Originally Posted by
Hank Moody
My friction point is the 4% surcharge. Since when does the price of an item not include all components of business overhead? Restaurant owners should "man-up" and adjust retail prices to cover these costs rather than hiding them into the fine print at the bottom of the menu.
The fact that the idea of some kind of "mandated tax" keeps popping up in this thread means that the restaurant owners' disinformation campaign is working. Instead of paying and providing minimal benefits for their employees, and setting prices accordingly, the restaurant can set artificially low prices and bamboozle less-informed Patrons into thinking there's some kind of city or state mandated surcharge.
It's the Fox News effect, if people see disinformation often enough, they start to believe it's real.