Several franchise owners of popular restaurant chains say that the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare will increase costs for small business owners—and in order to offset costs they are adding surcharges to bills, threatening layoffs and more.
According to the Huffington Post, John Metz, a Florida-based Denny's franchise owner, is adding a 5 percent surcharge to customers' bills to offset costs for healthcare.
Apple-Metro CEO Zane Tankel, who owns more than 40 Applebee's chains in the metro New York area, slammed Obamacare on Fox Business Network, Huffington Post reported, stating he would not hire any more employees and may cut the hours of current employees.
But a Twitter campaign has already begun against Papa John's after CEO John Schnatter’s said the chain would increase prices to offset costs related to the Affordable Care Act. Protestors are asking Americans to support local pizza chains over Papa John's.
So what do you think? Will you boycott these businesses for their actions against employees and customers? Or you think that small business owners are suffering due to Obamacare? Tell us in the comments.
.Come on you are the stupid one here.We need living wages in this country.As far as im concerned he should go out of business.His food is killing the country.It's not fit for animals to eat.Businesses like papa john's is the reason we need obamacare.
This is what occupy Wall Street is all about. Because of Obama Care. Papa Johns is going to go from a 1.4 billion dollars annual revenue to 1.2 billion in annual revenue. So we must now panic and cut hours and raise our prices because, God forbid we drop to 1.2 billion. You know how much that affects my bonus. SMH
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