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Kids shells are $16 each? Fuck this place.
Yeah, it looks like this person just went to an overpriced restaurant.
Dining at the Ritz and then throwing a fit over your bill is… idk, man. Maybe you should have walked out before ordering a $6 glass of lemonade.
That’s not the point though… it’s that everything is 18% more than advertised on the menu, regardless of whether the original price was high or fair.
it’s that everything is 18% more than advertised on the menu
More than that if you factor in sales taxes. Or “valet only”. Nevermind tip.
Definitely qualifies as mildly infuriating, but this sort of bullshit surcharge is standard fair for upscale retail in the service sector.
Restaurant: $11 cannelloni and $6 beer.
Lemmy: fuck the rich for paying these high prices!
What are “kids shells”?
Likely a kids pasta shell dish.
Besides from a extra fee (which would be illegal in my country), who tf could afford 32$+18%+taxes for two bowls of pasta? At my local italian restaurant you get 2 bowls spagethi for 20€ (including taxes)
A kids size no less. Actually insane.
Capitalists when 10% taxes vs capitalists when 18% fee
Increase the price of everything and pay a life supporting amount of money per hour of work. No tipping, no more service charge.
This service charge is literally the same but blaming the employees.
Because reprinting the menu is too expensive. 😢
Printing a menu means they can’t constantly alter the price. Did I say alter? I should have said raise.
What kind of time warp is this though where tipping recs start at 8%. I never see that anymore.
I’ve seen this at restaurants serving more than a given number of people. Did you attend a dinner with a large group?
I’ve been seeing it more regardless of group size. I went to a restauraunt alone and they had the audacity to charge a service fee and ask for a fucking tip
I wouldve tipped more than the service charge! So I gave nothing instead
That is super frustrating. Especially if the “service charge” isn’t really going to pay the staff a living wage. I’d be curious to hear from someone that works in a restaurant that does this whether or not they are actually being paid better after it has been implemented or if it is just cash grab by the individual restaurant owner/operator. Any takers?
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It’s crazy how it’s your job to pay the workers when you’re not employing them. Just put the damn living wage into the price of the food, there, done. I’m going to a restaurant to eat stuff, not to haggle the worth of someone’s work.
Well you are employeeing them, in that you’re exchanging your money for the product of their labor, it just passes through a few hands to get to them.
But but but if customers know how much it’s going to cost ahead of time, they might decide to go somewhere else!
I don’t see how paying your workers is infuriating
Tips exist because servers were/are paid below minimum wage. A service charge should replace the tip, not be added on top of it. Or the restaurant should factor labor costs into the price of their meals. The owners are double dipping to shift the cost onto the consumer.
I’ve been to a couple places in Denver that do this and obviously it’s bullshit. Just raise the prices! Not 18%, though, they’re 5% and started when everyone felt bad for restaurant workers during Covid. At both of them they had a disclaimer “if you disagree with this charge, we will gladly remove it”… as if that’s a comfortable thing to do to save $4.
I get mandatory tips on large parties as long as the policy is made clear before ordering. But like you said, service charges are ridiculous and so are mandatory tips for small groups.
Germany:
Price indication regulation (Preisangabenverordnung)
All prices stated on the menu must include any applicable surcharges. In other words, the price of the meal is also the final price. The quantity served must also be stated for drinks.
The OP should have shared the restaurant, what a dick head of an owner
To be honest restaurants became so expensive so long ago that we just stopped going to them. I cant even remember when that was, but it was more than 5 years ago for sure. And things sound like theyve gotten a lot worse since then so I cant see us ever going back.
$11 for a cannoli? Gotta lotta nerve with that price!
Anyone who wants to rant about how Lemmy is all tankies and fringe leftists oughta come see what happens when underpaid workers have the gall to so much as stink eye a customer who doesn’t tip.
In below cost of living income jobs tipping isn’t a reward for good service, it’s the “not a callous fuckface” tax for people who actually care about making sure their fellow workers don’t fucking starve over their bosses’ greed.
Got a problem with it, call a congressman, otherwise, stop using service work if you’re not willing to pay the actual full price for the service.
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A receipt from a restaurant. A white circle was marked up on the photo and inside reads the text
18% Service Charge (18.00%)
$17.22
The full receipt text shown is as follows.
Ordered: 11/11/23 6:31 PM
GARLIC BREAD $4.90
2 KIDS SHELLS $32.50
FUSILLI $20.75
CANNOLI $11.00
LEMONADE $6.00
DRIP COFFEE $4.50
2 DRAFT BEER $12.00
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE $4.00
18% Service Charge (18.00%)
$17.22
Subtotal $112.87
Tax $10.73
Total $123.60
Cash -$123.60
Amount Due $0.00
------------------------------------------
Suggested Tip:
8%: (Tip $7.65 Total $131.25)
10%: (Tip $9.56 Total $133.16)
12%: (Tip $11.48 Total $135.08)
15%: (Tip $14.35 Total $137.95)
Tip percentages are based on the check price before discounts and taxes.
The service charge is not a tip or gratuity, and is an added fee controlled by the restaurant that helps facilitate a higher living base wage for all of our employees. Please scan the QR code at the top of the receipt for additional information, or speak with a manager.
Really. What’s the new base wage? And if there’s better wage, the tip should be commensurately reduced.
[The service charge is] an added fee controlled by the restaurant that helps facilitate a higher living base wage
Great! I don’t need to tip because they already pay their employees a fair wage.
So the patron not only pays for the food/service, but there’s a separate fee to pay for ALL employees living wages??
If this trend continues the customers will end up making the food too!? Lol, I would talk to the manager for sure.
