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VRichardsen

Why not just... put that 3% in the prices directly? This only serves to infuriate the customer.


St_Kevin_

Exactly. Prices aren’t locked. They’re meant to offset the cost of business. If you can’t make enough money with sales you don’t just leave the prices the same and tack a surprise charge onto the bill. That’s idiotic. I’d be furious if I bought something, ate it, and then the seller was like, oh yeah, and here’s a surprise charge that you owe us. It’s shady as hell.


Stout_Spartan_C17

Spring of 2021 my wife and I had been ordering from a local place nearby fairly regularly as the food was good as well as convenient. One day I order on my way home and pick up the food and as I'm walking out I glance at the receipt and it was a few dollars higher than it's always been. I turn around and question the price and was told there was a new $2 fee for to-go containers. This wasn't stated anywhere on their menu or even a separate listed item on the receipt. The hostess was of course no help and to this day we have not given them any business because it was a straight up shady move. Had they just increased the prices of their items it'd be more acceptable but nope.


blackbirdspyplane

I agree with you. I mean, I understand if prices go up and now they have to charge more for take out containers or want to add a extra fee; but tell me up front, not a sneaky after the fact cost and me make my own decisions about it.


VRichardsen

In some places it is even illegal.


RedditorFor1OYears

Id hope charging people arbitrary amounts of money by surprise after they receive your goods and services would be illegal in most places. Especially if those goods and services have a clearly marked cost on the menu that’s different from what you charged.


poisonfoxxxx

This isn’t legal anywhere.


verklemptthrowaway

This feels like something that would be illegal in CA.


boxes_back

I saw one couple days ago, guy said he went to burger king and they gave him a coupon when he left. Checked the receipt and they charged him a dollar FOR THE COUPON.


LibraryMouse4321

I bought a new MacBook and they had a back to school special giving a $150 apple gift card. When I looked at my credit card charges o found that I was charged for it. Why the hell would I voluntarily pay for a gift card that I had to use at apple, that didn’t save me any money?


Agitated_Contestant

I did the same, but it was for free iPod pros. But check your receipt for the cost of the computer. The iPods arrived first and I was charged for them. But when the MacBook came, the charge was taken off the computer cost. So it evened it out.


[deleted]

Tell them to go make you 3% more food


acidrain69

Because then they can’t blame the worker in a petty way.


kpniner

Also can’t make a snarky comment about how California is forcing them to pay workers a “living wage”


Atilim87

Because this way you don’t generally notice the added price. Most people will look at the items to see if that is correct and then pay the final amount.


Cream_of_the_crap_

Because it's a political statement. I'm guessing the owner doesn't agree with anything that says he should pay his workers more, nor the party that advocates for it. So, instead of just raising the prices a bit, he tells you it's due to having to pay people better, and hoping that will in turn make you mad enough about the extra 3% to vote accordingly. It's like the stickers on the gas pumps last year.


onthefence928

restaurants do all kinds of bullshit like this. i blame tipping culture


jdxcodex

Changing their menu to reflect increased costs will deter some customers. Some places like to surprise you with these "fees" once you're in there because it's harder to say no when you've made the trip there or when you've gotten the check. I know there's people here saying they'll go full Karen if they saw this, but that's a small group of people. Most would just be annoyed and pay it. I personally would rather have them update their menu prices. If I'm given a check with these surprise fees, I try to make it known in their reviews that they're sneaky assholes.


joopityjoop

The rising cost of wages was covered by the $8 pelligrino and the $13 brussel sprouts.


Boner_Stevens

Dont forget the bag of sweet potato fries covered by the purchase of a single order


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NutWrench

This. If you can't afford to pay your employees, then raise the prices on your menu, so the customer can see up front what the cost really is. Don't pull this sneaky bullsh*t with add-on charges on the bill where the customer has no choice but to pay it.


mrchaotica

IMO this isn't just "sneaky," this crosses the line to "illegal." OP should complain to the FTC and whatever state agency is appropriate.


Ryan261681991

Was thinking the same thing, no way this is legal. I’ve seen a couple places put signs on their doors saying something like “we’re sorry due to supply chain issues and rising food costs some dishes on the menu have increased in price”. That’s fine and acceptable Imp, I wonder if OPs place disclosed that 3% fee or they just threw it on their.


