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[h=1]Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation[/h]
Florida based restaurant boss John Metz, who runs approximately 40 Denny's and owns the Hurricane Grill & Wings franchise has decided to offset that by adding a five percent surcharge to customers' bills and will reduce his employees' hours.

In zee teeth. No free lunch boxes.

Parasite Nation comes with costs... fewer jobs... hidden taxes... everywhere.

But it's freeeeeeeeeee! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Wrong numb nuts. It's Aints free.
 
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Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

There is nothing on Denny's website about this, and the only link I could find led back to the article cited in the OP.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

There is nothing on Denny's website about this, and the only link I could find led back to the article cited in the OP.

It's not "Dennys" but a guy that owns 40 Denny's franchises.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.

Money doesn't grow on trees, therefore someone, eventually, will have to pay for it. When you tax businesses, that is passed onto the consumer. This guy is just putting it on your receipt, instead of bumping the price on the pancakes. It happens with other businesses too.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.

As if the business man is just supposed to absorb the increased cost of running his business. Forcing businesses to do something costs money and as such they will offset that cost. Shocking! Its funny though that you think the party forcing people to provide something to others is the good guy though. :lamo

And you can just pay for your single payer crap on your little own.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

In zee teeth. No free lunch boxes.

Parasite Nation comes with costs... fewer jobs... hidden taxes... everywhere.

But it's freeeeeeeeeee! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Wrong numb nuts. It's Aints free.

Nothing is ever free. Anybody who thought that is dumb.

Interestingly, it's one franchisee. I wonder if anybody will notice that other locations are cheaper?
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

Nothing is ever free. Anybody who thought that is dumb.

Interestingly, it's one franchisee. I wonder if anybody will notice that other locations are cheaper?

That will not happen.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.

The government isn't providing anything--remember Obamacare supposedly saves the government money--the only way that happens is if the private market is providing everyone healthcare i.e. employers and people who have healthcare already whose premiums will be going up. Dems can't have it both ways ....
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

What! This is why we need single payer completely socialized medicine? Say it's not so, who'd have thought, I'd never would have imagined that's what obamafarce is suppose to lead us too.

This post really should enlighten people about the left. Suggesting the govt is good and the evil business is bad. And that some how the cost of health care for those the industry has already said we can't afford to cover should just be free. I hope you, the poster, are also going to tell doctors and nurses they should make less too?


It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

Money doesn't grow on trees, therefore someone, eventually, will have to pay for it. When you tax businesses, that is passed onto the consumer. This guy is just putting it on your receipt, instead of bumping the price on the pancakes. It happens with other businesses too.

So why don't business owners support going single payer? Why should business continued to be burdened with providing healthcare? This guy should be at the head of the pack moving on congress and the president to set them free.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's not "Dennys" but a guy that owns 40 Denny's franchises.

So it is.

And, he's cutting back employees to 30 hours so he doesn't have to provide health insurance to them. I'm not sure why he'd have to charge customers an extra 5% as well, since he's getting out of providing health insurance. Maybe he has to make a boat payment or something.

I guess his employees will still have to go to the emergency room and stick the paying customers with the bill, just as they did before Obomneycare became law. What a great system we have.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

So why don't business owners support going single payer? Why should business continued to be burdened with providing healthcare? This guy should be at the head of the pack moving on congress and the president to set them free.

You realize that is them still paying for it, right?
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

Money doesn't grow on trees, therefore someone, eventually, will have to pay for it. When you tax businesses, that is passed onto the consumer. This guy is just putting it on your receipt, instead of bumping the price on the pancakes. It happens with other businesses too.

He is going to quickly find that people can vote with their feet too. His customers are going to go eleswhere.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

You realize that is them still paying for it, right?

It wouldn't have to be. Obviously, someone still has to pay, but it wouldn't have to be the employers. Talk about a tax on job creators, health care has to be one of the major ones.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

He is going to quickly find that people can vote with their feet too. His customers are going to go eleswhere.

Where they will be doing the same thing. This isn't even a hard concept to understand people. Costs do not get absorbed. Honestly, this stupid crap about how people will just revolt when the same crap applies to everyone that will compete against him is just down right idiotic.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

gina said:
So why don't business owners support going single payer? Why should business continued to be burdened with providing healthcare? This guy should be at the head of the pack moving on congress and the president to set them free.
He is going to quickly find that people can vote with their feet too. His customers are going to go eleswhere.

With individuals having that choice, they can vote with their feet. With single payer, they can't avoid it. It will be baked into everything via taxes on all at all levels.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy,

Government is inserting itself into the free market because a few people fail to pay insurance. And what great things have government done???

If we had government in the computer business... we would be using Commodore 64's.

The government is taking and spreading it around... they are farking the healthcare system in the process. Go to a socialist EU country and tell me their system is better... it ain't... even... close.

and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.
You have NO idea what business is about. It is not a charity... businesses survive when they make a lot of profit... then they can hire to grow and expand. You tax them...YOU PAY THE TAX!!!! YOU PAY THE TAX!!!! YOU... ALWAYS YOU... FOREVER... YOU.

This is something our school systems have failed to teach... LIFE 101.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.
facepalm... You JUST DO NOT GIT IT DO YOU????????????????????????????????????

Libs are from Mars... Republicans from Planet Earth.

Hail to Parasite Nation... Hail!!!
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

This is only the beginning folks... Now that business owners know for sure that Obamacare won't be repealed, you can expect to see a lot more price increases, layoffs, weekly hours being cut and benefit reductions taking place all across the country...

Because like they say, elections do have consequences.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

He is going to quickly find that people can vote with their feet too. His customers are going to go eleswhere.

No they won't.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

With individuals having that choice, they can vote with their feet. With single payer, they can't avoid it. It will be baked into everything via taxes on all at all levels.

I would welcome single payer and it's lower costs. You all keep saying we all pay so why not pay less?
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

So why don't business owners support going single payer? Why should business continued to be burdened with providing healthcare? This guy should be at the head of the pack moving on congress and the president to set them free.

Let's look at that....

In this system he has to raise prices to cover the premiums he has to pay for his employee's healthcare.

In a single payer system he has to raise prices to cover the increase in what he has to pay his employees to make up for the additional tax money that's being taken from them to pay for the single-payer system.

EITHER WAY the price of his product has to go UP to cover the costs.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.

Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.
I tend to agree, but I would suggest that these people's reactions are an indication at how flawed and uneven the current system will be.

I also agree that we will eventually get a single-payer system, but we'll have to go through a bunch more bureaucratic crap to get there. All Obamacare will do is delay the inevitable. At least 4 years (I predict 10-15 yrs) as the Obama administration will never admit that its own system fails in any way.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

This is only the beginning folks... Now that business owners know for sure that Obamacare won't be repealed, you can expect to see a lot more price increases, layoffs, weekly hours being cut and benefit reductions taking place all across the country...

Because like they say, elections do have consequences.

Exactly. My Union goes into negotiations for a new contract right after the first of the year.... I can almost GUARANTEE you that one of their proposals will be to give us a couple extra dollars an hour to get rid of our healthcare system, starting in 2014.
 
Re: Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with co

He is going to quickly find that people can vote with their feet too. His customers are going to go eleswhere.

Not just customers, but employees. If this jagoff is only giving up 30 hrs./week and Appleby's is offering 40 hrs./week and health insurance, I wonder where the best employees are going to go?

Let's also not forget that the main provisions of ACA don't even go into effect until 2014, so there is no rational justification for this.
 
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