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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Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I'm ordering.
I think clear signage and message on the bill indicating "tipping is optional, service charges is included in the menu price" should suffice.
Making tipping illegal goes too far, but I am okay with implementing it for couple decades, in order to correct a bad habit.
OP said “asking for a tip”. If I want to tip a particularly good server experience, everyone should be free to do so. But asking for it, and it comes to mind those places that explicitly stipulate that 10% is minimum mandatory tipping, should be illegal. That's a hidden fee, not a tip.
10%?? I don't think I've seen less than 15 in years
Agreed. Though I was at the UPS store and they had a tip jar.
I was like: who the heck tips at the UPS store?
UPS: "We noticed you didn't tip. Would be a shame if your package didn't... Make it."
Then we are back to where we started where tipping is a guild riddled demand
Pay waiting staff a livable wage and include that in the price, no tipping
People can't let go of tipping. A few restaurants near me tried it and ended up closing.
Tipping isn't just a part of culture but it also breaks up the spend for the consumer. You commit to a $15 burger now, then the $3 of tip later. Integrating the tips with the cost makes it seem like everything is more expensive and also makes it not optional for how much you give.
Which is why it needs to be a law all restaurants must follow, instead of a few trying.
...That's why people don't like the service fees, etc. It's difficult to know, as a consumer, how much you're actually being asked to spend. If you're rich, haha who cares? Everybody else has to do this thing called "budgeting."