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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the Atlanta Tribune:

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 employees, who work 35 hours or more. “We have […]

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[–] DestroyerOfWorlds 16 points 7 months ago

ran into this shit at "Michelin" restaurant (in fine print after we were seated.) same reaction as most: fold it into the total cost and stop trying to virtue signal this bullshit. congrats you are doing the bare minimum good for your employees, stop patting yourself on the back for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It should be mandatory to write on the bill the part that goes to the owners.... tips and insurance are so meager in comparison

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'd be annoyed to see that in my bill too. I expect the price quoted to me to be the price I have to pay. If it says 9.99 for a plate of chicken wings, I expect to pay 9.99 + tax + tip, if it comes back to me as 9.99 + 4% + tax + tip, I'd be annoyed, not for paying the 4% for being mislead about the price of the product I'm buying. Just make the price $10.99 and I wouldn't even notice it and that's a 10% increase. If they had just done a 4% price increase across the board then rounded to the nearest .99 it probably wouldn't have even gotten commented on. But trying to be shifty and hide the price hike behind a hidden fee... I'd never go back there.

[–] teegus 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd be pissed if tax wasn't included in the total price.. And if I was expexted to tip for that matter.