{"id":15073,"date":"2018-07-09T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=15073"},"modified":"2018-07-09T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:00:41","slug":"more-than-200-nyc-restaurants-demand-right-to-add-a-surcharge-to-bills-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/more-than-200-nyc-restaurants-demand-right-to-add-a-surcharge-to-bills-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 200 NYC Restaurants Demand Right to Add a Surcharge to Bills &#8211; Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Presently, it is not legal in New York for restaurants to tack a surcharge on to patron\u2019s bills, but that could change in the near future. Over 200 restaurants have submitted a written request to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking for his support on lifting the ban on restaurants to charge a fully disclosed fee to diners. According to the New York City Hospitality Alliance, this would reduce regulatory burdens on restaurants and help them to remain financially solvent. In 2016, a proposed bill focused on lifting the ban failed to gain any momentum in the New York legislature.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">This notice about the surcharge was originally released by the NYC Hospitality Alliance.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Owners of eateries are worried about how they will cover the extra costs, even with menu prices rising.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Diners are looking forward to this change due to their overall bill ending up being a smaller portion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;The idea is that tacking on a surcharge keeps the list price of dishes lower, a way to offset increasing costs while making it seem like prices haven\u2019t gone up significantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantnewsresource.com\/article99559.html\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.restaurantnewsresource.com\/article99559.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 32FESTC2NHQR3DB21RGIUXF02H5CUV 323Q6SJS8IGVONNLIW4M786XXKVFH1 A1BCNYPY66VAZ6)(authorquote 31JUPBOORN4M8KYVB18C1ONYZ028L4 39RP059MEHTR3KCG4RY3GNN8Z96BMU A3TD3PWJ8BU2H1)(keypoints 37NXA7GVST6KJWU8JUJMT276AY4VLX 3LS2AMNW5FQ27TZH0PA63G7CGA2QOI AVU1N78F92K93)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presently, it is not legal in New York for restaurants to tack a surcharge on to patron\u2019s bills, but that could change in the near future. Over 200 restaurants have submitted a written request to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking for his support on lifting the ban on restaurants to charge a fully disclosed fee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}