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Yeah, 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/i
by the_snooze 5y ago
Yeah, 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.