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Old May 16, 2013 | 4:03 pm
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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.)
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