Letters to the editor - June 16

June 16 2017 - 4:05pm
Letters to the Editor – June 16
Letters to the Editor – June 16

Surcharges bite

To celebrate my 60th birthday on December 27 last year it was organised for family and friends to go to a local eatery. There was a 15 per cent surcharge added to the bills, as it was a public holiday. On the day before, a public holiday, a local coffee shop added 10 per cent. Another holiday. Further down the track another business another 10 per cent. On the long weekend just gone a hotel bistro also 10 per cent. When did this become the norm. It’s beyond wrong, it’s greedy, it’s sneaky, it’s a bloody nerve. If a business wishes to open that’s their choice, in using that choice, it is not for them to slug the customer to cover their costs. Do the meals, coffees, have something extra in them? No, they do not, the customer does not get anything more. Do not use the excuse, ‘but we opened for the customers’. You opened for you and what you could get from the public. Just don’t open if you feel the need to increase surcharges. It’s not appreciated, biting the hands that feed you.

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