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Make it illegal for restaurants to automatically add gratuity to the bill

Submitted by Keith Evans on Tuesday 31st January 2023

Published on Tuesday 21st February 2023

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 21st August 2023

Signatures: 5,202

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Make it illegal for restaurants to automatically add gratuity to the bill

Petition Details

Many restaurants now value their own service by automatically adding a service charge onto the bill. We believe this is essentially a hidden charge that relies on socially anxious people wanting to avoid confrontation in order to make customers pay more.

Additional Information

We believe automatically adding a service charge to the bill is an unfair extra charge on the customers. The value of service should be at the discretion of the customer, not the staff. This extra charge is being paid by unwilling customers because they don't want to ask staff to have the fee removed. We think too many companies are being unduly greedy and taking advantage of their customers.


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