If it's $.35 per ticket, just wait until a group of people start asking for "separate checks." I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

I always laugh at the people railing against corporate profits in one sentence then complain in the next about their 401K going down.

2 things: 1) Kudos to the cafe ownership for finding an inventive way to cover the cost offset. Cafe could have probably just raised the price of every item by .5 to .10 and no one would have noticed this. I like that they made it blatant. 2) The article stated it was a thirty-five-cent fee to meal tabs.....If you cant afford or are the enraged by a mere .35 about 1/3 of a dollar, then you probably shouldn't be eating out in the first place. This is not cause to flame the cafe and encourage people to boycott the establishment

The taxman is a cunning and evil monster. This is the same reasoning behind withholding. Out of sight, out of mind...

Blind people compensate with other senses. These are just stupid morons (perhaps redundant, but how do you say morons squared?)

You own a small business? You didn't build that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzd40i8...
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Every year I'd watch the apartment dwellers in my neighborhood vote for bond after bond after bond, saying, "Stick it to the property owners - they can afford it and it's for a good cause".
Then they noticed the prices going up, rent going up, gas going up, and wondered, "What the heck is happening?"

Are our people so utterly BLIND that they do not realize how these things work?

No sales tax in my state. I would prefer a sales tax to state income tax however.

It IS us against them... most people just don't know it. If they have to find out over dinner then so be it. Wake up calls are never easy no matter when the slap across the face happens.

I've also heard it said, "You can't handle the truth!"
This mantra seems more common collectively.

What he really meant is implied by the word "directly". He doesn't give a rats ass about passing the cost on to customers, he just doesn't want the customer to know why.

I bet the idiots who are complaining are bad tippers, they are complaining about 35 cents? I bet the waitresses at that place do more work in a day than Mr. Council for UNITE HERE unions does in an entire year.

They say "the truth will set you free." In this case it states how un-free things really are.

you are right about that. however, he just should have raised his prices and that would have been that. he was probably concerned that customers would stay away. if that happened so be it. or maybe he preferred the notoriety.

"Putting (minimum wage) fees on tickets and passing the cost on to consumers directly is strange at best,..." Huh...???!!! Wade...where the he'll do you think an additional cost like this is going to come from dumbass? Good Lord, it is astonishing what passes for intelligence these days. However I think Wade here is nothing more than a commie and expects to give out other people's money without anyone being able to see where it comes from.

I luv it when the libs are slapped with reality of their actions. My bet is that most of those who bitched about the fee being listed on their tab are lefties who thought it was a great idea to increase the minimum wage.
This business owner has the right idea, show the folks why prices go up.
The union guy? He's clueless, that's why he collects his paycheck from the clueless union members. He couldn't do anything else in life that didn't involve mooching from other folks. Typical union organizer, sorta like O.

True, but most sales taxes are voted on by the people themselves - state by state. They already know about it.

What I was getting at was to do more like what this restaurant vendor did and itemize out even the obscure taxes - like the ones hotels charge for water and hospitality fees. Etc.

Hmmm. Charge a fee or fire workers. Seems fair to me. Actions have consequences and I don't see anything wrong informing customers of the reason behind the action.

This is the method they use to blame the free-market after the enviable negative consequences of their additional taxes. And it works! Of course they want to hide it.

Why complain? We are conditioned to see the separate charge for sales tax on our restaurant bill, but not any other additional tax, such as federal. I wonder if modern registers can be programmed to print, "Federal minimum wage surcharge?"

That hasn't happened with sales taxes; people are so accustomed to seeing that on every bill.
Having been overseas for 3 years, adding the sales tax does irritate me now on every purchase. In NZ and OZ all the taxes are built in to the price, hiding the reason for price increases from customers.

I also have to applaud the business owner for calling it like it is. Can you imagine if all businesses line-itemized their fees and charges with taxes and administration overhead labeled very clearly on the price tag? People would be calling for an end to those taxes very quickly.

This debate going viral will, I hope, bring more customers to the restaurant. Some others will boycott, but I think only a few. The only choice the boycott would create is to select another restaurant which is HIDING the increase in the menu.
This one restaurant's action has made all the other restaurants' hidden increases visible. Kudos!

That statement amused me as well. I think what he meant was, "The owner shouldn't be passing the cost on to customers, he should be taking a hit to his bottom line."