News
Share
Published 00:29 23 Sept 2023 BST
Updated 00:36 23 Sept 2023 BST

A Vietnamese restaurant in California has come under fire after a customer shared a photo of his receipt which included an 18% service charge for "parties of one or larger".
The Reddit user explained: “I’ve seen restaurants include gratuity when it’s a large party but never for parties of 1!”
Their meal has a subtotal of $49.50 but ended up costing $62.93 thanks for the eight dollar fee plus sales tax.
Many people responded to the picture on Reddit in anger.
One wrote: “That’s the tip as far as I’m concerned." Another wrote: "F that then. Just another place I wouldn't need to eat out at."
A third said: "No better way of saying 'we definitely do not pay our workers enough."
Another wrote: "Back when I was delivering pizzas at Pizza Hut they had a 5.0% service fee on every order. Several times a shift I would get people complaining about the service fee, and some times they would call the store after delivery and demand back the tip they gave when they placed their order online since “the service fee was already the tip.” I never saw a dime out of those “service fees” it went straight into the owners pocket."
While another said: "It's crazy that in America you can just have whatever random hidden fees you like."
It sure is.
How hot is too hot to work under UK law as red weather warnings issued
The heatwave has arrived! Brits across the country are feeling the heat, as the mercury soars this week, and red weather warnings have been issued for parts of the country. The previous amber warning has been upgraded to a red ‘danger to life’ extreme heat weather warning by the Met Office. With Keir Starmer cranking […]
News
13h
OPINION: Starmer was wrong in a world that doesn’t know how to be right
Starmer failed because modern politics no longer rewards competence. It rewards performance. Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation today, bringing to an end a premiership that was as relentlessly criticised as it was quietly consequential. In an address to the nation on Monday morning from Downing Street, Starmer gave an emotional speech in which he […]
News
13h
Keir Starmer resigns as UK prime minister
News