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"Then there’s the misc fees. A random X% Covid, inflation, health insurance cost." ????
by themitigating 3y ago
"Then there’s the misc fees. A random X% Covid, inflation, health insurance cost."
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- wirthjason 3y agoHere’s some news about it. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/25/23570024/restaurants-surcharges-chicago-restaurant-week-dining-out https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/25/23570024/restaurants-... An additional 3% fee (for whatever) is common. You can ask to have to taken off, but then I feel like an asshole. I get that things might cost more — rent, raw materials, staff, etc. The business should build that into the price upfront. It feels like a dirty trick to disclose it at the end and puts me, the customer, in an awkward spot that makes me feel bad.
- scelerat 3y agoAs a muted protest to municipal, county or state mandates requiring employers to pay for employees' health insurance, some businesses -- restaurants especially -- have taken to exposing this cost to the customer in the form of an added fee.
- dataflow 3y agoI feel like what's wrong with it isn't the exposure of the price breakdown to customers, but the lack of exposure of the final price until the last moment.
- themitigating 3y agoSo they mark how much employee insurance is costing them, do they also breakdown their profit? Since business like restaurants often price based on a margin doesn't inflation sometimes increase profits? I also don't understand protesting inflation a global phenomenon (in varying amounts) that is difficult to solve.
- ZekeSulastin 3y agoA bunch of places in the US have added additional percentage fees in lieu of raising their marked prices (someone in another thread mentioned an “employee wellness fee”, for instance).
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