PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Little Joe on May 15, 2020, 05:07:36 AM
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Personally, don't see a problem. If you don't want to eat there, don't. I'd rather see a sur charge than a permanent price increase. Such a sur charge may be the only thing that helps keep them in business. Perhaps the people saying that they have been hit by the Corona virus too shouldn't be out spending money in the first place.
That said, they should notify patrons prior to ordering that there is such a surcharge.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/missouri-restaurants-coronavirus-surcharge-causes-social-media-backlash
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Yet another unintended consequence of the insane overreaction to this thing, except for the meat cost increase which is legitimately due to a lot of cases in meat packing plants, but even so restaurants may have been able to temporarily eat the cost if they’d remained open for normal business all along. I bet the people complaining about PPE surcharges are the same people demanding we all wear masks everywhere. I do agree people should be notified before ordering.
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There's plenty of precedent for surcharges to address temporary higher costs. Sometimes I've seen higher costs for certain seafood items.
Every time you go to the grocery store, you'll see prices of many items have a different price than previous weeks.
You want surcharges? look at your cable bill or your cellphone bill.
Bottomline: just make sure everyone knows ahead of time. Transperancy is important.
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You don't have to eat out either. That is a choice and you can decide you don't want to pay the surcharge and just not eat there.
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I’d be more accepting of this charge if it were called “Chinese Wuhan virus CCP irresponsibility charge. They lie, you pay.”
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I’d be more accepting of this charge if it were called “Chinese Wuhan virus CCP irresponsibility charge. They lie, you pay.”
Chinese
Originated
Viral
Infectious
Disease
19th virus to come out of China
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summary.html
CDC is responding to a pandemic of respiratory disease spreading from person to person caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”).
Note: I'm perfectly ok with blaming the Chinese government for this...
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summary.html
CDC is responding to a pandemic of respiratory disease spreading from person to person caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”).
Note: I'm perfectly ok with blaming the Chinese government for this...
I like my acronym definition better. “COVID” and “coronavirus” aren’t specific enough and will lure sheeple back into trusting China.
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I like my acronym definition better. “COVID” and “coronavirus” aren’t specific enough and will lure sheeple back into trusting China.
otoh - coronavirus will correctly associate COVID-19 with other respiratory viruses like the suite of viruses that cause the seasonal flu. (i.e., it's not ebola)
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The problem here is not the surcharge, it’s social media. Social media takes reputation destruction to whole new levels. Before social media, can you imagine that a business could be destroyed by adding a temporary $2 charge in a time of crisis? Of course not. The guy’s actual customers do not complain. Yet online negative reviews by thousands of strangers could irreparably harm him.
It gets worse. As a response to this real problem, there has arisen an industry of “reputation managers”, companies you hire to scrub the internet of anything negative about you or your business. (Fauci surely has a crack team on this right now!) This gets into a huge legal grey area involving issues like free speech, defamation, and privacy.
These have always been conflicting values but only with the internet can so much be spread so far to so many instantaneously. It can destroy a business before it even gets on its feet. But the cure might be even worse.