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Great way to lose customers.
You gotta raise prices? Raise prices. But nobody likes getting random extras at the end of their bills.
Just. Tell. Me. The. Price.
Stop with this…
We have raised prices by 5% to avoid having to update all the menus we will just add it to the bottom line.
They still updated the menu with this though lol
It costs way less to print ONE page to a menu than raising prices and making a whole new menu… duh! Makes sense!
People are more price sensitive to different menu items. This allows them to avoid that. Even if you know about the fee.
we have raised prices by 5%. this allows us to avoid raising prices by 5%
They were just too lazy to update the prices for each item on the menu. A note at the bottom and called it a day
In most states this is explicitly illegal in food service.
Welcome to New America. Expect to start seeing fees like this literally everywhere you go.
Voting (or not) has consequences.
I bet they also have suggested tip amounts of 25, 30 and 50 percent at the bottom of the bill.
Wok is dead
my favorite kind of hidden fees is when a client pushes a revision clause into a contract for research projects (read: fudge the numbers to their vision of the world) but during legal back and forth the per hour rate for revisions emerges and the client totally misses it and then benign 5k small-scale project gets an extra 10k price tag because those “can we present data with slightly different dimensions?” add up real fast and tough shit.
The deli at my local grocery store sets out pre-sliced meats so we can avoid waiting. They started flipping the packages over to hide the price recently due to the price increase.
Not everything is a conspiracy. The presliced lunch meat trays are labeled with what is in them, they’re meant to be shown product forward, not scale label first.
Very smart guy. I wonder why they used to display them other side up, and only changed it when they raised the prices? Hmm 🤦♀️
Honestly, unless there person doing it is the owner it is probably because the employee is sick of hearing about it because they can’t do anything.
A district manager noticed they were being displayed backwards. The deli manager went to a training class and fixed something they were doing wrong. A new deli manager transferred from another store and trained her new people to do the job correctly. A new deli backup went to train in a different location and learned something they were doing wrong. A different assistant manager was put in charge of deli and corrected the behavior. They were hosting a district meeting and when all the district leadership came to help prep the store, they were retrained.
These are all real life scenarios that happen in real grocery stores. I’m pretty confident that the shitty scale label was never meant to be facing forward, regardless of the price. If they are “hiding” the price, then why are they not hiding the 50 price tags in the service case over at the deli counter where they sliced it in the first place?
Good one!
If I read this on a menu in a situation where I could go elsewhere, I would.
I might say this could be a temporary way around having to pay to get all your menus reprinted, but these doofuses appear to have printed it directly on the menu. So yeah, they can get fucked with an egg beater.
Is there an upcharge for said fucking.
5%
So yeah, they can get fucked with an egg beater.
🤣
there’s a shitty restaurant near me that does this.
they call it the ‘honest to goodness fee’ and state the fee is to ensure they can bring us the lowest possible prices, by charging 3% on the whole bill… when I saw it on the menu after sitting down, I left.
I don’t participate in bait/switch pricing since it’s illegal
That’s insane to me. It’s literally just a sales tactic so they can look cheaper on their menu but you still pay the increased prices. I would have left also.
It’s not a “sales tactic” it’s just fraud.
It can be both.
Kind of funny they try to spin it as good for customers
It means you don’t have to tip.
If you’re not going to tip, then don’t eat there. You giving the tip to the owner isn’t going to change anything.
Where I live, if the prices need to be higher to stay in business and give your staff a good wage, the prices just get raised. We don’t tip except for rounding when it’s cash. So I don’t think adding an extra cost is weird, but it should be in the prices, and American tipping culture should go back into the hole it came from.
The person you’re punishing has the least control over the situation, even if the punishment is small. Screwing over workers only makes it more American.
He’s not American. People in Europe get a somewhat liveable wage that doesn’t rely on tips.
They did make that pretty clear! If they weren’t going to tip or their tip doesn’t matter, then holding out doesn’t matter either. If their tip was going to matter, then they’ve screwed over the employee and not the employer at all.
If you are upholding tipping culture you are literally part of the reason as to why they need tips.
Sounds like i need to open a *Everything’s $1 ** store and just make sure I get the fine print squared away…
99c and up
I once went to a restaurant that charged a 5% fee for paying by credit card. They only accepted credit cards.
I think it’s illegal, but how could I enforce this?
That is illegal in my state. I wrote a strongly worded email to a former landlord informing them of this when they tried to pull thos shit and they immediately backed down, presumably because a bunch of other people did the same thing. It is insane how often companies do just blatantly illegal shit in hopes that nobody will notice because the penalty for getting caught is basically just pay back the people who noticed they got scammed and maybe like a $50 fine that was set when $50 was a huge amount of money.
If the penalty for breaking the law is a flat fine, it isn’t a penalty, it’s a price.
“Legal tender for all debts public and private” is a guarantee backed by the treasury. if you owe the restaurant a debt, they are legally obligated to accept cash tender. Note that you have to actually owe them, you can’t demand they accept cash tender up front, they have the right to refuse the terms of sale. if you can successfully argue their card only policy was not successfully communicated, then you have a case. I ANAL.
When BussyGyatt says I ANAL, I believe it.
Yes but, the USA is borderline anarchy nowadays (yes, I am exaggerating a bit here)… rules and laws only matter if they are applied and enforced uniformly and currently, they are not…
I’ve Karened out with cash on the table a few times and got away with it.
yeah im with the boomers on this one. paper menus too, fuck your qr code.
This is only illegal in some states, but apparently you can get around it by reversing the praying and giving a discount for cash. Which is complete bullshit.
The discount for cash thing was based around credit card terms of service
Most credit cards used to require merchants to agree to charge the regular price for credit card transactions. If they found out a merchant was charging customers 2-5% more for credit cards to cover fees, they’d cut off the merchant so they could no longer accept their card. VISA would do it a lot, and no longer being able to accept VISA is a huge blow to any business
Businesses would use the workaround of a cash discount to avoid angering the credit card companies, but more recently it isn’t necessary. I’m not sure if it was a regulatory change or market pressures, but I haven’t heard of a merchant getting dropped for that in a while
It was illegal in NY. They’ve since used the loophole to charge you anyway
Illegal in Germany for a good reason.
