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Restaurant Goes Viral For Adding Extra Charge To Pay For Workers’ Insurance (atlantadailyworld.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the Atlanta Daily World:

Photo: Getty Images A local Atlanta restaurant has received violent threats for adding a 4 percent charge to customers’ bills to pay for its employees’ health insurance, WSB reports. Owners of Jenchan’s, a pizza and Chinese restaurant in “Cabbage Town” Atlanta, said the extra 4 percent allows them to provide health insurance for their full-time … Continued

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need a law that the price stated is the total price like in Europe, including tax, tip, fees, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Or force them to show all price components.

50 cent for meat, 1 dollar for the staff, 3 dollars for the boss, etc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

The question should be, if you can’t take care of your workers, why should you be allowed to go into business in the first place?

Also, this bullshit of making the customer/consumer responsible for basic business principles needs to end, now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If it's not a scam then add 4% to the prices on the menu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

...why not simply raise your prices to some level where you can afford to pay your employees? Pawning all the individual costs as separate line items on customer receipts will just run people off to better-managed restaurants.

If I go to a restaurant and have anything more than my food + a tip (which I can choose myself) + taxes show up on my bill, I'll happily dispute the bonus charges with a manager or my credit cards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's because that would earn them another $$$ sign on Google maps or similar. They want to lure in customers with seemingly low prices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Alamo Drafthouse I went to recently does something like this as well, though it was 18%. They explicitly call it out as not being a tip, so feel free to tip more.