Restaurants are beginning to add healthcare surcharges to diners' bills to help cover the cost of health insurance and paid sick leave for employees, reports New York Post. Foreign & Domestic, in Austin, Texas, began adding a 3 percent surcharge to bills to help provide what it calls "great" health insurance, and although customers can ask to have the charge removed, co-owner Sarah Heard notes most have not. Hoover's Cooking, meanwhile, institutes a mandatory $1 "community value contribution," the details of which are outlined in a note from owner Hoover Alexander, which is provided with menus.
Restaurants in Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco have instituted similar charges, as well. Heard adds that while the practice has drawn its critics, most are not regular customers. "We have received the most negative feedback from sources who have never dined with us, may not understand how small we are, [and] are generally unaware of how the [restaurant] industry works." Full Story
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