Gator’s Dockside, a restaurant in Florida is following in the footsteps of an L.A. French restaurant. Gator’s Dockside is adding a surcharge to every customer’s bill in order to pay for ObamaCARE. The ObamaCARE surcharge is being used to fund healthcare costs for it’s 500 employees.
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Sandra Clark, Director of Operations at Gator’s Dockside, told WRDQ that the restaurant is now adding a one percent surcharge to every customer’s bill to help pay for all 500 full time employees’ healthcare.
“Affordable healthcare is part of the cost of doing business. We’re definitely doing it [adding the surcharge] to stay afloat…,” she explained.
The restaurant group expects to pay up to $500,000 a year for its workers’ healthcare, but it does not expect to come close to recouping that recovering that.