Pizzeria Drops 3% Obamacare Surcharge Within 24 Hours When Customers Object to That Topping

Franny's, a pizza shop in New York, will raise its prices rather than keep a 3 percent surcharge to pay for employees' Obamacare coverage.

Leah Jessen, --December 4, 2015

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A pizza shop scrapped a surcharge of 3 percent on customers’ checks to cover Affordable Care Act fees for employees a day after adding it.
On Tuesday, Brooklyn restaurant Franny’s put a note on its website saying the pizza shop would add the surcharge because of Obamacare. The message—“a 3 percent surcharge will be added to all checks to contribute to the cost of the Affordable Care Act for all Franny’s employees”—remained on the restaurant’s online menu as of Wednesday afternoon. But the extra charge reportedly no longer will be in effect because some customers viewed it as “anti-Obamacare.” More...

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