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Say What? Atlanta Restaurant Goes Viral After Adding Health Insurance Charge To Customers’ Bills

<p>A restaurant in Atlanta&comma; Georgia has gone viral after adding a health insurance fee to patrons&&num;8217&semi; bills&period; According to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-12942821&sol;jenchan-restaurant-atlanta-health-insurance-charge-diner&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Daily Mail<&sol;a>&comma; the establishment is now receiving threats via social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;toccoa-riverside-restaurant-kids-fee-customer-bill-policy&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Restaurant Goes Viral For Adding &&num;8220&semi;Loud Kids&&num;8221&semi; Fee To Customer&&num;8217&semi;s Bill<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">More Details Regarding The Atlanta Restaurant &amp&semi; Why It Went Viral<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>On Thursday&comma; January 4&comma; an account with the handle &commat;GAFollowers took to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;GAFollowers&sol;status&sol;1743046398222704980" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">X<&sol;a>&comma; formerly known as Twitter&comma; to share a photo of a receipt&period; The bill was from a family-owned fusion restaurant called JenChan&&num;8217&semi;s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; the receipt showed a subtotal charge of &dollar;50&period;50 with a &dollar;4&period;49 sales tax charge&period; However&comma; it also included an additional fee — a &&num;8220&semi;Health Insurance&&num;8221&semi; charge of &dollar;2&period;02&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The bottom of the receipt featured a note explaining that the health insurance charge is calculated at four percent of the patrons&&num;8217&semi; subtotal&period; Additionally&comma; the text explained why the establishment had employed the additional charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&&num;8220&semi;The small percentage does not cover everything but it does allow us to offer ALL of our full time employees health insurance&comma;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;strong>the text read&period;<strong> &&num;8220&semi;Our industry is an incredibly difficult one to survive in&comma; the small charge affords our staff the ability to go to the doctor for mental or physical ailments they may face&period; Thank you for your understanding&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743046398222704980" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Social Media Reacts<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Over the past five days&comma; the tweet has received over 467&comma;000 views and prompted many mixed responses from social media users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743224877673218110" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743046925958484304" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743365651576586297" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743363916061712793" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Restaurant&&num;8217&semi;s Health Insurance Charge Is Reportedly Optional<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>As X users shared their reactions&comma; one with the handle &commat;<span class&equals;"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">desota shared that the health insurance charge should be optional for patrons&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743083961331417172" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then&comma; a second X user&comma; <span class&equals;"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3">&commat;xKALeeds&comma; <&sol;span>hopped in to confirm that the health insurance fee is optional&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1743094361665982511" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-12942821&sol;jenchan-restaurant-atlanta-health-insurance-charge-diner&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Daily Mail<&sol;a>&comma; the X user&&num;8217&semi;s claim is correct&period; JenChan&&num;8217&semi;s reportedly disclosed the optional charge on its menu&comma; outside the establishment&comma; and on the receipt — presumably in a location not pictured in the above viral photo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8220&semi;On your receipt&comma; you will notice 4&percnt; health insurance we implemented after our premiums more than tripled last year&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Please know that we will be more than happy to remove this for you without hesitation&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the restaurant&&num;8217&semi;s disclosure message reportedly reads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The outlet adds that outside of the commentary the restaurant has sparked on X&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ve also received threats from patrons on Facebook&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve never seen a family that needs to be beaten up more&semi; make that healthcare come in handy&comma;&&num;8221&semi; one person allegedly wrote on the company&&num;8217&semi;s Facebook page&comma; per <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-12942821&sol;jenchan-restaurant-atlanta-health-insurance-charge-diner&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Daily Mail<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the restaurant&&num;8217&semi;s owner&comma; Emily Chan&comma; is committed to drawing attention to the &&num;8220&semi;huge crisis going on with healthcare&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8220&semi;We feel like there&&num;8217&semi;s a pretty huge crisis going on with health insurance&period; No one can afford it&period; Nothing has worked&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she explained&period; &&num;8220&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">We just felt like if we put it as a line item&comma; then it would highlight that there&&num;8217&semi;s an issue here&comma; and we need to pay attention to it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>According to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fox10tv&period;com&sol;2024&sol;01&sol;08&sol;owner-family-threatened-after-restaurant-charges-extra-fee-employees-health-insurance&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Fox 10 News<&sol;a>&comma; Chan is &&num;8220&semi;not changing a thing&&num;8221&semi; despite the backlash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Not changing a thing&period; The only thing I would change is if Congress does something&comma; then I can just take that line item off completely and not even worry about it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;viral-kfc-denita-roseborough-halie-booth-restaurant-workers-tsr-investigates&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Viral KFC Manager Reveals The Dangers Against Restaurant Workers &vert; 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