Billionaire behind Rainforest Cafe, Bubba Gump's: 'We can't afford' to give SF workers healthcare

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Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, sole owner of Landry's Inc., a corporation responsible for a number of recognizable chain restaurants including Claim Jumper, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Rainforest Cafe, and McCormick & Schmick's Seafood & Steaks, believes that San Francisco shouldn't mandate its restaurants to pay for city workers' healthcare.

In "Billion Dollar Buyer," a CNBC show in which the restaurateur stars, Fertitta says his businesses have to charge more for the same menu items because San Francisco requires some types of businesses to contribute to their workers' healthcare coverage.

"All these states now are doing their own mandates," Fertitta says. "Why should the city of San Francisco be able to do absolutely whatever they want to do?"

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Billionaire does NOT have enough money, that is the problem.

Every day people put up with this shit, we can expect to be treated like shit.

Nobody with that attitude should have a pot to piss in let alone a billion.

When will we wake up?

[Angry Dragon]

2. WINNER!!........

[Squinch]

3. He's pissed that the city of SF is doing "absolutely whatever they want to do" because it

means he can't do absolutely whatever HE wants to do.

This is a mind that thinks he's more important than a huge city full of people.

[onethatcares]

4. well, he is.

I mean how important can you be if you can roll around in dollar bills and change them as needed.

It's not like he'll ever need to worry about a blood test bill or anything like that.

[Bettie]

5. Greedy Asshole

that's what he is. He's got his and now he lives to screw others over.

[Initech]

7. I wonder - are all restaurant chain owners greedy assholes?

This guy is an asshole, Papa John is an asshole, the Dominoes Pizza guy is an asshole, does it go with the territory?

[Initech]

6. The only Rainforest Cafe where I live went out of business.

And if I'm in an area with a lot of restaurants, where BGSCs generally tend to be, they're the last place I would go. So that asshole won't get any of my business.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Assholes like this make me sick.

They want to be able to do whatever they please, but when other people, organizations or governments try to assert a little power, suddenly they start whining about the unfairness of it all. Suck it up you greedy piece of crap!