Anonymous
Post 06/01/2023 08:50     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The problem is everyone is doing this. Are we never going back to every restaurant?


I have nearly stopped going to restaurants. I’m finding the price isn’t worth the meal I’m getting.


+1

I would say I have reduced my restaurant consumption by 90%. I might go only once every other month. The price increases and portion sizes are so much larger, and smaller that I don’t see value in it. One restaurant meal would be enough for two meals for me. Now it really is just one serving at about $15-$20 a pop x 5 (my family), not worth it for me. And then you add a surcharge on top of that? I’m staying far away.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2023 03:29     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:The problem is everyone is doing this. Are we never going back to every restaurant?


I have nearly stopped going to restaurants. I’m finding the price isn’t worth the meal I’m getting.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2023 18:51     Subject: Re:If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:I went to a restaurant that had this (they said something about supply chains etc) but the restaurant had opened in January 2023! Don't tell me you couldn't have just made the prices higher- it was printed on the menu so they could have printed the menu with higher prices. I tipped 20% minus the fee (I think the fee was 2% so I guess I tipped 18%) and put a note next to tip that I assumed any fee went to service staff so was making my tip whole at 20%.

Savage.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2023 10:32     Subject: Re:If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
I went to a restaurant that had this (they said something about supply chains etc) but the restaurant had opened in January 2023! Don't tell me you couldn't have just made the prices higher- it was printed on the menu so they could have printed the menu with higher prices. I tipped 20% minus the fee (I think the fee was 2% so I guess I tipped 18%) and put a note next to tip that I assumed any fee went to service staff so was making my tip whole at 20%.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2023 10:30     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:Founding farmers still had this


They will remove it if you ask. Or at least they did in November 2021, which is the last time I went because it was such a hassle getting the manager over to remove it.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2023 08:11     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:I complained about this a couple of months ago. Clyde’s charged a restaurant recovery fee, on top of their higher prices and reduced portions. I still tipped, but I won’t be going back.

15% is very high, and I would not be surprised if people are not paying a tip on top of this.


Went to Clydes over the weekend. I thought it was me thinking portions had shrunk. I saw the recovery fee on the menu before ordering and I didn’t like it. But I also didn’t stand up and leave the restaurant. I won’t be going back either but I think if I had left after drinks and cited an objection to the recovery fee that would have sent a direct message. They won’t know if I don’t return and they don’t care.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2023 07:11     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I complained about this a couple of months ago. Clyde’s charged a restaurant recovery fee, on top of their higher prices and reduced portions. I still tipped, but I won’t be going back.

15% is very high, and I would not be surprised if people are not paying a tip on top of this.


I went yesterday and I didn’t see the recovery charge.
There was 3.75% surcharge.


Same thing.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2023 19:44     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:I complained about this a couple of months ago. Clyde’s charged a restaurant recovery fee, on top of their higher prices and reduced portions. I still tipped, but I won’t be going back.

15% is very high, and I would not be surprised if people are not paying a tip on top of this.


I went yesterday and I didn’t see the recovery charge.
There was 3.75% surcharge.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 22:06     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:Please name the restaurants doing this do we can avoid them. I haven’t been to any that charge this fee..

Since you doubt this exists, here’s a list that someone created: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1UrAuD1TcfX546IEJL34I37ACVWljSi4lhIRA0w15-_Y/htmlview#gid=1486084773

From this article: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/what-to-do-about-unexpected-restaurant-fees-dc-attorney-general-warning/65-b8ac01af-2a8f-4ea1-9f2e-479994321378
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 22:04     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:Please name the restaurants doing this do we can avoid them. I haven’t been to any that charge this fee..

Clyde’s still has this fee.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 21:29     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Please name the restaurants doing this do we can avoid them. I haven’t been to any that charge this fee..
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 21:16     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Put them on blast on review sites. Get receipt photos into Google Maps.

Never go back.
Fight it in store if you have the "stomach" for it.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 21:10     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:Founding farmers still had this


Maybe it is a bad restaurant thing. I've been to many restaurants, both regular and Michelin star, none of them charged a fee even in late 2021.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 21:02     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:The problem is everyone is doing this. Are we never going back to every restaurant?


I ate out 3 times in the past week. None of the restaurants charged a recovery fee.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2023 19:24     Subject: If the restaurant is charging a 15% recovery fee, are you still tipping?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't take it out on the server. Ask to speak the manager and complain. Then, don't eat there again.

But please still tip your server.


When I sit down, I expect to pay menu price plus tax, plus 20%. That's what I'm paying. If the restaurant has surprise fees, then it's coming out of the tip.

What if the fee is advertised on the menu when you sit down?


I tell them I’ve decided to eat elsewhere, why, and leave.