Restaurants are handing out a Covid Tax

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Restaurants Charging Customers COVID Tax in Wake of Pandemic

Restaurants are desperately trying to stay afloat during the pandemic ... and that means customers bucking up -- so, welcome to the age of COVID surcharges.

Por ejemplo ... Goog's Pub & Grub in Holland, Michigan recently started implementing its own COVID "tax" of sorts. Owner Brad White tells TMZ ... he's had to add the charge to cover skyrocketing prices for food and restaurant supplies.

White says his joint added an extra 86 cents to all bills to factor in to-go bags, silverware, condiments and styrofoam containers since, at this moment, restaurants in Michigan are limited to delivery and take-out only.

White says the popular burger joint usually pumps out 1,500 burgers a week and before the pandemic hit hard they were paying $50 for a case of beef. The price is now a whopping $96 per case. COVID cases hitting meat factories hard across the country contributed to that.

The public seems to get why the surcharge -- first reported by FOX17 -- is necessary. White says most people understand it's necessary to help the restaurant level off costs, but he adds some have accused him of trying to exploit the pandemic to rip off customers.

He says, "That's the furthest thing from the truth" -- and points out he's also had to downsize from 35 employees to 16. He's trying to help out his remaining staff by raising their hourly wage from $6 to $10. Point is, they're scraping by like millions across the country.

 

[Paper Boi]

cook your own food then

 

[The Special Man]

Don’t know why muthafukkas want to eat out anyway.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Be financially illiterate and culinarily deficit brehs and brehettes.

 

[mamba]

 

[Piff Perkins]

Of course a white person posted this. Demand things go back to normal and then get mad when restaurants have to play catch up brehettes. Economy is fukked...

 

[Afro]

Don’t know why muthafukkas want to eat out anyway.

I still order from my two favorite spots (delivery) because I don't want them gone

Not too many places make a decent Reuben around here

 

[Wild self]

Pretty much, RIP to these establishments. People have less disposable income than ever, and this will close them down for good, making people pay extra for a pandemic they had no control over.

 

[Afro]

Of course a white person posted this. Demand things go back to normal and then get mad when restaurants have to play catch up brehettes. Economy is fukked...

I'm thinking "yea and? Food shortage woman."

A dollar is whatever, but the food better taste the same

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

look at that thumb

was they diggin in they ass?

 

[Big Boss]

learn to cook

 

[Afro]

look at that thumb

was they diggin in they ass?

Why did you have to point that out

Now im trying to figure out what that gunk is

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

She worried about the tax..
But that dirty ass fingernail..
Probably has all kinds of diseases in it

 

[Lord_nikon]

look at that thumb

was they diggin in they ass?

 

[Arinam]

imagine being a woman with nails like that
shoulda charged her more off principle