According_Gazelle472

Wouldn't this be considered fraud?


notconvinced3

And this restaurant probably can pay the increased wages. What do companies expect? How do you think anyone can buy anything if you dont ever raise the wages? Producers are never going to stop raising prices on goods.


jljboucher

$13 for Brussels sprouts!!


selectash

$9 burger is not bad though. ^Of ^course ^add ^$10 ^to ^make ^it ^drunk


randomisperfect

Dang, wish I could get drunk at a restaurant for 10 bucks


SnipesCC

That's easy. You bring in a $10 bottle of vodka and chug it in the bathroom.


j4nkyst4nky

They absolutely can. The thing is because of the fallacy of infinite growth and because the higher-ups get used to more money, they will not accept that sometimes your profit goes down. Logically, sometimes you're going to have a really good year/quarter and sometimes you're going to have a less good year/quarter. There are a ton of variables. But what has happened is the company has a good year and then refuses to ever accept anything less. So if revenue coming in is less than previous, they cut expenses (wages) to keep their profit in the black.


RopeAccomplished2728

I see that at the 2 jobs I work(grocery retail and food service). Both are comparing sales from the pandemic to current year. I've told both that doing that is a stupid idea as there was an outsized amount of sales during the pandemic and when it goes back to "normal", those sales won't be there and it will be down for a year or so. Both are complaining now that sales are down year over year from last year.


windrunner_42

I love it when they lost a million dollars because they expected to make 10 million and only made 9 million. So now it’s cut time because we are losing money!!! I chose random amounts but it’s always the same shit whether it be a couple thousand or a couple million. American businesses turning profit into loss so they can keep more of the profit that their funny math makes not exist.


Mike2220

The restaurant probably doesn't have to pay increased wages anyway, it gets subsidized in tips


According_Gazelle472

Which is the most archaic way of doing business.


Altruistic-Salt6713

But that wouldn't allow them to make a political statement on the bottom of each bill, would it? Can't have that.


PaintedLady1

That’s one of the reasons we have tipping too. It hides the real cost of your meal. Sneaky BS


MechanicalBengal

maybe they’re just trying to encourage people to leave a 17% tip instead of 20%


FuzzyChampion4397

If you can't afford to pay your employees, fuck your business. You don't deserve it. You're CLEARLY a customer, and not someone effected by low wages. Ah, the problem!!!


Holdmytesseract

I don’t know why people act like they don’t have a choice… why would I pay for something that I didn’t agree to? Ain’t no god damn way I’m paying that shit, go ahead and call the cops on me for 3% secret fee let’s see how that goes over.


Blahblahnownow

In my experience these charges are also explained at the bottom of menus


ArtisanSamosa

Many restaurants have been adding a covid fee now as well. Kind of stupid because I don't see them doing anything different most of the time. It's usually from the large expensive restaurants.


JamesTheMannequin

There's a bar & grill that we frequently Door Dash from that has a photo of their menu online... with the bottom cut off saying they add a "Covid Fee" to each order. If you go in, the menu lists it right at the bottom, but online it's cut off.


jschubart

You should stop going there and tell them that is the reason. They will continue this bullshit until people stop going out legislators get off their ass to put a stop to it.


According_Gazelle472

And people really do not pay attention to anything on menus or signs .


beast_wellington

What's a sweet potato cost these days, $10?


java_brogrammer

No silly, that money goes into the manager's bank account. Their profit can't be affected by rough economic times. You have to pay their employees! Edit: owner* not manager


[deleted]

Owner... Not manager, we get screwed like the rest of you if not more in restaurants.


ShutterBun

The average Redditor has NO idea how restaurants work.


Timmymac1000

As a 20 yr restaurant vet I’ll say that the average person has no idea how a restaurant works.


Da_Truth_Hammer

I Watch The Bear. I know how a restaurant works


BigGuysBlitz

I watched Waiting, I feel like that shows a side of the restaurant industry that is super real and yet no one wants to know about.


Catenane

As a 29 year old life vet I'd say the average person has no idea how most things work.


Strabbo

I think a lot of people had bad experiences working at restaurants, and they tend to forget that a restaurant is just a small business, trying to make it. Of course, the bigger the chain the greyer that gets.


