re: Higher end places saying they will insert a 3% surcharge for credit cards

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The problem is places didn't charge customers the 3% way back, decades ago, in the beginning whenever these charges started. Why should a restaurant have to pick up the tab for you to use your credit card?

The majority of people do not know that that, wherever you use your card, there is a service fee. A business should never have to eat that fee.

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They should just treat it as they do every other overhead expense to them, just bake it into the price of the items on the menu.

When you see your receipt do you want to see:

x-utilities
y-staff salaries
z-cost of food

etc...