re: How do you feel about restaurants adding a 15% order surcharge?

Lucky you. From what I’ve experienced, many restaurants charge it. In fact many retailers in the food industry are charging(specialty meat establishments for example)

LOL
You poor thing. Are you 82 years old or older?

Anyone who uses the term immoral for this discussion sounds old

As long as patrons have advanced notice, I have no issue with it.

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I think this is totally immoral and horrible.

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And if the restaurant tells the customer before they seat them, it’s still immoral and horrible?

This is sad. You have business owners busting their arse trying to make money after being shutdown for two months and now only being able to open at 25% capacity.

And here you have the ignorant one's thinking the greedy owners are raking in the millions with a surcharge.

And don't forget Billy Graham in here talking about restaurants being immoral.
You can't make this stuff up.

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It’s tacky as shite to add that to a bill especially in the name of “helping employees”

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Anyone who raises their prices on each food item is going to just keep those forever.. even when they're no longer paying employees $850/week.

Whereas the 15% fee would presumably be removed when unemployment is no longer giving the $600 federal stimulus.

- Get PPP loan
- Do not have to pay it back if you get your employees back
- Call employees and they say "nah, making more on unemployment"
- In order to get your employees back and not have to pay back the loan, you match what they're making
- In order to afford to match while operating at 25%, you must raise prices or tack on a fee

Does it really matter if they opt for the service charge vs. raising prices across the board? Its the same thing, and if they raise prices, you can forget them coming back down after this ends.

I’m sure there was a sign somewhere

The government had really screwed the restaurant biz in the last couple of months. Companies are still having to pay workman’s comp and all the other things. Bills have not disappeared.

If they are going to not allow them to open, then either pay their bills for them or forgive them. That’s the bottom line.

Having said that, I’ve been tipping like a crazy person during this, because I know these guys are hurting. Don’t make me pay extra because the govt is fricking up your biz. Take your problems to them.

I’d refuse to pay a surcharge. I can’t imagine it’s legal.

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Get PPP loan
- Do not have to pay it back if you get your employees back
- Call employees and they say "nah, making more on unemployment"

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your right about all this. My buddy was told he missed out on the loan by ten minutes. Now he’s telling me how restaurants are worried about reopening because their employees are making 4K a month sitting at home.