Popular pizzeria adds automatic surcharge leaving customers with no choice but to pay up

[GURPS]

The small print at the bottom of the menu now reads: “To ensure we are able to provide a living wage for all our team members, there is a 20 percent living wage fee added to all checks.

It continues: “100 percent of these monies are distributed to all our hourly employees. If you wish to tip an additional sum that will also be dispersed to all hourly employees.”

The restaurant considered making up a wage increase by raising menu prices and doing away with tips, but owners thought the surcharge was more transparent.

The restaurant also does not expect customers to tip beyond the 20 percent fee.

Popular pizzeria adds automatic fee to customers' bills

A POPULAR pizzeria has begun adding a 20 percent surcharge to all dining-in receipts. The owner says the decision enables the restaurant to pay all of its workers a living wage. Pizzeria Toro …

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Umm ... just pay them a decent wage, do not fake out the customers with a ' surcharge ' on top of the bill

 

[DaSDGuy]

"If you wish to tip an additional sum that will also be dispersed to all hourly employees.”

I tip my server, not all of your hourly employees.

 

[SamSpade]

"If you wish to tip an additional sum that will also be dispersed to all hourly employees.”

I tip my server, not all of your hourly employees.

Exactly. What's the point of a tip? Why not just sit the employees outside with a box on the ground?

 

[CPUSA]

Again...They fought to get $15.00/hr. I have been worn down with "$15.00/hr Federal Minimum Wage!!!"
Even ALL of the Federal & State lawmakers PROMISED me this would be the new minimum wage....and many Dems/Libs won their races on this promise.
Didn't happen? Never was gonna happen? Sorry... STILL not tipping anyone, anymore....don't like it? Go fight with your newly elected Representative that promised you your living wage. I'm KEEPING my promise I made to you to cut your tips out, since you could fight your own fight...now go get me more water & butter!!!

 

[Hijinx]

Customers do have a choice other than paying up.
They can find another pizzeria

 

[vraiblonde]

This is the most liberal Democrat thing ever. "We want to virtue signal and we want you to pay for it."

That pizza place can pay their employees anything they want - any business can. All of them right now can pay their employees $15 an hour, or $20 an hour, or $1000 an hour. Yet they don't. They want the government to make a law for something they say they want but won't do voluntarily.

They could have simply raised their prices and paid their employees accordingly, AND let them keep their tips. But they didn't.

 

[OccamsRazor]

They could have simply raised their prices and paid their employees accordingly, AND let them keep their tips. But they didn't.

Ahh.. but raising their prices increases their overall intake which reflects on their tax burden.
By doing it this way, their tax burden remains constant and it essentially passes the responsibility of increasing their worker's pay to the consumer or customer.
Its a win-win for the business although a very sh!tty way of doing it.

 

[CPUSA]

Its a win-win for the business although a very sh!tty way of doing it.

Right up until the point where they have to shutter the doors due to no business....
I'll give it 6 months...

 

[Sneakers]

Wonder what it cost to print up all of those new menus?

 

[Tech]

Wonder what it cost to print up all of those new menus?

20%

So raised their prices by 20%

 

[HemiHauler]

Ahh.. but raising their prices increases their overall intake which reflects on their tax burden.
By doing it this way, their tax burden remains constant

You are assuming costs of goods remain constant. The tax burden is based on profit, not gross receipts.

They are are simply doing it to transfer the burden of (ostensibly) raising their employees standard of living directly to the consumer since margins in this sort of business are already vafer thin.

The only reason we are hearing about it is so they can make the news cycle.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

You are assuming costs of goods remain constant. The tax burden is based on profit, not gross receipts.

They are are simply doing it to transfer the burden of (ostensibly) raising their employees standard of living directly to the consumer since margins in this sort of business are already vafer thin.

The only reason we are hearing about it is so they can make the news cycle.

Wondering if sales tax goes onto a surcharge.

 

[HemiHauler]

Wondering if sales tax goes onto a surcharge.

Sales tax is for goods, not a surcharge.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Sales tax is for goods, not a surcharge.

So it nets them 6-7% more than if they just raised prices by that much.