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Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I'm ordering.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"If it's in the core price of the menu, there will be a pullback" in patrons' spending, she told NPR shortly before the attorney general released the guidelines. "There are some people, I think, that are hoping that the restaurants will just absorb that cost, because we've seen people say, 'Oh, it's too expensive with the service charge.' "

If you add bullshit charges that are not added into the price on the menu, I don't return ever. So you may lose a couple patrons initially but they'll be back once they understand that is the general price. You will also get me back since there is no more possibility of bullshit charges.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so you mean people won't order your food if they know what the real price is? Well... fuck you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

More that sticker shock will keep people from ordering an appetizer with a main meal if everything is $2-3 more expensive than when they last visited

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

unless it's previously posted clearly to see before I order, I'd just walk out and not pay, because that is otherwise called "fraud."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They do post it but it is in small print on a random ass part of the menu. Not technically fraud but absolutely bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We should all take the attitude that if a fee is hidden in any way, including fine print, it is absolutely fraud. There should be no tolerance for businesses trying to trick their customers.