I got this fun fee after trying to order takeout from Buffalo Wild Wings (yes I’m naming and shaming). How exactly does adding a dollar help you operate takeout? It’s literally less work than waiting on a table. This is nothing more than a shameful cash grab to pad profits.
I cancelled my order and got local street tacos instead.
EDIT: Look what I found this morning, lol https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/buffalo-wild-wings-takeout-fee-backlash-complaint-rcna90228
If they have a $4.40 table area credit to compensate me for the lack of physical rental space I’m not taking up, and a $0.35 silverware wash&roll power, water, and labor credit, plus a $1.25 parking space credit for the hour I’m not using the lot, and a $0.45 reception/waiting area credit for not standing around paying someone to call me when my table is ready, then I’d accept the $1.00 boxing fee. But if I’m paying the cost of waiting to be seated, taking up a table for an hour, and parking - which is bundled into the entree price - I think they can spot me a take out container.
(Interesting that places like Gregg’s, Costa, and Pret sometimes actually do charge more if you eat in)
Just FYI, the eat in price difference (at least from Costa) are actually usually because of taxes that you don’t have to pay when you take out.
Food taxes are weird
TIL
A dollar fee seems like a small price to pay to not have to deal with you as a customer.
Yeah, you don’t want reasonable people as customers or shit like this won’t be acceptable!
Yes, I agree. Death to anyone who tries to turn a profit of checks notes $0.70.
And yet they’re charging me, not paying me.
But, also, they’re going to lose out to ghost kitchens if they keep adding these fees…and when they go out of business they’ll never have to deal with people like me again. Win-win, I guess.