Originally Posted by
Enigma368
I find it amusing when some restaurants in LA list on their menu : "we charge a 3% surcharge on the check to allow us to pay for our employee's Health Insurance". Why not say " and we charge another 10% on top to pay for power, 5% to pay for trash, 20% to pay for cleaning". Passing on individual business costs directly to the customer seems silly but I guess they want to show that they treat their staff well.
I don't know how old you are but back around 2001 ish hotels started charging energy surcharges to pay for higher electric costs [I don't remember why this happened though] but talk about an uproar. Eventually IIRC, there were some challenges to this process and it went away. Others may remember more about it than I do.