Holland, MI Restaurant Owner made National News for charging “COVID Tax”
Listen, times are tough and you still want to eat right?
Goog’s Pub & Grub in Holland, Michigan recently started implementing its own COVID “tax”. This made national news as TMZ covered the story. Owner Brad White tells TMZ that he’s had to add the charge to cover skyrocketing prices for food and restaurant supplies. I am totally okay with this!
He’s added an extra 86 cents to all bills to factor in to-go bags, silverware, condiments and styrofoam containers since everything here is take-out only.
White says they’re usually serving 1,500 burgers a week and before the pandemic hit hard they were paying $50 for a case of beef. The price is now a whopping $96 per case! Meat factories across the country getting hit by COVID is the cause for that.
Most people seem to understand why it’s necessary, but some people think he’s using the pandemic to rip off customers.
He says, “That’s the furthest thing from the truth” — and points out he’s also had to downsize from 35 employees to 16. He’s trying to help out his remaining staff by raising their hourly wage from $6 to $10.
Other restaurants around the country have done the same thing. He hopes to eliminate the COVID-19 tax when things get back to normal.
Listen, I’m with my man Brad here. In fact, I go out of my way to tip when getting takeout because I know restaurants are struggling. Plus 86 cents really isn’t anything ridiculous.
Would you have a problem if you were charged a COVID tax?