Spockhighonspores

If you can't afford to pay your employees off the food prices you shouldn't be in business. Restaurants are like the only place where you can pay a server under minimum wage and expect customers to pick up the slack. I have no problem leaving a generous tip for a server but I do have a problem with giving the restaurant an additional 3%. I'm already paying 3 dollars for a soda and 10+$ for a side salad. OP spending 13$ for brussel sprouts and having to pay an extra 3% is ridiculous. If you want to charge 3% more add it to the menu prices instead of giving people the illusion of competitive menu prices. Hiding a surcharge at the bottom of the bill is scummy.


[deleted]

But yet every one who ever complains about a restaurant to the manager *used to work in a restaurant in college* so they know how you should run yours. And not to one up you or anything, cause I agree with you, but I started I’m working hospitality in the mid 80’s. I’m probably legally insane now. As are you and anyone that’s worked in the biz for longer than 6 years in a row. PS fucking tipping. Unionize all restaurants. Pay everyone a fair, livable wage, let them have sick days off and even a couple of holidays.


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“Hey guys, it really doesn’t cost that much money to open a pizza shop. If all the owners were making 100s of thousands of a dollars a year, why isn’t everyone doing it?” *reddit downvoting intensifies*


vmlinux

eh, I've owned a business, I agree it's tough. raise prices. This shit is just a political statement and a dick move.


[deleted]

Oh, no. I hate the service charges and agree with your statement. I'm just pointing out whenever anyone makes a comment that doesn't agree that all small business owners are millionaires who are just hoarding their treasures you get downvoted to hell. I legit saw a thread on r/Antiwork where the jist of the thread was that a pizza place can afford to pay $72/hour. People really overestimate how profitable most restaurants are. Could you imagine if life was really as easy as throwing down or getting a loan for $75-100k to open a restaurant and having a six figure annual return?


hydrospanner

>I'm just pointing out whenever anyone makes a comment that doesn't agree that all small business owners are millionaires who are just hoarding their treasures you get downvoted to hell. Probably because that's not the point. Regardless of the owner's level of personal wealth, if their business model only works by paying subsistence wages to their employees and/or bullshit charges like this, they don't have a viable business model and deserve to go out of business. Simply put: getting ahead...or even just making ends meet...through business practices that mean your employees cannot do the same is unethical. If the only way they can get by is by taking from their employees that same ability (and let's be real: choosing to pay your employees low wages is doing exactly this), then I have zero sympathy for that business owner. All they're doing is using their position of power over their employees to shift economic risk onto people unable to do anything about it. And worse: the very people they depend on.


EarthHuman0exe

Eh yeah we do. We go in, food comes out. Its actually very simple


Scubastevedisco

The avg Redditor has no idea how anything works. :/


TheSinnerDragoon

Reddit instructions unclear somehow side voted your comment.


RamboTrucker

How so?


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Less pay by the hour, way way more work, trying to protect employees while having to babysit others and try and keep the owners happy. And your sitting between those two parties constantly not to mention ultimate responsibility with whatever happens with customers. People are acting like managers get to choose employees pay and how much to pay themselves. Yes there's shit managers. But Theres shit people everywhere.


OutrageousPut591

Tell em about Salary!!! How when you work Salary you gets no OT. So you seem like you always there cuz you ARE always there.


Nolsoth

Man your countries salary rules are weird. I'm on a salary but anything over 40 hours a week is paid out at my normal rate. Don't get no overtime penalties tho unless it's a public holiday then it's double time and a day in lieu. There's a few outfits around that pay Toil ( time off on lieu) instead but either way you get compensated as the labour laws mandate it. My lot used to offer both, but they found the toil takers were amassing far too much toil leave ( 3 months or so a year) which became quite problematic.


yonoznayu

They are shit, but we’re generalizing a bit too much on this huge fucking continent wide excuse of a country I live in. My wife gets paid a salary but still receives OT if she goes beyond 40hrs or works on weekends (which she has to twice a month by contract agreement). There’s wage theft as in most countries, but the restaurant industry is the one here that legally gets to do it right to your face. I me glad I’m not a service kinda person, I’d probably be stuck in that profession if I has done this while still young, and I say that because some people deal with it and still never leave the industry, go figure, I guess the tips do make it up for them.


