New CA bill could allow restaurants to keep service fees if they are disclosed 

Funny that "making ends meet" relies on fleecing the customer rather than providing good service and good food. That has historically worked. I'm boycotting.

Well, the idea that we would really get this implemented was fun, but now it's dead in the water and back to the sneaky fees and reading every word on the menu in fine print to see if your bill we be double the price listed for the food.

I stop eating out at restaurants!

This is awesome I get to stay home with my family and cook this is a lot better for us thank you

Not worry about it I don't need out anymore I stay home and cook my family thanks to the high prices of food inflation and restaurants

Lol, also California - “But why are the prices so high?”

Nobody tip any more.

I eat out less and less by paying 15-20% tips + more junk fees. I enjoy cooking at home nowadays

non reporters you are supposed to investigate not be stenographers. these fees are a total scam just like cable junk fees. the cost is so low but add on the fees and it is expensive. who are these people kidding. ask them how much they pay in bribes to these 2 senators. they can just raise their prices and pay their employees. they do not need these junk fees like cable. make them show the full price included for a living wage. no tips to again scam people into thinking the price of the meal is cheaper.

It's fees like this that are the reason why I stopped going to some restaurants. I bought a few cookbooks and am now happy that I've learned to cook more things.

Bought and paid for politicians again. Now I'm only going to pay cash.

wtf is service fee? they should just raise the prices on the menu items and let customers decide if they want to dine there or not.

That's what tips are for, if you provide good food and service how you distribute tips amongst yourselves in the restaurant is none of our business. It's bullshit when restaurants transfer that responsibility onto the consumer by adding a junk fee SF Mandate when it's the owners responsibility to provide a living wage for their employees. What's next? They're going to transfer more and more fees onto the customer because they believe they can get away with it. Sooner or later when you eat out 50% of these bullshit fees will be tacked onto your meal. Are we eating food or eating fees?

Read the menu before you order folks. That would never fly where I live.

Therefore without the inflation. Etc.

This is stupid and Nawsom has dropped the ball once again. Service fees should be banned and price caps initiated. It's the only way. We need businesses to pay more of the share and stop passing costs to customers. This is ridiculous. Service fees and tipping are theft.

I cook for myself.