Obamacare Forces Franchise Owner to sell his Restaurants

For almost 20 years Bob Westbrook has been a Cici’s Pizza franchise owner, selling “fresh taste at a great price.” But thanks to Obamacare’s not-so-great-employer mandate, Westbrook is forced to sell his buffet-style restaurants instead of pizza. 

Even though Westbrook says his Texas stores were the top three performing CiCi’s Pizza franchises, he wasn’t making enough dough… er, money to provide health insurance to all 96 of his full-time employees, much less afford the penalty — which would cost him $78,000 more than what he says he made at his restaurants in 2011.

“It’s a crying shame when government actually causes you to shrink your business rather than to grow your businesses and provide additional employment for the economy,” Westbrook said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” show Monday night. 

The Texas franchisee implied that with so many uncertainties in the Obamacare plan, he went straight to researching the penalties when the legislation passed in 2010, while he was president of the Texas Restaurant Association.

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