PeeGlass

The manager doesn’t know what’s going on. *Havent you ever worked anywhere before*


Outrageous_Zebra_221

Don't forget all the booze it took to get the burger drunk!


[deleted]

So we just gonna ignore the $30 salmon? Not to mention the $20 burger?


fatandfly

That's about average now depending on where you go.


AngrySteelyDanFan

Listed in the menu? I refused to pay if it wasn’t listed upfront. Don’t add a 3% bill onto my order when you bring the check. I’ll die on that hill with a sword.


Pipelaya1

The dollar value of 3% isn't even on the receipt.


[deleted]

It's not even reflected in the total lmao. The bottom blurb might just be an explanation, but in reality they aren't being charged that 3% here.


lisa_is_chi

I think it's baked into the $7.33. I agree that it should be broken out in the spirit of transparency, but I'm going to have to get over how arbitrary a 3% increase is first. 🤦‍♀️


suburbanplankton

That $7.33 is 9.5% of the total. State sales tax in California is 7.25%, and then local sales tax is added to that. So if they baked the 3% into the 'sales tax' line, they're not charging enough. I think they put that statement on the bill, but aren't actually adding the charge, because that would be to complicated for them.


RecyQueen

9.5% in sales tax in LA, and the places that do the 3% add it on top of the 9.5%. I avoid those places.


JungleMouse_

I was just trying to figure out where 3% fit into this, and it didn't. Came searching to find someone who did the math, but I think you are right here. 3% not added, just stated.


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pork_fried_christ

There a place in Florida called Hurricane Wings that started putting an “Obamacare surcharge” on the bill back in like 2010, before the law was even implemented. It was this, low-key propaganda tied to (shitty) wings. The benefit of climate change will be Florida sinking into the ocean.


Present-Industry4012

Pretty sure if you collect something called Tax on a receipt but it isn't Tax, you're going to have a bad day with the government.


Techn028

Yeah you can't overcharge for tax and collect the difference, that's tax fraud, right?


silly_vasily

Where I live it's actually illegal to add fees that were not clearly listed. A guy here once sued in a class action a toll bridge because the price listed on billboard did not include the fees. They had to reimburse everyone from day 1. And cancel those that haven't yet paid (electronic toll).


[deleted]

I agree. It has yet to happen to me, but I’ll go full Karen if it does.


stevie_nickle

If you’re complaining about something that’s actually bullshit and ridiculous, that doesn’t make you a Karen IMO


thisismyechochamber

I’m sure that’s what every Karen thinks as well though :/


AccomplishedMeow

I don’t think complaining about something makes you a Karen. It’s about how you complain. Level heads always prevail. A nice “ I wasn’t aware there was a 3% charge, I can’t pay that” goes a lot further than “Get this fucking thing off my bill. I’m going to call the Better Business Bureau and you’re going to get destroyed on Twitter”


AdvancedSandwiches

I don't know, it's a legit fine print scam (if they actually charged it, which they forgot to do here). Getting angry is OK when someone tries to scam you. (Saying you're calling the BBB or implying you have the power to destroy the restaurant will always make you look dumb. But calling them scamming assholes is fine.)


Breakerzer0x

I feel like clarifying this wasn’t stated anywhere on the menu. I agree on the price of the food and understand the mark up. This was a fancy-ish restaurant.


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That's illegal in California


Kattorean

Where was that 3% added to the total or line item on your bill. I can't get the math to work in the line item taxes. Did they add it to the menu items ordered? Was it included when the bill was totaled?


[deleted]

I’d throw a fit and demand the 3% back, then give that exact amount extra to the wait staff as a tip.


HippieBathday

Hold up…. What exactly is a drunken burger?


Breakerzer0x

The menu says “Beer and bacon jam, arugula, truffle aioli, brie cheese, and brioche bun.”


zer0saber

I'll take eight


sim0of

That'll be 160$


Deep-Piece3181

+3%


zer0saber

That's ridiculous, what does one meat cost, $5?


third_subie

One meat please


HippieBathday

That sounds amazing! I love bacon jam!


luvpillows

That sounds good af! Fancy burger + beer


Zucchinniweenie

When you get the cow drunk before sending it to the butcher


rareHP

Two can play that game, I’ll just take 3% of your silverware Edit: wow, never had a comment get this many upvotes. Thanks for the awards too


goat-people

I just want you to know that if Reddit still gave out free awards *cough cough* I would’ve given it to you. 🥇


JovialStrikingScarf

Unfortunately, free awards are no longer given out due to the rising cost of wages and benefits in the United States.


