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Now on your restaurant bill: Obamacare fee

Is this being sincere?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 26.7%

  • No

    Votes: 10 66.7%

  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Total voters
    15
grip said:
Yes, I would gladly pay a penny more, think Micky D's is gonna do it?
Think Walmart would raise prices to increase workers benefits or salaries?
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Well! Interesting! WalMart does almost the same as McDonald's daily: 7.2 billion transactions. Put a one-penny surcharge on every transaction, and they'd generate quite a nice piece of change!!
 
MaggieD said:
This really got me to thinking...

McDonald's serves 7.4 billion people a day. If McDonald's would raise the price of service by one penny per customer, that would generate $704,000 per day x 365 = $256,000,000 per year to pay for their employee's health insurance. Think they could manage? I do. Think you could pay a lousy penny more??
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I doubt McDonald's makes a penny off a $1 item. Big doesn't equate to profitable and McDonalds are franchises, meaning independently owns for which the size of McDonalds isn't exactly relevant in my opinion. Or did you mean customers could pay a penny more?

A penny is not going to cover employee health insurance. McDonalds has 500,000 employees in the USA. 1,700,000 million worldwide. I'd try to calculate that per employee but I'd get messed up with all the zeros.
 
MaggieD said:
This really got me to thinking...

McDonald's serves 7.4 billion people a day. If McDonald's would raise the price of service by one penny per customer, that would generate $704,000 per day x 365 = $256,000,000 per year to pay for their employee's health insurance. Think they could manage? I do. Think you could pay a lousy penny more??
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Actually, that would be $75 million a day, though I dont think they serve that many people a day. I'm not even sure there are that many people on the planet.
 
joko104 said:
I doubt McDonald's makes a penny off a $1 item. Big doesn't equate to profitable and McDonalds are franchises, meaning independently owns for which the size of McDonalds isn't exactly relevant in my opinion. Or did you mean customers could pay a penny more?

A penny is not going to cover employee health insurance. McDonalds has 500,000 employees in the USA. 1,700,000 million worldwide. I'd try to calculate that per employee but I'd get messed up with all the zeros.
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Showing one penny as a surcharge for employee health insurance wouldn't cause too many people to get upset. Lordy. And, of course, they're already providing health insurance for many/most of their employees, so the surcharge would relate to the ACA. *shrug* It doesn't sound like much when one breaks it down this way, does it?
 
MaggieD said:
Well! Interesting! WalMart does almost the same as McDonald's daily: 7.2 billion transactions. Put a one-penny surcharge on every transaction, and they'd generate quite a nice piece of change!!
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But that's not corporate mentality. They see the employee as the enemy.

When I taught people how to sell products, I always told them to start out with the highest priced items that they could, so they could negotiate downwards from there. Because if they started too low in pricing, there was nowhere else to go if the buyer wanted a lower price to haggle over.

It's the same with big companies. They want to negotiate employees at a lower starting salary, not higher, so they keep them at the most minimum base pay, possible.
 
sangha said:
Actually, that would be $75 million a day, though I dont think they serve that many people a day. I'm not even sure there are that many people on the planet.
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Like-Like-Like!!!! I just knew!!!! I was doing something wrong. Population of the world: 7.046 billion. McDonald's serves 1% of them every day, or 70,460,000 x one penny x 365 = $2,571,790 per year.

Never mind.
 
grip said:
That's my point about being sincere. Why not just raise the prices, rather than make an issue about charging more for ACA? It's a political statement, though the restaurant owner claims it's not.
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Because people need to know why prices are rising. It's not greed, ok, it is but not by the owners. If Minimum wage is increased, they should put a minimum wage sure charge.
 
grip said:
There's a Florida based, restaurant chain that says 'they're only trying to get people to help foot the bill for full time employees, healthcare mandate'.




Restaurants charging Obamacare fee - Feb. 27, 2014
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I read this earlier, I think it is pretty cool. I do not think most people realize all the additional taxes coming our way to help pay for Obamacare.
 
grip said:
Yes, I would gladly pay a penny more, think Micky D's is gonna do it?
Think Walmart would raise prices to increase workers benefits or salaries?
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With McDonald's it would be a mess. Corporate would have to take in the money then give it back to the franchisees to cover the costs.

I don't think the IRS would like all that money moving around like that.
 
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