Can they go after restaurants adding mandatory 20% fees? I don’t mind paying more to pay for ethical pay for employees but adding a mandatory 20% free us just lying about menu prices. It should illegal. Just bake the price into the menu prices.
It is essentially a tip, but it’s listed on the bottom of the menu as a mandatory service charge. The restaurant keeps the money (it’s not split like case tips) and just pay the employees a good wage without them relying on tips.
Yeah, I’d say the same about any “fees” that get tacked on above any advertised prices. The only time it shouldn’t be included in an advertised price is when it doesn’t scale with number of things purchased. So a % fee would always be included, but flat fees can be separated (like if they had a table charge or something that didn’t change based on how much food was ordered).
Online shop “convenience” fees are at the top of my mind for this. Especially because there’s even more convenience on the merchant’s side due to how websites scale vs brick and mortar shops. They might have to pay large salaries to developers and IT people (emphasis on “might”), but that’ll be much less than the leases and staffing costs to open physical stores to serve the same size of market.
Agreed. The only fee I can swallow is mom-and-pop stores and governments charging a small fee for credit card processing.
In the government’s case, law only provides for them to charge $X and they must gather $X. They can’t make up for the provider fees. Legislation should roll that into consideration moving forward.
Or even better, create a public payment infrastructure that isn’t predatory to both merchants and consumers. Finance being a private industry instead of a public service is a part of the problem.
But I agree that that is an example of a good use of fees. “Oh, if you do this thing, it costs more money to service you, so rather than pricing it in for everyone regardless of whether they do it, just charge the difference when it is done.”
This is Capitalism 101 my friend. Don’t go to those places. They’ll kill themselves off or adjust. As an exercise to the student, explain why you have to give such cretinous establishments your money.
As to voluntary tips, funny thing, you only see consumers complaining, never the wait staff. Worked at a payroll firm that serviced several local restaurants and brother, some of those people make bank.
You know what’s way, way more effective than the invisible hand of the “free” market? Regulation. Hidden fees at restaurants are almost non-existent here in Australia, and if you ever encounter one, because it’s illegal, you can just not pay it, what are they gonna do? And so the business either quickly stops doing it, or they end up with a fine from the ACCC 🤗
Also, as a former cafe employee, let me tell ya, I was much happier being paid a guaranteed wage than relying on tips. Which for morality’s sake, is practically another hidden fee.
It’s called a hidden fee for a reason, it’s hidden from you. So, yeah, it’s a non-option for first time patrons.
Why are you defending these business? Inb4 you say, I’m not, but the free market will correct this! The “free” market clearly isn’t, because we’re talking about it right now lol, hidden fees are common place in many places in the US.
And regulation (in Australia, for this issue), clearly IS working, because this is practically unheard of here.
fast food or dine in? it’s funny because the less “corporate” the restaurant, the more likely it is that they’re getting a lot of their ingredients in the same place that you get yours
The human race is an unscientific way of saying single species of human called homosapiens. There aren’t more, just us multicolored assholes. Now replace “race” with the real thing… “Trumpfus persists in insulting Harris by calling her a fake black person as his campaign flounders since shooting: 'I think I’m fucking racist”
Price fixing is temporary, and doomed to fail in the long term. Nixon tried it with an Executive Order and it was a disaster. It caused supply chain constraints and prices shot well past inflation when the Order expired.
Congressional legislation setting grocery store presentation limits would increase brand variety, foster competitive pricing, and put an end to the corporate control over pricing.
Limiting the number of products and facings in a store by percent of available retail space.
Limiting the number of products alone doesn’t suffice, because larger companies will pay retailers to increase the number of facings of a product to keep out competition in that product space.
It was extremely lucrative for her the first time, she’s a ghoul driven only by greed, and it’d be even MORE lucrative if they get back in with a plan to dismantle all the systems in place to protect the country from leeches like her.
They wanted to cause enough controversy so that Mike Pence could not certify the results and they could point to the few states they attempted this scheme in. This Arizona part of the scheme is step 1.
So basically…
Find a few States to make up “voter fraud” in, and flood the courts with made-up voter fraud challenges.
Mike Pence says, well because of all these issues there is clearly potential fraud so I won’t certify the election results.
Trump remains president and then takes the next steps to ensure he remains president and dictator .
The whole plan was a complete success except step 2, Mike Pence didn’t go along with the plan, so that’s when Trump ordered his supporters to attack the capital on Jan.6 to prevent the certification that way, which also failed.
I really don’t like Mike Pence but he single handedly saved America that day.
He saved it that day only for trump to continue to get away with multiple crimes that should see him locked away in prison forever. And then continue on to try and steal the election again in 2024 while constantly telling his followers that Democrats are the ones that are cheats who are stealing elections without any fucking irony whatsoever. And his dumbass followers are too far gone to even try to figure out the truth so we’ll be seeing an even bigger effort from them to steal the election yet again.
It’s just completely fucking stupid that people are being charged and locked up for crimes they committed at the command of a massive piece of shit and yet that massive piece of shit is somehow not responsible for the crimes he commanded others to do.
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