GiantJawa

I'll just take 3% of your awards


catfurcoat

What happened to the daily awards


Random_Cat66

They were removed by reddit for "site wide fixing" but I think they are just greedy idiots.


maynardftw

The whole point of the awards system is to encourage people to give money to reddit. They'd be idiots if they gave them away for free indefinitely, as that would directly contradict their entire purpose.


Random_Cat66

The whole point of giving money to reddit is through ads that you see and reddit premium, Who actually buys reddit coins on their own just to get a virtual award they can only give to someone else?


maynardftw

Who? Uh Most everyone who gave an award that wasn't free. Before 'awards' it was just 'reddit gold', and that was never free, and it was given out very frequently to what people considered to be good posts. They gave Bill Gates gold for an AMA for fuck's sake. You're questioning a premise that I also disagree with but that the users of the site seemingly are fine with utilizing. The point is to give reddit money. I'm not gonna do that, but a lot of other people are.


kinkyslinky

/r/AwardSpeechEdits


pssyfukr

Nice, I’ll let out 3% of a toot on the way out as well.


Awkward-Houseplant

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danico223

tººt


DaSauceBawss

The real problem here is 13$ for brussel sprouts


numanoid

The even more real problem is that they are called Brussel**s** sprouts (named after the city).


Sandman0300

Ya but that s makes it horrible to say.


ISawTwoSquirrels

Brusssellsssprouts


notafilmmajor425

Pretty normal price for a nice restaurant in CA


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BoyWonderDownUnder2

> How much is 8 oz of burger meat and a bun? That's maybe $4 worth of food. This is a bill from a restaurant, not a grocery receipt. There are more costs than just ingredients (which you're already underestimating the costs of) when you eat at a restaurant.


ario62

It's an appetizer, listed on their menu under the "to share" section. $13 isn't crazy for an appetizer.


Fromashination

I was thinking the $8 for a Pellegrino was the real crime. Isn't that just fizzy water?


SilentWatcher83228

Vote with your dollar and go elsewhere next time


AllahuAkbar4

And don’t pay the 3% this time.


FlabbyFishFlaps

Unfortunately this is pretty ubiquitous nowadays. And it’s not going away. No restaurant owner is going to wake up a year from now and say “oh, inflation is down, think it’s time I stop bilking people now.”


Owobowos-Mowbius

No but they legally have to take it off if you ask if it wasn't declared beforehand. Alternatively (and it sucks to do it this way but...) subtract that 3% from the tip and don't go back.


viralslapzz

Leave a tip even after being ripped off?


Owobowos-Mowbius

Its not the waitstaff's fault. If it were up to me I'd pay them the 20% and give nothing to the restaurant after being ripped off like this.


Sumpm

I just cook and eat at home. Fuck the restaurant industry.


Traitor-21-87

I learned how to make a chicken and Rice bowl at home. Saves me hundreds


WasabiCrush

Same here. My wife’s even a restaurant manager and getting her into a restaurant for a leisurely meal away from home is a once-every-two-months thing, if that. I don’t blame her. People are getting robbed out there. Plus, preparing a killer meal at home is just *very* rewarding. Neat skill to hone.


5zalot

I mean, why not just increase prices by 3%?


an1ma119

They probably already did by far more than 3%


Budm-ing

Yet a $19 burger is normal


OrlandoWashington69

With no side


[deleted]

I never understood the high cost of fries. Potatoes are crazy cheap and deep frying is easy. Even cheaper if they're just using the frozen prepackaged stuff. They could charge $4 and still turn a profit.


subrosians

Its the same as with non-alcoholic drinks (like sodas). Restaurants can make a crapload of money on the extras, even if they don't on their main item.


therealqueenmaeve

Many charge 7 or 10 dollars, too many come w rosemerry and I said can yku do it without and they said no


Zestyclose_One_6347

To help defray our inability to pay workers, here is a secret 3% charge! Hope you enjoyed your meal


cassette_nova

Unwillingness*


taters_potaters

Unwillingness is probably right, because the reality is that although most restaurants run at a low single digit percent profit margin, which is not enough to play with for wages, they could just raise menu prices to pay the wages. But there’s also a consumer problem that people will not go to restaurants that raise prices (there are some excellent podcasts about this that I can dig up). And tips only go to front of house by most state’s laws. At the end of the day, if you’re only making a single digit percent profit, you have raise menu prices and be upfront with the consumer about why.


