This is how the girl feels about SF health care surcharge that restaurants have been adding to checks recently:
Here's the thing - companies have been paying for their employees health care costs for years, as they should. Why is it suddenly okay to put it separately? I think it's the opposite of honest - it tricks people. You think, oh, their steak is only 37 dollars. That's reasonable. But then there's that 4%, which most people don't think about much. And then the steakhouse down the road, who have been giving their employees health care all along instead of just starting this year because the SF gov made a law about it, who charge 38 dollars for the same steak, looks expensive. When really it's the same price.
If I had a beer bottle store, could I suddenly be like, oh, I'm charging 2% MORE this month because I decided to give my employees a better retirement match? NO. You add it to prices or you suck it up.
Screw them.