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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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.

...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."