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What actually hapens in practice is that the sandwich place will advertise $7 sandwiches on their menu, but in small print say they'll automatically add an "opt
by the_snooze 5y ago
What actually hapens in practice is that the sandwich place will advertise $7 sandwiches on their menu, but in small print say they'll automatically add an "optional" $1 fee to all items at check-out.
It's far beyond what's needed to cover increased wages, and they don't even have the guts to list prices honestly.
- voisin 5y agoSounds like tipping, but optional to the business what makes it to the employees.
- monkpit 5y agoSource for the “optional” thing? I tried searching for this but didn’t find anything.
- sushid 5y agoNot sure about OP but in my experience, SF has so many hidden fees for restaurants it's not even funny. Restaurants were tacking on COVID surcharge fee on top of the SF mandate fee that they were imposing on diners. Tack on tax and tip and you literally have four additional fees on top of what you see on a menu.
- the_snooze 5y agoYeah, I'm referring to the Bay Area (Berkeley in particular). Here's a sandwich shop in Berkeley adding a 50-cent fee in 2016: https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/ikes-love-and-sandwiches-berkeley-6?select=AHUAJ2HiO_KOfgO1RMid6A https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/ikes-love-and-sandwiches-ber... They claim it's for transparency, but they were still advertising fee-less prices on the menu the last time I was there. You'd only see this sign at the check-out counter. Here's a Yelp review complaing about just that (raised to 75 cents as of 2018): https://www.yelp.com/biz/ikes-love-and-sandwiches-berkeley-6?hrid=dcNxYK_Crl0bprulJaoz9w&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct) https://www.yelp.com/biz/ikes-love-and-sandwiches-berkeley-6...
- kbelder 5y agoWow, what a hellscape. (No offense, SF residents.) I've never seen anything like that anywhere else.
- mgkimsal 5y agoa few shops in town added 'extra fee' notices a few months in to the covid outbreak (may 2020?). "We are having to add a 50c surcharge per beef entree" "Each burger has a 50c surcharge" etc. Later this went to 50c charges for all meats (chicken or beef or whatever). In the short term, it was to avoid having to reprint all signage/menus/etc when they were unsure how long things would go on. I think in the restaurants in our town, they've just raised prices and don't advertise the 'surcharge' any longer.
- pydry 5y agoSF landlords demand more rent than anywhere else.
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