What I mean is-
There’s a growing trend in Los Angeles (unsure about other American cities) where restaurants are starting to have surcharges or hospitality charges on top of the total bill that does not include gratuity so they can “pay their employees fairly” or it goes towards their healthcare. Or some other BS reason.
It’s becoming so bad that the r/LosAngeles has a Google sheet listing each restaurant not to dine at.
Asking for tips in general is getting out of control (places are all starting to use iPads which populate different percentages and bc many places are using them, asking for tips come up in places where you normally don’t get asked . Eg: a market)
A few months ago there was going to be a bill that banned these sort of charges but then it got reversed !
Have you seen this in your city ?
Edit: grammar