Restaurant Customers OUTRAGED Over Unexpected Surcharge

As I suspected, it is mostly false. From Snopes


Claim: The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant chain has added a new surcharge in order to cover the cost of Obamacare.


TRUE: Buffalo Wild Wings in one city briefly added a surcharge to customers' bills to cover the costs of the Affordable Care Act.
FALSE: The Buffalo Wild Wings chain has added an Obamacare surcharge at all their restaurants.

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Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2015]

Is this true? Obamacare surcharge at popular Buffalo wild wings?


Origins: In January 2015, numerous customers at a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Lubbock, Texas, were upset to find a new Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) surcharge tacked onto their bills:


The surcharge was implemented at Buffalo Wild Wings locations owned by the Howard Restaurant Group in Lubbock, Texas. Samantha Spitzer, director of marketing for Howard Restaurant Group, said in a statement that the surcharge was meant to cover the cost of the Affordable Healthcare Act (commonly known as "Obamacare"): Due to the Affordable Healthcare Act and its requirement of healthcare coverage to all full-time employees, our restaurant group has decided instead of cutting employee hours and raising food and beverage prices, to implement a two percent surcharge on all guest checks to offset the cost of the federally mandated employee healthcare with the least possible impact to the consumer.
On 9 January 2015, Eater reported that the Howard Restaurant Group decided to remove the surcharge after receiving several customer complaints. Heather Leiferman, Director of Public Relations for Buffalo Wild Wings, added in a statement that the decision to add the 2% surcharge was made by a local franchise owner and did not affect other restaurants around the country: The health care surcharge at our franchised Buffalo Wild Wings in Lubbock, Texas, has been removed. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused. Our priority is to always provide our guests a great experience every day so they can enjoy our wings, beer and sports.
The Buffalo Wild Wings in Lubbock wasn't the only restaurant to add an Affordable Care Act surcharge in January 2015. According to CNN Money, several restaurants in Florida have also started charging customers extra to cover the cost of the ACA.

"Mostly False"....but it's happening and most likely has been going on a long, long time.....:hmm:
 
I can see why restaurants want to do this.....there just has to be better oversight and as this becomes more and more the reality nationwide, oversight should be right on it's heels....
 
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