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LuckyCharms

(22,645 posts)
3. Costs of doing business are normally baked into your pricing structure
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:21 PM
Jul 2023

and not called out line by line on a customer receipt or invoice.

This is either weird, tacky, scammy or all three.

I don't understand the world anymore.

 

jimfields33

(19,382 posts)
11. It's Los Angeles. Most are rich especially going to that restaurant.
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 09:00 PM
Jul 2023

I’m cool with it. You get to chose whether to go out to eat or stay home and cook.

mercuryblues

(16,409 posts)
4. That's what hateful conservatives do
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:24 PM
Jul 2023

When they are pissed about having to provide healthcare to the people who earn them money, instead of being an adult and adjust menu prices accordingly.

IOW they are trump's base.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,710 posts)
5. I'd pay it the first time
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:25 PM
Jul 2023

then never eat there again.

Just raise the damned prices if necessary and move on.

Donkees

(33,703 posts)
6. The restaurant also has a 'water works program' ...
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:32 PM
Jul 2023
The restaurant also has a 'water works program' where a portion of the $1.50 donation towards still or sparkling water is given to SLRC, the Silver Lake Reservoir Conservancy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12267705/LA-restaurant-hits-diners-4-charge-cover-staff-HEALTH-INSURANCE.html

Igel

(37,535 posts)
7. Sorry, when I lived in LA Silver Lakes was "drive by country".
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:49 PM
Jul 2023

Not sure I could afford to breathe there.

Much less park.

Or actually eat there, unless I brown bagged and was taken for homeless and drunk, eating my food discretely and letting people think I was consuming Olde English or whatever the current brown-bag beverage is.

Gordon Ramsey is entertainment in process, not daily dining. I'm only middle class.

Ms. Toad

(38,634 posts)
8. They should just raise their prices by 4%.
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 07:56 PM
Jul 2023

Worker insurance is part of the cost of doing business - not something that should depend on the generosity of customers. Build out into the price charged to customers.

As far as in concerned, the same practice should also be followed for tips.

50 Shades Of Blue

(11,389 posts)
9. I think it's really shitty to leave their employees' health insurance coverage up to the whims
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 08:12 PM
Jul 2023

of diners.

Shermann

(9,062 posts)
10. It would be a distraction
Fri Jul 7, 2023, 08:39 PM
Jul 2023

Customers are going to focus on that time and time again while cashing out and create a distraction that doesn't really help anybody.

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