Dennys

[ki0ho]

Afterseeing it a couple of times about dennys charging a 5% ser cahrge .....Im thinking that is the way to go.....at least half of them voted for o-slimmy ....they might as well pay for it!!!!!what say you?

 

[tiredretired]

We only have one Denny's up here and it is 50 miles away so needless to say I am not a regular. As for the surcharge, I do not blame them in the least, however all else being equal, I will eat somewhere that does not charge it. The money looks better in my pocket

 

[Doc]

All businesses that want to stay in business will be raising prices or changing packaging size so you get less but pay the same. Most will not advertise it as happening because of Obamacare like Dennys did but it will happen just the same.

 

[joec]

And when the price comes down as expected the won't go back to the old rates either. I haven't stepped foot in a Denny's in 15 years as we have great Cracker Barrels here and no sir charges there besides the food is better.

 

[waybomb]

And anyplace that has any price at all listed, they should do a slight cost-breakout, one line normal cost, the next line of "corporate taxes" that as we all know, the consumer pays, and finally the total.

So these idiots learn who's paying the increased taxes.

 

[muleman]

I think that is one franchisee who owns 50 some restaurants. Still it is inevitable that the cost will be passed on to the consumer. And the package shrinking game is in full swing already. Get ready for massive inflation by the early spring when the small corn crop and other things really start hitting producers. Beef and pork will also jump dramatically.

 

[FrancSevin]

There is no question, consumers are in for a ride.

Obama will just blame Bush.

 

[JEV]

And when the price comes down as expected...

I love your sense of humor, Joe. That's really rich.

 

[joec]

I love your sense of humor, Joe. That's really rich.

I'm glad you enjoyed it Joe. It really was meant to be sarcastic. A simple fact is the private for profit insurance companies are still in charge so the price will never come down. It might slow down but never as long as profit is the motive.

 

[tommu56]

Denny's is just making it a line item so you see it and it isn't hidden.
I don't blame them and it is sort of a good political statement and good business tactic as long as it expresses before you order.

If it isn't a line item then it just gets hidden with the other taxes and overhead in the bill that you have been paying for the last half century.

You have been paying all along in my opinion now they are informing you about it.

At the bowling alley I worked at as a teenager (40 years ago) the Twp. had a amusement tax and the only place were you got "AMUSED" in the Twp. was at the bowling alley. They had a line on the register receipt and printed it out right above the state sales tax.

 

[JEV]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Joe. It really was meant to be sarcastic. A simple fact is the private for profit insurance companies are still in charge so the price will never come down. It might slow down but never as long as profit is the motive.

you say this like profit is a dirty word. If your mini storage doesn't make a profit, then the doors are either closed or someone has to subsidize it to meet bills/expenses, which at that point it might as well close. Profit is factored into all of my work, otherwise I might as well close the doors and go get me a nice welfare package from Santa Claus. On second thought...

 

[joec]

you say this like profit is a dirty word. If your mini storage doesn't make a profit, then the doors are either closed or someone has to subsidize it to meet bills/expenses, which at that point it might as well close. Profit is factored into all of my work, otherwise I might as well close the doors and go get me a nice welfare package from Santa Claus. On second thought...

Different business based on differ things. One is making a profit off of betting on you staying well and often dumping you when you get sick or at best try to cut costs by deigning service one might need or fight you till you die and never pay off. The other in my case storage is renting a place to store the junk people have accumulated and now need to store it some where else do to their limited place. Now I have no problem with some insurances such as life, car, homeowners etc. However if you take the profit motive out of health care the costs come down as Medicare, VA etc are cheaper costs with better results than for profit insurance. That is my whole problem with Obamacare as it just made some rules for the for profit insurance companies but still let them burn you with costs. I would of been more for paying a % of income for Medicare type insurance for all. I have to laugh when I hear Obamacare is socialism as it isn't even close. Insurance companies still privately owned, doctors are self employed, hospitals still make a profit etc.

So nothing wrong with making a profit but not on someone suffering because of it either.

