News and notes from around the interweb:
- You can pre-order up to $269 of snacks in United Airlines economy. Someone should do this and film all these snack boxes and Pringles cans being delivered to their seat.
You can preorder snacks and beverages on United flights, and apparently it tops out at $269 per person.
That’s a lot of Pringles. pic.twitter.com/8uKFD31kTQ
— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) March 5, 2024
- American Airlines doesn’t actually have much opportunity in the small domestic market flying it touts. They’re leaning into reliability, small domestic and international short haul markets, and AAdvantage (not product or service) but they don’t have those markets to themselves as they claim.
- Teen spends ~ $11,000 a year to live on a train
- Inside the renovation of the Grand Hyatt Singapore funny thing is that this hotel a decade ago would have been an improvement over most properties today and I wish there was a Straits Kitchen here in the U.S.
- $782,000 jackpot hits at Las Vegas airport
- The room rate covers staying at the resort, so what’s a resort fee?
Anyone know what a “restaurant fee” is?
Isn’t the whole thing a restaurant fee?? pic.twitter.com/druu4NcN3C
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) March 4, 2024
“Restaurant fee” equals scammy profit.
They will undoubtedly be sold out / have not loaded of many of those snack boxes.
If you pay $29 for a cheeseburger at a place called Horses on Sunset Boulevard you probably deserve a restaurant fee.
I’ve had that burger at Horses. It’s pretty good. Cornish game hen is better.
Also…
https://la.eater.com/2023/5/26/23738970/horses-restaurant-will-aghajanian-liz-johnson-hollywood-catbird-seat-mimi
I am initiating a “Me-Fee”. Simply for having the pleasure of living in a world with Thing 1, everyone owes me a $1.95 monthly fee. Twenty percent tips on top of this are appreciated, although not as appreciated as 25% tips. Thank you for your support.
The minimum wage in Los Angeles is $16.78 so you can be sure that the price of all served food is higher due to the minimum wage. That minimum wage applies to all workers including servers. So giving a tip of 20% is probably like a 25% tip or more in many locations that use the federal minimum wage for servers. The one good thing about their suggested tips is that the tips are for food only.
@Thing 1 … Your “me-fee” is an appropriate idea . Why not ?
A 5% restaurant fee is “cool. that’s your tip. GFYS”.
Yes, if Jason orders 16 snackboxes, 8 cans of Pringles, and multiple cans of the other snacks, as shown on the bill, he will indeed spend $295.
The unviewable twitter comments probably say the same thing. Not news.
The “restaurant fee” is a surcharge fee that restaurants use to pay for health care, etc. Many restaurants have done this, actually calling it other names like “health care for employees” to provide healthcare, etc., to employees.
Well, it never helps employees. In CA, you need 30 hours a week to get healthcare, and the restaurant industry deliberately never schedules enough hours for front-of-house staff. It’s only for back-of-house staff.
Also, I pay for my own healthcare, so why TF would I pay for yours?
The restaurant owners that called it a healthcare charge got sued. I know this as I worked for one, and won a settlement.
My guess is Horses does the same thing but calls it another name, and they are usually reversible. Any restaurant I go to, I ask for it to be removed because I now know it’s just lies.
But not stating it can be removed is illegal in itself. There’s a lawsuit happening there.
And the real reason they do this and not add it to the price of the food and drinks? is because their rent is based on sales. So if this would be added in, it would up their rent.
@MF – “The “restaurant fee” is a surcharge fee that restaurants use to pay for health care, ”
No, the fee is used to obscure the true price of the meal. Restaurant’s revenue is what is used to pay for health care.