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Surprise: Restaurants in Fla., Calif. Charge Customers for Obamacare

1-3-2014 < SGT Report 477 114 words
 

by Barbara Boland, CNS News:


Some restaurants have made the decision to charge customers for Obamacare: Gator’s Dockside restaurants in Florida have added a 1% Affordable Care Act surcharge on their diners’ tabs, while at least one popular restaurant in Los Angeles has added a 3% charge to bills.


In Florida, The Gator Group told CNNMoney that the company had to implement “the surcharge now because of the compliance costs it’s facing ahead of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate kicking in in 2015.” So even though their employees won’t get health insurance coverage until December, customers are feeling the pinch now.


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