LogFAQs > #950909277

Having a percentage increase on bills is never going to match what you pay your employees because your employees are hourly and they cannot miraculously determine how much business you get in a day.

if you got zero customers that day the surcharge wouldnt cover your employees increased wages, but you still get paid. Some days youll get more some days less.

As an aside, increasing your employees wages by a dollar an hour isnt just an increase in costs by a dollar. Look at your next paycheck, with the exception of withholding, your employer is paying all those taxes on top of your base check along with some other taxes that are levied on the employer.

Also factor in that credit cards take a portion of any transaction paid so any increase in bills isnt a complete increase in money taken in.

Edit: I mean the deductions taken from your paycheck are only your portion of the taxes, employers have their share of taxes which is either equal or greater than what your portion is, depending on the tax.