The days of going out to dinner for no particular reason at all are quickly coming to an end because it's becoming cost prohibitive to do so. When I was growing up, my dad never took our family out to dinner because he was the only one working and as he said "We don't need to go out to eat when we have food at home." My parents sacrifice so my mom could be a stay at home mom so there wasn't any dinners out.
Fast forward twenty or thirty years and some how we began this odyssey of not only having dinner out for special occasions but regularly eating out two and three times a week.
For years, restaurants held down prices while not giving their workers no raises or benefits and then the pandemic hit and the lockdowns ensued, the price of food skyrocketed and suddenly, the restaurant service workers were considered essential workers. Millennials and Zoomers was and are demanding a living wage because they can't afford to pay for their rent, car payments, insurance, etc. which meant that restaurants came up with all these hidden surcharges and fees, in order, to keep their workers working.
Going out to dinner is a privilege and not your God given right to be served for little or nothing.
These hidden fees and surcharges is not only happening in California but in Iowa, Oregon, Georgia, Minnesota, Virginia and so on...it's happening everywhere.
You have to make a decision and maybe just eat out once a month or once every three months or maybe just on special occasions.
A reader, Denise, says the following:
FreeBFinder list the restaurants that have hidden surcharges. Some are pretty high!
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Thank you, John! The Hash House in Hillcrest (across from the Rite Aid on Robinson) is closed. The On the Border in Mission Valley is also closed. We kind of enjoyed On the Border bc it was close, they had parking and the food was descent.
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