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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who supported Initiative 82 is a moron who doesn't know a single person in the restaurant industry.  Such a short sighted idiotic path.  I'm so sick of people coming in and thinking they know better than the people that are actually affected.  [/quote]

And all the people in the restaurant industry who cried foul over Initiative 82 is a moron who didn't understand that people were rebelling against a lack of price transparency in the restaurant industry post-Covid and latching onto anything that they thought might keep restaurants from gouging by posting one set of prices and then quietly adding three different fees to the bill after the fact.

When the I82 conversation was happening, I kept pointing this out to people in the industry. The number one response? "Well we have to do it that way because if we just baked the costs into pricing, people would be put off by the higher prices and wouldn't eat/drink here."

So literally the goal is to trick customers into coming in and ordering by lying about prices, and then force them to pay extra later. So weird that people didn't like that.

I also remember before I82 was voted on, I had multiple servers at restaurants tell me that I should tip them the standard 20% even though the the restaurant was already charging a 15-18% service fee on my bill because, they explained, they didn't get any of that service fee. So I went to those restaurants and then while I was there, my waiter informed me I would essentially need to tip 35-40% on my bill because the owner would extract money for "service" but not share it with the servers (no way for me to verify this info, btw) but then the server will apparently starve to death if I don't throw another 20% on top of that. Oh and haha you should calculate that extra 20% for tip on the total AFTER the service fee. Unless you're cheap -- are you cheap?

The restaurant industry in DC has only itself to blame for this mess, sorry. Well also landlords who price gouge restaurants on rents because a vacant storefront offers them a tax benefit so they are insufficiently incentivized to market price commercial spaces.

But you know who isn't to blame? Customers and taxpayers who just want to know how much food and drinks will cost before they order them.[/quote]

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