{"id":2807,"date":"2012-11-15T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2012-11-15T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:26:58","slug":"john-metz-dennys-franchisee-and-hurricane-grill-wings-owner-imposes-surcharge-for-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/11\/john-metz-dennys-franchisee-and-hurricane-grill-wings-owner-imposes-surcharge-for-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"John Metz, Dennys Franchisee And Hurricane Grill &#038; Wings Owner, Imposes Surcharge For Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metz said he will hold meetings at all his restaurants starting in December to discuss the surcharge and to tell employees &#8220;that because of Obamacare, we are going to be cutting front-of-the-house employees to under 30 hours, effective immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/13\/john-metz-hurricane-grill-wings-dennys_n_2122412.html\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1531e40.jpg' alt='John Metz, Dennys Franchisee And Hurricane Grill &amp; Wings Owner, Imposes Surcharge For Obamacare' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Metz said he hopes the post-election meetings will inspire employees rather than alienate them. &#8220;What were going to ask them to do is to speak to their elected officials, to try to convey what this means in terms of their jobs and their livelihoods,&#8221; Metz said.<\/p>\n<p>Metz said he understands the problems that will create not just for his scheduling but for his employees. &#8220;I think its a terrible thing. Its ridiculous that the maximum hours we can give people is 28 hours a week instead of 40,&#8221; Metz said. &#8220;Its going to force my employees to go out and get a second job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/13\/john-metz-hurricane-grill-wings-dennys_n_2122412.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Metz, Dennys Franchisee And Hurricane Grill &amp; Wings Owner, Imposes Surcharge For Obamacare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metz said he will hold meetings at all his restaurants starting in December to discuss the surcharge and to tell employees &#8220;that because of Obamacare, we are going to be cutting front-of-the-house employees to under 30 hours, effective immediately.&#8221; &nbsp; Metz said he hopes the post-election meetings will inspire employees rather than alienate them. &#8220;What&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}