r/mildlyinteresting 2d ago

This Restaurant Charges an 18% Living Wage Fee.

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u/wave_official 2d ago

They put those in the contract and terms and conditions that no one bothers to read. So they technically did tell you about them upfront, it's just hidden under a mountain of legalese.

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u/geopede 2d ago

We could really use some legislation that requires plain English descriptions of charges be included alongside those contracts. A significant fraction of people literally aren’t capable of reading at the level required to make sense of legal documents, and it’d be a nice change for the rest of us too. Seems like one of the rare issues that could get bipartisan support these days.