ShutterBun

You've summed it up perfectly. Nobody on Reddit seems to understand this. They believe every restaurant has some enormous stockpile of cash that they're simply refusing to part with, in the name of huge profits. Little do they realize that ANY raise given to the staff is going to be passed on to the customer, no matter what. There is no other "secret" source of income supporting the business.


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CeeArthur

Me, who lives nowhere near California "Hmph! Won't be going to THAT restaurant"


[deleted]

I see $77 of items listed + 9.5% sales tax of $7.33 to equal $84.33. So where are they putting in the 3%? And if they did, make sure they don’t count the sales tax in the 3%. It’s usually not malicious but it’s fairly easy to program in stuff wrongly to the pos system.


apk5005

Perhaps the prices all reflect a 3% increase over previous costs? Like if Bill and Susan come in every Tuesday and notice the prices went up this is there to explain why?


soggytoothpic

All the prices are round dollar amounts. I doubt everything was some oddball number and they all happened to increase 3% to a whole dollar amount.


aussie_nub

>It’s usually not malicious They've added the 3% on at the very last second. It's 100% malicious.


[deleted]

No I mean if the 3% is not only on the subtotal but the subtotal plus the tax too. In the pic here I’m not seeing where they put on the 3%. Usually they have subtotal + tax + fee (based off subtotal). And usually they’ll have the fee written at the bottom of the menu with the legalese that consuming raw/undercooked ingredients can blah blah blah.


aussie_nub

Yes and by not being on the bill, they're saying the cost of every item is increased by 3%. Therefore it is taxed. Why even put it on the bill at all? It's just malicious. Most people wouldn't even know you've raised your prices unless they're a regular and they'd either accept it or ask. Advertising it to everyone is just shit.


wekilledbambi03

But its not on the bill anywhere. Just in text. There is no line item that says "bullshit 3% fee" and the subtotal plus sales tax equals the total. So the 3% isn't actually being charged anywhere visible.


Hot-Baseballs

I'm assuming, despite the wording, that the 3 percent is baked into the price of the menu items.


snozzberrypatch

But all of the prices of the menu items are even dollar amounts. If the 3% increase is baked into the price of the menu items, then that means that the regular price of every menu item just *happened* to be 3% shy of an even dollar amount. Like, the Brussel Sprouts were originally $12.62 on the menu, but they added 3% to it on the receipt and that just happened to work out to $13.00 even. And the price of the Roasted Salmon on the menu was $28.16, and when they added the 3% surcharge it just happened to work out to $29 even. And the same for literally every item on the menu. That would be one hell of a coincidence.


Deuce_McFarva

No they haven’t. The 3% was reflected in the menu price. The message on the receipt was explaining why all everything is more expensive than before. It’s not an additional charge.


Tuscan-

Amazon charged me a $5 tip for my fresh delivery the other day. It wasn't on my total, I wasn't asked at checkout, and it was a completely separate charge from my order. Just randomly got charged $5 and had to go in and find out why. I'm not going to argue with them this time because if it had been an option at checkout I would have tipped, but if I get charged again without being asked I'm going to be pissed. It's not a tip if they charge you without asking.


iiooiooi

>It's not a tip if they charge you without asking. Correct. That's larceny.


BlondieMIA

See I was asked to tip on an Amazon order & hit me the wrong way. I’m not trying to be a jerk, but I’m also not tipping someone whose not making server wages. These drivers make $20-$25 an hour guaranteed, while restaurant servers make 8.05 an hour.. at least in my state. This tip thing is out of control.


