Gators Dockside Charging Obamacare Surcharge
I’ve eaten at Gator’s Dockside. The wings are pretty good, but the restaurant desperately needs an update. The place is dingy, too green, dirty carpets, and a slight funk in the air that comes with spilt beer and dirty mop water. Now I hear that they are going to start charging customers an extra 1% on the meal bills to cover Obamacare. If I return, to play GoldenTee, drink a brew or eat wings, I will be subtracting the additional surcharge from the server’s tips. I’ll explain after the quote from ClickOrlando here:
Customers of some Gator’s Dockside restaurants in Central Florida are now being charged more to cover worker health care costs.
A 1 percent surcharge had been added to checks at Gator’s Dockside restaurants in Clermont, Eustis, The Villages and Lakeland, informing customers that the cost will cover health insurance that the owners will be required to provide for employees under the Affordable Care Act.
“We just want to be transparent with that cost. We want everyone to know this is what its going towards,” said Clermont Gator’s Dockside General Manager Chayse Neal. “We’re not increasing costs just because. It is a fee that we’re paying.”
The participating restaurants say without the extra income, they would be forced to cut employee hours. …
Managers say the surcharge won’t cover the entire cost of the health care increase, but the mandate has forced restaurants to hire human resources representatives and an outside compliance firm to handle extra paperwork.
This mandate is exactly what all of the young people voted for in the past two elections. Starry-eyed from the promise of hope and change, these young people put Obama into office, crammed the Obamacare law through congress, to the cheers of the young college graduates who earn their degrees in liberal colleges and have to wait tables to pay off the student loans. They want to charge extra for their own utopian goals? Screw ’em. I hope they lose business and they have to fire the lot of them. I might go back to Gator’s Dockside just to see the looks on their faces when I explain why I won’t tip them.
