As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, more restaurants are adding surcharges and fees at the bottom of their bills, passing on rising costs to consumers …
As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, more restaurants are adding surcharges and fees at the bottom of their bills, passing on rising costs to consumers when dining out. Typically, restaurateurs get their income from pre-tax and tip meal totals which cover the costs of operating their business. To offset additional costs such as increasing wages, adding COVID protocols, rising costs caused by the pandemic, some restaurants have been adding fees to try to make ends meet. Choice Restaurant Concepts, a restaurant group in Colorado Springs, Colorado, blames inflation for having to add a new surcharge at its five area eating establishments. « Rather than raise prices throughout the company, we decided to charge a 5% fee to off set the current cost differences, » Choice Restaurant Concepts states on their website. « The reason that we chose this route was because it allows YOU the consumer to hold us accountable for when we remove it.
