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Dennys adding 5% surchurge to pay for Obamacare and cutting employees hours

Billy Mitchell said:
This is the same sort of asshole who also requires a $2.00 minimum purchase before letting you use a credit card at a convenience store.
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Which is actually a violation of the terms of service from the card provider.
 
To the OP's post, do as you like, Denny's guy. Free markets and all that, right? If you want to raise your prices to protect your profits, have at it. It's your business.
 
ArlingtonDeac said:
To the OP's post, do as you like, Denny's guy. Free markets and all that, right? If you want to raise your prices to protect your profits, have at it. It's your business.
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Kind of. Denny's might have something to say about one of its franchisees adding an arbitrary surcharge and giving them all this free publicity.
 
WakeandBake said:
Holy shit, the price of a pizza at Papa John's is going to go up 15 cents to cover Obamacare! :willynilly:
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RJKarl said:
Papa John refuses to raise the prices $0.15. He's going to fire some people and cut the hours of others.
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THE DEUCE said:
Forbes magazine did a study and found out that it would just be 4cents add to pizzas to cover his employees.....this is the crap that pisses me off!!
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It would probably also help if he and Captain 5 head noodle arm didn't give away 2 million free pizzas. If you can give away 2MM pizzas then you don't need to lay off workers. Fucking WOPs and their red sauce and their awful math.

 
papa john is so awkward on camera.
 
His interviews during the papajohn's bowl are pretty funny. They aren't supposed to be, but they are.
 
ArlingtonDeac said:
To the OP's post, do as you like, Denny's guy. Free markets and all that, right? If you want to raise your prices to protect your profits, have at it. It's your business.
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There's the Arlington I know and love. I was wondering where he had disappeared to the last couple months.
 
Skydog Deac said:
Guess you are one of the people who can't make an effort. Or have never shopped for yourself and realized that it can be cheaper. That bad food is cheaper argument is used by all people with bad diets who choose not to try. And then you guys trot out the Whole Foods line like that's what I was suggesting. Believe it or not, there is good food to be had outside Whole Foods, whose food is always blander than it looks anyway.
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You go to WF for the meat, seafood, organic local seasonal produce and cheeses. Not sure what bland has to do with that. Who eats the prepared foods? Gross. Pro tip though. Right about now they sell gravy in the prep food section and with minimal doctoring it's an excellent time saver.
 
Marquee Moon said:
You go to WF for the meat, seafood, organic local seasonal produce and cheeses. Not sure what bland has to do with that. Who eats the prepared foods? Gross. Pro tip though. Right about now they sell gravy in the prep food section and with minimal doctoring it's an excellent time saver.
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We have a WF walking distance to our office. I was in a time crunch the other day and got an $8 sandwich from WF and it was awful.

Their fruit and meats though are great.
 
94Deac said:
Which is actually a violation of the terms of service from the card provider.
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No it isn't. The vendor cannot charge a fee as a percentage of the charge (which is absolutely ridiculous, because the processing bank is charging their fee as a percentage of the charge), but they most certainly can charge a single set processing fee.
 
Billy Mitchell said:
This is the same sort of asshole who also requires a $2.00 minimum purchase before letting you use a credit card at a convenience store.
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So you expect that "asshole" to lose money on your transaction because the $.25 minimum processing fee that it cost him to run your card was more than the $.10 margin that he had on the product? Because you're too lazy to have $1 in your wallet to buy some tic-tacs?
 
What's funny is if this was some kind of big deal Obama could just claim it as a victory. Oh, pizza and pancakes are going to be 8 cents more expensive and the result is every employee gets health care? Sign me up, sounds like the best deal ever. What's next? Hamburgers cost an extra nickel and every teacher in America gets a 10% raise? Oh, the horror.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
No it isn't. The vendor cannot charge a fee as a percentage of the charge (which is absolutely ridiculous, because the processing bank is charging their fee as a percentage of the charge), but they most certainly can charge a single set processing fee.
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Yes it is. You need to check the POS agreements issued by both MasterCard and Visa. They cannot set a "minimum required purchase" amount. If they chose to add that into their overhead and pricing, that's their right.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
No it isn't. The vendor cannot charge a fee as a percentage of the charge (which is absolutely ridiculous, because the processing bank is charging their fee as a percentage of the charge), but they most certainly can charge a single set processing fee.
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which is very different from not allowing a card to be used on a small purchase.
 
94Deac said:
Yes it is. You need to check the POS agreements issued by both MasterCard and Visa. They cannot set a "minimum required purchase" amount. If they chose to add that into their overhead and pricing, that's their right.
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No, it isn't, Dodd-Frank made those provisions illegal (and thus the merchant's right to do it legal) as of 2010. Merchants can set credit card minimum charges up to $10, as long as all cards are treated equally.

I'm trying to paste a snapshot from a PDF of Dodd-Frank, but it will not paste here. It is at the top of Page 698.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4173enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr4173enr.pdf
 
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