Originally Posted by
Swissaire
Correct me if I am wrong, but my reading was that the restaurant owners were including a fee or tax onto each bill for employees, that they were caught keeping as profit. I thought the District Attorney found a few guilty of that.
Was that not the case ?
That is the case, although I hadn't been aware of it:
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog...on-surcharges/
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog...-to-offenders/
Interesting that they're able to crack down on it; I'd always figured it was as much as scam as YQ (fuel surcharge on airline tickets.)