Want some partisanship with that burger?

[ashling]

Florida Restaurant Charging Customers For Obamacare Costs That Don't Exist Yet

Though the restaurant blames the new surcharge on Obamacare, the employer mandate, which will require Gator's Dockside to provide coverage to 70 percent of its full-time employees, actually won't go into effect until 2015. Currently, only the restaurant's managers receive healthcare, according to CNN Money.

"The owner opted to do this so the customer can see the cost increase themselves," Chayse Nail, a general manager at the Clermont location, told The Huffington Post in a phone call. "If we added it to food costs, you’d be paying more on your food and sales taxes... it's not something we're doing to generate more profit."

In the past week, Gator's Dockside patrons have expressed some outrage about the policy.

"This is about making an angry statement & passing [the owner's] irritation on to every customer who eats there," writes Samantha M Phillips on the restaurant's Facebook page. "The approach is immature & unprofessional."


"Plenty of places sell wings and burgers and don't try to make political statements. I'll be taking my business to one of those restaurants from now on," writes Larry Ross.

---yeah, I didn't think so.

[Scuba]

1. Is that all it costs to provide healthcare? I'll gladly pay it.

How much for sick time? I'd really rather pay a surcharge for that than have servers working while sick.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Yup! I would gladly pay a little extra to know I'm being served by healthy people!

[madfloridian]

4. Employees don't get coverage until next year, or end of December 2014

[TlalocW]

3. Need an extra quarter on a $25 tab?

Yeah, I think I can swing that. Give your employees some healthcare.

TlalocW

[Earth_First]

5. Is that all?

This exposes much more about the type of employer here that refuses to cover employees pre-mandate over a fucking quarter of a dollar.

Pathetic.