ObamaCare bites!

The owners of popular Brooklyn pizza restaurant Franny’s have begun adding a 3 percent surcharge to every check to cover the cost of employees’ Affordable Care Act benefits. (Restaurateurs with 50 or more full-time staffers must provide coverage by 2016 or be fined up to $2,000 per employee.)

That’s on top of raising pizza prices, pre-surcharge, from $18 to $20.

Are they downing too much grappa on Flatbush Avenue?

A hero shop I once knew posted notices of 3-cents-per-ounce wholesale butter hikes to justify charging $1 more for a salami sandwich. We expected something less tacky from classy Franny’s, which has set a higher bar for casual, locally sourced Italian cuisine in its neighborhood since 2004.

Of course, the costs of running restaurants in the city are going up for a million reasons. Yet somehow, despite supposedly unmanageable economics, new places open and thrive without tacking on extra charges.

Husband-and-wife owners Andrew Feinberg and Francine Stephens know their surcharge shock has plopped a couple of dilemmas on their plate. For one: Restaurant surcharges are illegal in the city, as The Post reported on Nov. 13.

Stephens tells me it’s “not a non-issue. We’ve been talking to lawyers and no one was able to give us a clear answer. Obviously, if it is ruled to be illegal, we will remove it.”

Feinberg and Stephens, no Tea Party types, fear they’ll be seen as objecting to ObamaCare. Franny’s and two other nearby spots they own tout politically correct, sustainable, organic, antibiotic-free ingredients and “renewable energy.”

But the message on their website cites only the Affordable Care Act — not rising costs of rent, labor, power, food, taxes and insurance — for requiring their three percent solution.

Stephens says, “Never has my business been confronted with a $200,000 bill” — their ObamaCare costs. “It’s a great law that we just can’t afford,” she says.

Franny’s is entitled to do what it says it must. But it opens a Pandora’s box of all kinds of weird potential surcharges around town.

One comment posted on eater.com, where Ryan Sutton broke the story, snarked that a “global oregano shortage” might call for an oregano surcharge.

Hey — don’t give them ideas.

Editor’s note: Since the publication of this article, Franny’s has retracted the ObamaCare surcharge. A letter sent to the restaurant’s customers reads: “Given the stated preference of our guests as well as the potential for misinterpretations into the future, we will retract the surcharge and reconfigure our menu pricing instead.”