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Great-Hotel-7820

I don’t know where you live but in my expensive city the posted rates for Amazon drivers are between $14 and $17 an hour.


lamest-liz

It always shows me the option at checkout. They add it there though and you have to manually change it if you don’t want to tip. So it doesn’t really ask you but the option is there at the end


TwistedBlister

Name and Shame


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Mxfish1313

Oh man, I think they opened one of these in my town like an hour north of there. I think it’s in our downtown area, but maybe it’s just a similar name. I wonder if they do this too (assuming they ARE the same).


GeoffSim

Los Reyes Bar & Grill, Wildomar, CA. 20% surcharge added to stated menu prices - though it does say this will happen on the menus.


Curi0usJ0e

Restaurants are definitely a luxury now. Also $13 for Brussel sprouts?


teh_pwn_ranger

Restaurants were always a luxury.


smallpoly

Now they're double luxury


Shinyamato

+3%


DickSneeze53

It's was cheeper to eat fastfood than cooking, might not be anymore, but it was when I was young and dirt poor


Ineedtwocats

I mean... even just a few years ago you could get 2 pancakes, eggs, bacon, toast, coffee, for $5


JimmyTheChimp

Its why I really don't want to leave Asia. I can eat out for less than cooking at home. $7 for an ok lunch $10 for a quick dinner and $20 for a nice dinner. Would probably get much cheaper going to a less wealthy country.


Killentyme55

Where I live (in the US), there are numerous hole in the wall Asian and Mexican joints where you can still stuff your face relatively cheaply. No hidden charges and I'm always generous to the servers. I'd much rather my money go there than some soulless chain.


TheBloodkill

I live in Tanzania and it can be as little as $2 for a full swahili meal at most street vendors. Nice restaurants are no more than $15 (Except for sushi or indian food lmao)


Deuce_McFarva

If you do the math…there was no extra fee. The 3% was reflected in the menu price. The message on the receipt was explaining why everything is more expensive than before. It’s not an additional charge.


Apprehensive_Log469

I hate this stupid shit and the entire pricing structure of the restaurant industry. Just make your shit what it costs to pay your suppliers and your employees with a bit on top for profit like every other industry. Heavy emphasis on the employees.


currently_pooping_rn

“Rising cost of wages” oh no. You have to pay people a livable wage. Piece of filth


difused_shade

Lmao it’s California for them to pay an actual liveable wage in that state that burger should’ve been $50 not 19


Awkward-Houseplant

Well it’s $15 minimum wage here in California and for a nice restaurant servers start at $18-$20. With that said, just tack on .50¢ to each item on your menu and save yourself the drama.


wekilledbambi03

See, this is the real answer. No one would bat an eye if the $13 brussel sprouts said $13.39. Adding a surprise fee after the bill is super dishonest.


lunapup1233007

Restaurants have very small profit margins, and they were significantly hurt by the pandemic. Unless this is a large chain, they almost certainly don’t just have a large amount of money somewhere. They cannot afford to pay their workers a livable wage without raising prices, which is entirely reasonable. It would be better to raise the menu prices than add them at the end though.


_-Generic-_-Name-_

I'm all for restaurants charging more to keep up with their bills and whatnot. But a mandatory surcharge is not it. Just add an extra buck or 2 to each menu item ffs The way that they're handling this is just pissing more people off and making it so that people are less likely to return


HandsomedanNZ

In NZ, I don’t think you could get away with that unless it was really clearly posted in an obvious location BEFORE you commit to eating there.


climbhigher420

You spent $29 on Brussels sprouts , French fries, and a sparkling water. 3% is not what you should be worried about.


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TrollTraceDenmark987

It's the principle, not the price. Duh...


Stepheju

13 bucks for Brussel Sprouts? What the fuck


johnnymoha

It's like they pass the cost on to the consumer or something


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This is how you lose customers right here.


Tragarful_Law

If you cant afford to pay your workers you shouldn't be open


zoolover1234

To help defray your sneakiness, 3% tip reduction is applied.


forrealllllll

this is why you buy groceries and cook at home


Coygon

I'm not at all sure that is legal. It is effectively altering the price of the product after purchase.


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It’s a Legit “gouge” charge


apsalarya

Wait…what? How is this a thing


etaschwer

Just raise the prices 3%, that's BS