This report from Drudge is about restaurants in San Francisco starting to charge a “Health Fee” to cover government mandated contributions to “Healthy San Francisco”.
The author is outraged, outraged I tell ya. This is just another cost of doing business he says. Like electricity and health insurance.
He’s pretty sure the answer to his outrage is, wait for it,…………. a new law.
Normally I write about practical information travelers can use, and I avoid taking “there oughta be a law” soapbox positions. But it seems to me that hidden mandatory fees are becoming prevalent enough to warrant some sort of government action.
So restaurants want to be certain people know that they are not raising their prices on purpose in order to gouge their patrons. Instead they want you to know its the government that has forced them to cover yet a new expense. It’s even printed on the menu as such.
And this is bad because, I think, the author just wants all these fees hidden.
And he’s outraged about it. (calls it a “scam”) ???
He notes that
The charge actually is levied on employers, but at least some restaurants are adding a few dollars or percentage points to each customer’s bill to cover this charge.
I suppose in his junior high way of thinking he thinks that levying a fee on the employer will just cause the employer to bring home less bacon.
That don’t make no kind of sense.
Good luck out there Mr. Ed Perkins. You’ve got an acute lack of intelligence going on there.
