That’s exactly what I was about to say. If you’re margins are that thin there’s no way you’re making enough to sustain the business. The owner wouldn’t be able to pay himself or his manager(s). These people are lying morons.
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Check out yelp by the way, they are getting slaughtered
Interesting about Yelp. It’s yet another example of a conservative vastly over estimating how popular their beliefs are.
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Supply side economics doesn’t describe reality in any meaningful way; it just reflects the over inflated egos of business owners.
It was sort of nice of this particular douche to announce his profound sense of entitlement to that extra $10,000 profit he claims to preserve with that ridiculous fee. Sensible businessmen aren’t usually quite so honest.
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No doubt that their big seller is “Shit on a Shingle.”
Trash love that stuff.
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And it’s an insult to your employees and customers.
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That’s an understatement. People are seriously going IN on that owner.
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What’s totally unfair is that other restaurants in Stillwater don’t have to raise their wages without broadcasting how big of an asshole their owner is.
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Soon to be: Under new management
It must be a pretty fancy hamburger to cost $9 AND an additional 50 cents for Jalapeno. I did not see any breakdown for possible increases in his rent, trash pickup, contributions to the owner’s own retirement plan, the Teatotalitarian who represents him in Congress, etc.
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What an insufferable douche bag. Just raise your prices and stop making dickish political statements at your employees expense.
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They take money from tips if the customer uses a credit card.
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I think they’re upset 'cause they’re looking forward to sitting down in a roomy comfortable booth and ordering up about 5,000 calories of carbs, trans fats, and beef. And then as they peruse the menu politics gets all up in their pork fed faces - and they lose their appetites. It can be a big disappointment to some people.
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Politics and business don’t mix. Any businessperson who inserts politics into their customers’ experience is just asking for a negative response.
As many have already pointed out if the manager had raised all of his prices by a fraction, they would have made up the 10k difference without pissing people off.
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BTW, the Strib is Star Tribue, not “Start” Tribune.
That’s how it is done in Germany and Japan, no tipping there, wait staff are paid by their employers, not left to beg from the customers.
Well, I suppose the surcharge does show that at least his workers are getting something, even if under protest from their boss, since the healthcare is actually mandated. Too bad for this poor sap that it says more about his politics that costs, as I don’t imagine he has a $.50 surcharge listed for “energy cost fee” or a $.20 “profit margin fee”.
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The wait staff is not making $8.00 an hour.
Minnesota’s Minimum Wage Tiers
Starting this August, Minnesota’s new minimum wage standards will begin phasing in over three steps:
•Large employers: $8.00 per hour starting on August 1, 2014; $9.00 on August 1, 2015; and $9.50 on August 1, 2016.
•Small employers: $6.50 per hour starting on August 1, 2014; $7.25 on August 1, 2015; and $7.75 on August 1, 2016.
•Training wage (for employees ages 18 and 19 for the first 90 consecutive days of employment): $6.50 starting on August 1, 2014; $7.25 on August 1, 2015; and $7.75 on August 1, 2016.
Two other wage tiers are created:
•Youth wage (workers under 18): $6.50 starting on August 1, 2014; $7.25 on August 1, 2015; and $7.75 on August 1, 2016.
•Hotel or resort workers under an Exchange Visitor non-immigrant visa for summer work who receive a lodging or food benefit: $7.25 starting on August 1, 2014; $7.50 on August 1, 2015; and $7.75 on August 1, 2016.
source: Minnesota Budget Project
http://www.mnbudgetproject.org/research-analysis/economic-security/poverty-income/about-the-minimum-wage
Just another reminder of why unions are necessary. It’s not about employees trying to screw a fair employer, it’s when asshats like Blueplate owners David Burley and Stephanie Shimp try and screw their employees at every turn.
Well, anyone who visits or lives in the area can vote with their feet.
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How woefully ignorant does one have to be on current American culture to not have foreseen the controversy this could spark?
Offsetting the cost with a very mild increase on menu items as an adjustment to current cost of doing business is what every rational business person should have and has done since time out of mind. It’s called “running a business”. I’d be fine paying an extra 10c per item to know support staff could afford to eat and pay rent, if I even noticed. A politically motivated and rather dickish surcharge is just a big F-U to those of us who support minimum wage increases and an even bigger F-U to his staff.
The owner is a well-known Tea-Bagger who lives in Wisconsin across the Saint Croix River from Stillwater.
He is also a bit of a jerk in person.
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