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We have raised prices by 5% to avoid having to update all the menus we will just add it to the bottom line.
It costs way less to print ONE page to a menu than raising prices and making a whole new menu… duh! Makes sense!
They still updated the menu with this though lol
People are more price sensitive to different menu items. This allows them to avoid that. Even if you know about the fee.
I guess the avoided re printing menus? But that doesn’t the same to the customer.
The new note is printed on the menus.
I actually kind of appreciate this.
This is like separating out the tax from the total in the US. If the price is the price, you just get used to it.
If you see the increased prices as a surcharge, broken out, the suppliers don’t get away with their price increases. You have to see it looking you in the face every time. Maybe it’ll motivate people to action.
What action?
Inflation isn’t something that just started happening last Thursday.
I didn’t imply it was. The fact we’re in the middle of it doesn’t make the idea bad.
They can decide to stop doing the work of normalizing prices increases on behalf of their suppliers any time they choose.
I didn’t imply it was. The fact we’re in the middle of it doesn’t make the idea bad.
“The middle” suggests you think there’s a start and possibly an end. Otherwise the price of a burger would be 5c plus a 20,000% inflation surcharge.
Just to help you understand the downvotes.
Inflationary and deflationary events are constantly occurring, as in everyday. We had a big inflation spike during covid, but that inflation is now just part of the price.
Hiding increased costs in a surcharge just hides how much the meal actually costs.
In most states this is explicitly illegal in food service.
Great way to lose customers.
You gotta raise prices? Raise prices. But nobody likes getting random extras at the end of their bills.
I’ll tally it myself and leave cash on the table, no stress
my favorite kind of hidden fees is when a client pushes a revision clause into a contract for research projects (read: fudge the numbers to their vision of the world) but during legal back and forth the per hour rate for revisions emerges and the client totally misses it and then benign 5k small-scale project gets an extra 10k price tag because those “can we present data with slightly different dimensions?” add up real fast and tough shit.
I bet they also have suggested tip amounts of 25, 30 and 50 percent at the bottom of the bill.
Welcome to New America. Expect to start seeing fees like this literally everywhere you go.
Voting (or not) has consequences.
As someone who has worked in a few service-oriented jobs, I support unfairly charging check users more. 😈
Do they mean checks as in cheques, or do they mean check as in when you ask for the check, e.g. every single bill is 5% more?
They mean the bill for the meal.
I’m assuming they mean “on all bills” because who pays by check anymore?
I’m just now realizing that I have only ever heard someone refer to a restaurant bill as a “check” when saying “check, please” or “can we get the check”?
Just. Tell. Me. The. Price.
Stop with this…
Wok is dead
Ah damn, they said the quiet part loud.
I once went to a restaurant that charged a 5% fee for paying by credit card. They only accepted credit cards.
I think it’s illegal, but how could I enforce this?
That is illegal in my state. I wrote a strongly worded email to a former landlord informing them of this when they tried to pull thos shit and they immediately backed down, presumably because a bunch of other people did the same thing. It is insane how often companies do just blatantly illegal shit in hopes that nobody will notice because the penalty for getting caught is basically just pay back the people who noticed they got scammed and maybe like a $50 fine that was set when $50 was a huge amount of money.
If the penalty for breaking the law is a flat fine, it isn’t a penalty, it’s a price.
This is only illegal in some states, but apparently you can get around it by reversing the praying and giving a discount for cash. Which is complete bullshit.
The discount for cash thing was based around credit card terms of service
Most credit cards used to require merchants to agree to charge the regular price for credit card transactions. If they found out a merchant was charging customers 2-5% more for credit cards to cover fees, they’d cut off the merchant so they could no longer accept their card. VISA would do it a lot, and no longer being able to accept VISA is a huge blow to any business
Businesses would use the workaround of a cash discount to avoid angering the credit card companies, but more recently it isn’t necessary. I’m not sure if it was a regulatory change or market pressures, but I haven’t heard of a merchant getting dropped for that in a while
It was illegal in NY. They’ve since used the loophole to charge you anyway
