Wellness Fee

 

Can a wellness fee at restaurants truly be the antidote for someone’s mental or emotional health?  And is it safe to say; that mental and emotional health has increased dramatically since the plandemic?  The plandemic has had a significant impact on Americans mental, emotional, and spiritual health, with two new CDC reports showing an increase in overall suicide rates in 2021 and record levels of sadness and hopelessness among teenagers.  And what is the longer term effect or impact of another plandemic on our wellness? 

Restaurants across the United States of America are implementing this bizarre add-ons, which can shockingly tack an extra 20% percent more into of your bill.  This doesn’t include your tips or taxes.  Why… well, think about it all — It is to combat egregious inflation.  This problem of inflation was coming down the pipeline.  The economy has always proven the decline of wellbeing or wellness in our; mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial health.  Since the Great Depression.  We can now added The Recession, and The Plandemic (Covid). 

Many of those same restaurants today started this fee add-on prior to the plandemic says; the New York Post which reported on this topic and added; “It is to assist for qualified and experienced kitchen staff which has been tough to come by since 2020.”  But does this really affect our growing development of mental, emotional, and spiritual health?  If a person takes poison into his system, they cannot ignore the antidote, if they chooses to discard them out the window or in the trash it makes no difference what he does.  They will have to suffer the consequences.  Who’s to really blame for this mess…

Adding on this new system or fee isn’t right.  In my experience or perspective.  Especially, when the food industry is trying to use it in the language of wellness.  Because wellness used to be described or associated with overall health; specifically: emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually.  In fact, I have seen diagnosis showing that anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder were reviewed in about 7 million adults and youngsters from January 2019 to August 2022 by the Rand Corporation and Castlight Health researchers.  Those findings and other similarly were astronomical.  So, unless restaurants in hiring individuals dealing with those cases above.  It should be noted as wellness related fees.  In addition, did you know the FAA is looking into over 4000 pilots that have major health problems and some of those problems are links to mental health.  Why hasn’t the Airline Industry acted on creating a fee for their welfare or wellness? 

I think this is a moment where we as a society need to recognize our responsibility in checking on our people.  But adding on a wellness fees isn’t the answer.  Can you imagine teachers doing this today?  Look, it’s about taking the opportunity to train your people more and showing them other benefit of how much they are valuable by checking in on their wellness, wellbeing, or overall welfare.  Making your customers pay more for a businesses or corporations inability to train or care for their people under the guise of wellness is absolutely wrong.  

With gratitude,

Coach Frank Sagasta 

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