Photo: Getty Images A local Atlanta restaurant has received violent threats for adding a 4 percent charge to customers’ bills to pay for its employees’ health insurance, WSB reports. Owners of Jenchan’s, a pizza and Chinese restaurant in “Cabbage Town” Atlanta, said the extra 4 percent allows them t...
From the Atlanta Daily World:
Photo: Getty Images A local Atlanta restaurant has received violent threats for adding a 4 percent charge to customers’ bills to pay for its employees’ health insurance, WSB reports. Owners of Jenchan’s, a pizza and Chinese restaurant in “Cabbage Town” Atlanta, said the extra 4 percent allows them to provide health insurance for their full-time … Continued
...why not simply raise your prices to some level where you can afford to pay your employees? Pawning all the individual costs as separate line items on customer receipts will just run people off to better-managed restaurants.
If I go to a restaurant and have anything more than my food + a tip (which I can choose myself) + taxes show up on my bill, I'll happily dispute the bonus charges with a manager or my credit cards.
The Alamo Drafthouse I went to recently does something like this as well, though it was 18%. They explicitly call it out as not being a tip, so feel free to tip more.