SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Will Continue Adding Surcharges Following Last-Minute Law Signed Saturday Thanks to an emergency bill that was introduced in early June by the same lawmaker who co-sponsored the law banning "junk fees," an exception was carved out for the California restaurant industry to continue charging those unpopular surcharges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Restaurants Are Trying an Odd Legal Argument to Get Out of the Surcharge Ban Restaurateurs in California are very nervous about how their businesses will fare when they have to stop adding surcharges to customers' checks and either raise menu prices or lower wages, or both, starting in July.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Surcharges Are Set to Disappear This Summer Under New State Law Unless the attorney general backtracks in any way, come July, restaurants in California will no longer be able to add service charges and other surcharges to customers' checks — and this will mean that the price of drinks and dishes will likely go up significantly.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Has Done Away With 10% 'Dine-In' Surcharge, But Will Add 5% Charge Emerging from the pandemic, San Francisco restaurant Che Fico took a controversial approach to realigning the economics of dining, and now they're backing off a bit, at least by 5%.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants That Bilked Employees Will Pay $2M In Delinquent Healthy SF Surcharges The final tally is in for the dozens of local restaurants being investigated for withholding money earmarked for employee health care. Under City Attorney Dennis Herrera's special enforcement plan, which offered 50 percent
