Those 3, 5 and 20% fees at the bottom of your menu could be here to stay. With little time to spare, a new law will allow restaurants and bars to continue charging service fees, healthcare costs and other surcharges when listed clearly for diners to see. The practice was set to be outlawed beginning Monday.
On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1524, an emergency measure to exempt California food and beverage vendors from Senate Bill 478 — a law that goes into effect in July and targets ticket sellers, hotel and travel websites and other businesses that charge “hidden” or “junk” fees.
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No more restaurants for me. If you enjoy 500% inflation & 90% taxation…..keep voting blue!!!
So you’re saying we should put limitations on businesses in order to prevent excesses… right?
Where in that comment did Anon advocate for limitations on business? I comment I read has Anon foregoing patronizing restaurants and objecting to high costs of living and high taxes. How about you just read what’s written?
charles, Is everyone at MDUSD a communist?
Why do restaurants place fees? Just be honest and raise your menu prices. The fee thing is just to dupe the customer who may not see it.
Their’s nothing this P.O.S will not do to get votes.
Because he owns a bunch. What a creep, robbing us during difficult times. Restaurants are already overpriced
and lousy with cutbacks and poor service.
Karma will bite him and his D list Weinstein tramp..
I know it’s not nice to wish ill will on anyone, but I wish Newsom’s own restaurants would start suffering, and have to close! But apparently the liberal elites democrates still have alot of money.
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Total B.S.
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Thou Shall Not Tip until this exemption is repealed.
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^^^This 1,000%!!!! My new rule. I don’t always eat out, but when I do? No more tips!
Who’s with us?
Seems fair to me. Any tip will be reduced by a percentage equal to the service charge. And I will make the server aware of it at the same time I’m made aware of the service charge.
Boy, if that doesn’t secure the White House, I don’t know what could…..
i would think that would hurt the restaurant business….with the already high cost of eating out
How ironic, after Newsoms COVID lockdowns when 30% of California restaurants closed forever. Now he is throwing the rest of them a bone for their support by increasing prices to California customers. What’s he gonna do next for the fired fast food workers with his $25.00 an hour with
Benefits mandate. What a total sleazeball!
Whoe Jim
How about supporting that claim of 30% of restaurants closing, maybe with a link? At this stage, you appear to be just another MAGA spouter of BS.
https://youtu.be/lDcVyuVylYE?si=IhCPFxSfwWUEcLNT
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Gone now
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You democrats just figured out how wasted biden is, you obviously don’t pay attention to very much around you. Fortunately for you, some of us do. Low information voters acting like know it all’s. Are you actually supporting gavin newsom? Far out man
Its only MAGA BS to a lib unbeliever. Here’s your link. Literally took me 30 seconds to find it. Baaaaaaa.
https://abc7.com/restaurants-coronavirus-pandemic-covid/10663697/
Hey Old Goat, care to return to the conversation after checking the links provided?
Old Goat:
Here’s the link: Go out and about and see for real how many have closed(and other businesses too), instead of just spouting the liberal Democrat corrupt media propaganda drivel.
Pig Newsom just wants to destroy California then the USA. He’s a total psychopath. This certainly won’t help the restaurant industry whether a small locally owned cafe or a chain. This is like a totally unbelievable horror film. What else can he do to make our lives worse? 😡
So how many restaurants does he own or have investment in? or how many of his donating cronies does he have that have restaurants? … Newscum deserves the nickname
Plumpjack is his brand name He opened one at Squaw valley Palisades during Covid lockdown.
So just destroy the industry altogether?Pay raises already went to the customer
All those hidden fees … so they bring you with the promise of a $11.99 meal and then hit you with $20 in ‘service fees’.
These service fees should be posted in an obvious place on their website and on the menus and on the front door so that customers know what they are walking into, but I can almost guarantee that Newscum wants those fees hidden.
These types of short-sighted decisions are the basis for the birth of the term “bong hit”.
As in, “Only a bong hit would support this”.
“As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly” Proverbs 26:11
DEMs in charge don’t live like we do, they don’t bat an eye when it comes to effects of inflation.
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As proof U.S. Treasury Secretary janet yellen.
During an interview, “Yellen – who is worth about $20 million –
said she goes to the grocery store ‘every week’ and isn’t shocked by the prices.”
https://tinyurl.com/28pb5f9f
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‘Hey Janet Yellen, here is why Americans ARE feeling the effects of inflation
in the grocery store even if you aren’t’
https://tinyurl.com/2p9b37xz
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newsom, you think he can relate to what we go thru trying to keep a roof over our family and food on the table? Or how bills he signs into law will effect us financially?
He’s worth 20 MILLION DOLLARS.
CHum
Eat and drink at home.
Greasy Gavin doesn’t even know that honest law abiding hard working middle class responsible California citizens even exists.
The only thing that will ever affect him is what can benefit him monetarily, or politically.
Are the service fees taxable?
Once people start subtracting the service charge amount from the tip amount I’m sure the restaurants might second guess their actions when all the servers leave for a place that doesn’t have them. Or just raise the cost on the menu instead. People won’t complain as much if it’s just built into the price.
With this new law, will any of these extra fees or charges be clearly stated BEFORE you sit down at a table to order — or will they be a surprise AFTER you get your bill?
This is more of Bill Dodd’s work. He seems to hate Californians and humanity in general. What a jerk! He also took away the exemption for pure fruit juice bottles for CRV fees. The exemption was given for packaging of 100% food products such as 100% juice (no added sugar).
Ill just keep eating at home, after COVID in early 2020 I havent eaten out at a sit down restaurant more than 10 times and they all seemed over priced as it is for the sub par service with a service fee on top of it. The service
really turned me off, and doesnt make me want to return any more and will continue. Good job restaurant service industry for making me make more food at home, lost a lot of weight also during that time.
We’re going backwards, there’s a set minimum wage in effect
how about, no forced service fees, and stop taxing the tips.