Why you're still seeing dining surcharges long after end of COVID restrictions
If you're dining out, check your check. It's likely you'll find a fee that wasn't there a few years ago.
"I've seen it, and I don't like it," frequent restaurant visitor Chip Murphy of Des Plaines said last week as he sampled the fare at Taste of Park Ridge. by signing up you agree to our terms of service "A typical small business restaurant makes about 3 to 5 cents pretax on every dollar spent in the restaurant," she said.
Ward said the costs for food, alcohol, staffing and insurance have increased more than his slim margins can handle. So like other local restaurant groups such as Lettuce Entertain You and Moretti's, he instituted a surcharge on checks late last year.Ward added a 2%"food surcharge" to diner's checks. It's also printed on his restaurants' menus.
"The restaurant consumer goes to the grocery store and knows what they can buy a burger for, but they don't know all the other costs sunk in to give them that burger," he said.
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