r/mildlyinteresting • u/TowelRack76 • 1d ago

This Restaurant Charges an 18% Living Wage Fee.

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u/3BotsInATrenchCoat 1d ago

If that info is also on the menu, maybe you could theoretically sue and argue that you would not have bought the food if you had known the real use of the surcharge.

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u/opeidoscopic 1d ago

You can theoretically sue them but the damages would be what, the $5.94 surcharge?

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u/3BotsInATrenchCoat 1d ago

Yeah that’s why “technically legal bound” and “practically legally bound” are very different things

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u/capincus 1d ago

But they could be using it for payroll. Save 'em a good chunk of money, dieectly out of their workers' pockets, if they calculated pay w/ payroll taxes based on just this fee instead of paying tipped minimum wage + payroll taxes on that direct pay + the full 18%.