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no fee lunch
“The California restaurant industry was shocked on Tuesday to hear that a new law banning “junk fees” will apply to restaurant service charges. Many San Francisco restaurants charge service fees. The most common is a 5% or 6% SF Health Care Security Ordinance surcharge that restaurants use to cover city-mandated health coverage for employees. Some restaurants, like China Live, also charge customers a 20% service fee that goes to employees in lieu of the traditional tipping system. ‘You can’t just jack up prices. People are going to get sticker shock. Now a dish that was $20 before will be $26. People will notice that.’” SF Gate.
Epidermis reccomends an excellent Thai eatery at Larkin and Geary in San Francisco that has never charged a “fee” and includes all costs in the menu price ($). $26 is about the most expensive thing on the menu. Waitstaff get Epidermis’ tips in cash in person. What they do with them is not Epidermis’ concern.
The restaraunts charging “fees” are almost exclusively tourist traps (per diem expenses) and those that make their cash from alcohol, not food. Epidermis is not surprised that the owner of China Live believes mandatory “tips” are his cash to do with as he pleases, not the employees’. The result is institutionalized bad food and bad service. The health care surcharge is so the celebrity chefs don’t have to provide health care to not-celebrity staff. Do they actually think no one notices or cares when the price gets jacked up by 27% and then taxed 10.5% on top of the “fees” at the end of the meal? Yes they do!
The smooth life is going to get very very expensive and very very exclusive. Epidermis remembers asking his mother born in 1920, “What do you like to watch in movies?” “Rich people having fun.”
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