San Francisco restaurants dread new state law banning service fees

I don't understand these restaurants jumping on this bandwagon of tacking on a bunch of idiotic fees. I think a lot of industries need to have a law passed against them to ban these kind of dumb service fees and addendums and fuel surcharges and whatnots. Expenses change so change your prices.

This example they give her this restaurant owner charging a 20% service fee. Just raise your prices by 20%. It's the same thing. Because often times they'll put these things on as it's a temporary measure because our costs have fluctuated quite quickly and when that goes away we'll remove it. The problem is it never gets removed we're still paying fuel surcharges and other surcharges and service fees and whatnot cuz they never come back off. Just raise the price so it's very clear what the overall price will be. Especially when your service fee is a flat percentage just raise your prices by 20%. Then people will get sticker shock at the price of your egg rolls. But I guess shocking them at the end is better because people in their lizard brain are stupid.