 

[FrancSevin]

Different business based on differ things. One is making a profit off of betting on you staying well and often dumping you when you get sick or at best try to cut costs by deigning service one might need or fight you till you die and never pay off. The other in my case storage is renting a place to store the junk people have accumulated and now need to store it some where else do to their limited place. Now I have no problem with some insurances such as life, car, homeowners etc. However if you take the profit motive out of health care the costs come down as Medicare, VA etc are cheaper costs with better results than for profit insurance. That is my whole problem with Obamacare as it just made some rules for the for profit insurance companies but still let them burn you with costs. I would of been more for paying a % of income for Medicare type insurance for all. I have to laugh when I hear Obamacare is socialism as it isn't even close. Insurance companies still privately owned, doctors are self employed, hospitals still make a profit etc.

So nothing wrong with making a profit but not on someone suffering because of it either.

The medical industry does not make a profit on people suffering. It makes a profit by reducing that suffering. There is no difference between youhouse being rebuilt or your heart because you bought homeowners insurance or heath insurance. None.

The difference of Obamacare is that you must buy insurance. And now that it is defined as a tax it is entirely government controled and admisnitered, even if it use private entities.

For instance the military is government controled but uses private contractors.

The other difference of Obamacare is that the entire industry is regulated, includingwhat may or may not be required coverage. If it is not socialism, and I'll grant you, by definition it isn't, then it is Facism. Or Corporatism.

Whatever it is, it is loss of individual freedom. Which is always theresult of the provision of postive rights. Positive rights exist in monarchies, dictatorships, communisms and despot governments. All as a matter of structure because the government owns all and provides all.

Not supposed to be so in Democratic Republics.

Positive rights are the foundation of socialistic governence. Hence the comparison ofthe program to socialism.

Call it by want ever label you want, it isn't what We the People first agreed to in the original covenants. Fact of life,,,the original covenant did not include one single positive right. Not one.

 

[FrancSevin]

PAPPA JOHN'S SMALL BUSINESS COST OF OBAMACARE EXPLAINED.

Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter is in trouble with the Left because, like several business owners since the re-election of the Man Who Would Be King, he has said he must reduce employee hours and possibly lay off workers to deal with the costs of Obamacare and the increasing number of regulations coming out of the Obama Administration.
The Left’s knee-jerk response has been to call for a boycott because Schnatter is wealthy and therefore he should just absorb any increase costs. Or the other analysis floating around the leftist blogs and places like Forbes is that Obamacare would only mean an increase of 14 cents per pizza, therefore Schnatter is just being evil, conservative and political.
Schnatter has said Obamacare could cost up to $8 million per year. The Left’s argument goes that $8 million is just a “drop in the bucket” for a company with total operating expenses of $1.131 billion last year.
A little analysis of the numbers published by Forbes, however, reveals a slightly different picture.
Papa John’s had total revenue of $1.218 billion last year, according to Forbes. That means a total profit of $87 million. Sounds pretty good, right?
According to Forbes, Papa John’s has more than 4,000 stores worldwide. Divide that $87 million by 4,000 and you get a per-store average profit of only $21,750.

Now, assuming Obamacare only applies to U.S. stores, then if we knew Papa John’s total U.S. stores (which Forbes doesn’t mention), we should be able to figure out per-store additional cost to U.S. franchisees.
Just for the sake of argument, let’s guess that half the franchises are in the U.S. Let’s also assume the upper estimate of $8 million by Schnatter is correct, then that would be an additional $4,000 cost per store on average, bringing average per-store profit annually down to $17,750.
I’m not familiar with all the ins and outs of owning a franchise, but I assume that $17,750 profit gets divided between Papa Schnatter, shareholders and the actual franchise owner.
That’s not enough money to feed a family, and that’s why Obamacare hurts small businesses and the middle class.
That’s what the Left doesn’t get. And that’s why re-electing Obama is going to kill this country.


Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/8117/e...oycott-and-the-lefts-obamamath/#ixzz2CPgGuqgV

I DISAAGREE WITH SOME OF THE MATH. OBAMACARE WILL COST A MNIMUM OF $2000 PER EMPLOYEE. $4,000 PER FRANCHISE WOULD MEAN ONLY 2 EMPLOYEES PER FRANCHISE.

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[mla2ofus]

Well, Frank, those two emplyees will be managers and all the rest will work less than 30 hrs.
Mike