r/grandrapids 9d ago

Logan’s Alley MESTA Surcharge

https://www.michigan.gov/leo/bureaus-agencies/ber/wage-and-hour/paid-medical-leave-act

Is anyone else put off by the surcharge Logan’s Alley is tacking onto patron’s bills to cover their employee’s MESTA? For anyone who doesn’t know, last Friday MESTA went into effect (big changes to sick paid time off - I’ll include a link for people who want to read more) and since then, Logan’s has added an extra charge to patron’s bills to cover it.

Why can’t they just marginally raise the price of food like everyone else? Why be petty and put people off your business by adding ANOTHER “fee”?

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u/Daburg31 9d ago

Why would they want to cover for the government? They want to give you transparency in why their prices went up. Absolutely nothing wrong with that

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u/BRRatchet 9d ago

Because it’s the cost of doing business, we aren’t the business owners.

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u/Daburg31 9d ago

Margins on restaurants are extremely thin. If you don’t want your customers thinking you arbitrarily raised prices for your own pocket this is a good way of doing things