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But her point was invalid from the beginning seeing as the CEO for Denny's hasn't actually done anything like this, its only a franchise owner.
Actually, no. Her point was that the businessman who has made this decision is acting selfishly. It matters not one whit to that point what his title or actual role within the franchise is.
The epidemic continues. This is a travesty affecting businesses everywhere across the nation. Now Denny's is being hit with Obamacare. People working there are now going to have to pay the price and have their hours cut. They are going to be put into a bind. Denny's is going to be put into a bind. This is terrible.
Florida based restaurant boss John Metz, who runs approximately 40 Denny's and owns the Hurricane Grill & Wings franchise has decided to offset that by adding a five percent surcharge to customers' bills and will reduce his employees' hours.
With Obamacare due to be fully implemented in January 2014, Metz has justified his move by claiming it is 'the only alternative. I've got to pass on the cost to the customer.'
The fast-food business owner is set to hold meetings at his restaurants in December where he will tell employees, 'that because of Obamacare, we are going to be cutting front-of-the-house employees to under 30 hours, effective immediately.'
So that's 40 Denneys not all, if I'm not in Florida this means nothing
The point is that all businesses subject to this tax will not pay it, their customers will. Some, like this business owner, will be candid about it. Others will raise prices, cut hours, cut staff, serve smaller portions, or use cheaper ingredients, or some combination thereof and just not say anything.
And? They'd do the same if their water bill went up, or if the city charged more to take out the trash.
That's business.
If you can't absorb that kind of ebb and flow, then your operating margins must be pitifully small to begin with.
One of your skills as a business owner is how to offset various cost increases with smart decisions in other areas you do have control over. If you can't do that, then you aren't a very good business person.
One upside should be that if you have an employee who is unproductive because of some health issue they're complaining about, there is no reason why they won't be able to go get it taken care of. You'll have less loss of productivity due to employee ailments, less call outs, less general malaise. It's only all doom and gloom if you choose make it that way.
The ability to adapt is a primary skill of every good business owner.
So this guy has uninsured employees working for him, at subsistence wages..... the taxpayer is already subsidizing his employees, just like the taxpayer subsidizes Wal-Mart's employees.
All these businesses moving to implement cost increases, wage and hour reductions before "Obamacare" even goes into effect are looking to boost their bottom line and cash in, period.
"Workers" are only as useful as they remain useful. Once every manager realizes they can extract more for less, they do so.
In West Palm Beach, run of the mill restaurants like his are a dime a dozen. HE (not Obamacare) might end up putting HIMSELF out of business!
Crybabies. My Kleenex stock is skyrocketing.Those who have health insurance don`t care about those who don`t.Nothing new here just typical republican greed and selfishness.
Whoa whoa whoa.....so you don't want to pay a surcharge that helps these people get their health insurance?
You don't realize that business build thier costs into the prices of their products and services?
This isn't the public sector where money magically appears and you can't go out of business and you have a monopoly.
Actually, no. Her point was that the businessman who has made this decision is acting selfishly. It matters not one whit to that point what his title or actual role within the franchise is.
Oh I agree whole heartedly that the franchise owner is trying to screw everyone and get as much money as possible out of this. He won't have to pay anything until 2014, he's dropping the hours of his employees so he won't have to pay anything then, and he's still jacking up the prices like people are charging him now.
Its an obvious cash grab.
I'm just trying to get people to stop incorrectly assuming this is a nationwide Denny's thing. Her lambasting the CEO of Denny's is misplaced and being that he has done nothing in this respect it is invalid.
The need to go after the actual guy doing this though is completely and totally valid, and needed in my opinion
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