Denny's: Never mind, we like Obamacare after all. Come back please!

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Don't expect to hear more about an Obamacare surcharge from Denny's franchisee John Metz.

Denny's chief executive John Miller privately reached out to Metz to express his "disappointment" with the Florida franchisee's controversial statements about Obamacare, which sparked a wave of backlash for the national restaurant chain over the past few days. Metz released a statement Monday night expressing "regret" over his statements.

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Miller is rushing to put out the fire sparked by Metz's controversial proposal to charge restaurant customers a 5 percent Obamacare fee. "Customers have two choices: They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server," Metz told HuffPost in an interview last week.

Some Denny's franchisees have since dealt with angry customers, calls for a boycott and declining sales. A spokeswoman for Metz said he will not conduct more interviews.

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Mouannes, who co-owns the restaurants with this brother, said he would never have laid off employees or cut hours due to Obamacare. But now he may have to, he said, if Denny's boycotts take hold. "I'm not in favor of cutting employees, but if there is no demand, we will be pushed to do this," he said. "Unfortunately, if there are boycotts, it's going to come down to hurting our operations, hurting our employees. There will be people hurt across the board."

Unfortunately for Mouannes, many consumers don't understand the complex relationship between franchisees and their parent corporations, or that owners of individual outlets within Denny's, Ace Hardware, Applebee's, Papa John's and Jimmy John's may not represent the whole company when speaking against Obamacare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/john-metz-dennys-obamacare-surcharge-_n_2146735.html?ir=Small+Business

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Don't expect to hear more about an Obamacare surcharge from Denny's franchisee John Metz.

Denny's chief executive John Miller privately reached out to Metz to express his "disappointment" with the Florida franchisee's controversial statements about Obamacare, which sparked a wave of backlash for the national restaurant chain over the past few days. Metz released a statement Monday night expressing "regret" over his statements.

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Miller is rushing to put out the fire sparked by Metz's controversial proposal to charge restaurant customers a 5 percent Obamacare fee. "Customers have two choices: They can either pay it and tip 15 or 20 percent, or if they really feel so inclined, they can reduce the amount of tip they give to the server," Metz told HuffPost in an interview last week.

Some Denny's franchisees have since dealt with angry customers, calls for a boycott and declining sales. A spokeswoman for Metz said he will not conduct more interviews.

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Mouannes, who co-owns the restaurants with this brother, said he would never have laid off employees or cut hours due to Obamacare. But now he may have to, he said, if Denny's boycotts take hold. "I'm not in favor of cutting employees, but if there is no demand, we will be pushed to do this," he said. "Unfortunately, if there are boycotts, it's going to come down to hurting our operations, hurting our employees. There will be people hurt across the board."

Unfortunately for Mouannes, many consumers don't understand the complex relationship between franchisees and their parent corporations, or that owners of individual outlets within Denny's, Ace Hardware, Applebee's, Papa John's and Jimmy John's may not represent the whole company when speaking against Obamacare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/john-metz-dennys-obamacare-surcharge-_n_2146735.html?ir=Small+Business

Not too much of an issue for employees overall. If people avoid Denny's they have many other choices of restaurants where the management is not so stupid! Those places will have to increase staffing proportionate to the decline at Denny's. As competitive as the market is, this could possibly push Denny's over the edge. I hope not but if it does it would be a good lesson to all the businesses tempted to wear their personal politics on their sleeve!