California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.world – 1052 points – California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
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Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I'm ordering.

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"If it's in the core price of the menu, there will be a pullback" in patrons' spending, she told NPR shortly before the attorney general released the guidelines. "There are some people, I think, that are hoping that the restaurants will just absorb that cost, because we've seen people say, 'Oh, it's too expensive with the service charge.' "

If you add bullshit charges that are not added into the price on the menu, I don't return ever. So you may lose a couple patrons initially but they'll be back once they understand that is the general price. You will also get me back since there is no more possibility of bullshit charges.

Oh, so you mean people won't order your food if they know what the real price is? Well... fuck you

More that sticker shock will keep people from ordering an appetizer with a main meal if everything is $2-3 more expensive than when they last visited

unless it's previously posted clearly to see before I order, I'd just walk out and not pay, because that is otherwise called "fraud."

They do post it but it is in small print on a random ass part of the menu. Not technically fraud but absolutely bullshit.

We should all take the attitude that if a fee is hidden in any way, including fine print, it is absolutely fraud. There should be no tolerance for businesses trying to trick their customers.