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Tax included in price means re-printing menus more often due to any state or local tax fluctuations though.

• woodruffw 3y ago
  I don't think this is a significant issue for most US restaurants. Except for nicer establishments, menus tend to be printouts that get replaced semi-regularly anyways. (Nicer restaurants also replace their menus regularly, but for different reasons: presenting a spotless and seasonal/rotating menu is part of their value proposition.)
• consp 3y ago
  Do they really change more often than regular price changes? And even if, would it be that much of an issue? As in: it works fine in the rest of the world.
  • tzs 3y ago
    How often do sales tax/VAT change in the rest of the world? I know it isn't often in Europe because I maintain the VAT tables at work for our Europe sales so have to deal with updating when it changes. We sell in 28 countries there, each with its own independent VAT, and since 2015 there have only been around 8 changes among all 28. Also in Europe VAT is per country. In the US sales tax at a given location is the sum of state sales tax, county sales tax, city sales tax, and possibly even special tax district sales taxes. The state rate usually doesn't change often, although it isn't as stable as Europe VAT rates. County and city rates aren't as stable, and there usually isn't coordination between the changes so if the state, county, and city are all going to raise rates in the next year they could easily end up each doing so in a different quarter.
• Ekaros 3y ago
  Do they really change taxes more than maybe one time in a year?
• splix 3y ago
  Considering that nowadays "the menu" is just a QR-code link to a web site it's not so much of a big deal. PS Also consider that the other counties have been able to print the menus regardless the tax fluctuations. It doesn't seem to be a problem.