Frustration over hidden fees in California ends July 1
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Come Monday, changes will be coming to California as a variety of new laws are set to go into effect, including one aimed at banning hidden fees.
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We really need that law to apply to phone and utility bills.
Yes and also to Cell phones bills.
Yup and how about the Billions spent by Greasy Newsom on the Homeless unaccounted for?
No stealth tipping either at resturants.
Our small town (1400) has its own electricity generating plant and yet we still pay sales tax on the cost of electricity the town provided. I'm surprised they haven't figured out how to charge sales tax on the sales tax.
also on cars
An exemption for restaurants? Isn't that the main problem?
exactly
Gavin Newsom owns a restaurant...
If people want to dine out they need to understand that the owners have to pay for gas, electricity, employees, & property taxes or their property lease. If people want to be “cheap” it’s better off eating at home. That woman who’s being interviewed needs to stop say “we”, why is she speaking for everyone.
@@tbone3972she’s speaking for the majority, and not for everyone. Dinning out used to be affordable for the middle class and the poor, until the minimum wage hike ,and the most recent $20/hr for fast food workers. Grocery stores prices are insane unless people stock up on sale item.
Duh!
Great now let’s fix the DMV scam and the utility company monopolies.
Dude, I paid dang near $600 to register a 35 year old truck last month… phuqin crazy
The entire Govt is a grift. What r they gonna shut themselves down?
That’s your state guys you voted for it
No, we didnt
Can we fix the smog check, please!
I like when you swipe your credit card at a restaurant, the screen offers you a "tip option" with "20%" in big, bold lettering, while the "no tip" option is barely visible off to the side and requires a magnifying glass to see. Everything's such a scam now. Unfortunate.
i use a calculator (phone app) to pay a 15% tip for dine in and pay NOTHING for take our orders
some payment screens have moved the higher % to the left, so the old reflex to tip the lower percent (like 15%) will end up in tapping the highest percent...notice how there is no "verify your tip" prompt!!!!!
@@MoveoverAndbark They also try to publicly shame you into giving something. For example, when I go to a popular Chinese national credit fast food restaurant, they will have the chutzpah to ask in front of everyone if I want to "round up" or donate $1 to charity. It's really crass and I stopped going there.
Extortion and fraud is now considered American Capitalism.
@@bengolfs1I just say no. Screw what others think. What pisses me off more about that is the business uses our donations to market and promote their business by saying they donates Xdollars to Xcharity. When its really the customers and or employees.
they seriously need to ban these tip prompts at every fking store. Let the consumer be the one to offer a tip if the service or product make them want to give extra, quit begging for it, absolutely annoying. If anything atleast quit defaulting the option to 15 or 20% tip covering the entire screen and making the skip option as small as possible. If you want to prompt have a question like "want to tip" with a big "YES" or "NO" option THEN ask the percentage off the "YES" option
at prices these days who can afford giving a tip.
the other day i took my mom to kfc for lunch she got the two peace i got the three peace. cost was over $31.USD.
$10.USD more than in and out burger.
and at in and out the employees come around and make sure you are happy and get you something in needed. nothing at kfc. .
You either go out to eat a lot or you actually don't see tip machines very often and you just wanted to come here and complain.
You're free to leave no tip or customize $5.00.....
Stand up for yourself and tip what you think is right.
@@68BigSherm 0% all day long
Apply that shit to my pg&e bill
Tax Dollars sent to Greasy Newsom?
Go solar it's better to pay for the system then pg&e. It's not cheap but in the long run it will you save a ton. I only pay $16 to $24 with ac in the summer.
@@gabrielg6800 sadly I rent lol
We hate newsom
@@walterwhite1 Me too.
pizza $22
pick up (I pick it up) $2
convenience fee (I drive to pick it up) $3
pizza actually $27 please tell the truth
😂 wow
Alien_isolationist looks like you were the one who got probed this time.
No exemptions. No more hidden fees. It’s BS that they don’t bake in all costs into the price. It makes no sense whatsoever for the consumers to play the restaurant games.
Hospital’s need to do this, their the biggest scammers of all.
*they’re
(sorry 🥺)
It is absolutely insane. Last time I had to go to Emergency room it ended up being almost $5,000 and with them telling me I was probably just dehydrated. That came out of pocket due to my ever increasing deductible limit.
Absolutely...
Hospitals have to deal with insurance companies, and different insurance companies pay at different rates. So that complicates things.
Yes! I had an emergency appendectomy last year and the bill from the anesthesiologist charged me twice for the anesthesia. One charge for the medicine, second was an emergency fee. Since when is an appendectomy not an emergency. The appendix isn’t removed for prophylactic reasons 🙄
What about Gov't fees?
Are you getting Govt fees???
Yup Billions spent on the Homeless in Cali?
Exactly, Newsom is the king of taxes, fees, and crime.
@@cheezmo2k strange. hes the only california governor ive seen who sent money back to taxpayers because of a surplus in the state budget. i guess you dont like that?
If you really want to help Californians stop letting politicians steal our tax dollars.
If you really want to keep your tax dollars in a barter country society, omit them.
#TaxesAreAWeapon #TaxesAreaAbusedAndInnappropriate
Transparency except in Govt Spending
They only punish those they can get $ off of. I’m sure they will hold these people that break the law accountable, but if u run in a ransack & rob the whole place, no worries.
I would love to see that too. The government is always screwing us and it does NOT matter who is in charge either.
NO EXEMPTIONS FOR RESTAURANTS, PERIOD.
No exemptions for anyone! How was this even allowed in the first place? And businesses wonder why they fail, people don’t like being had, duh!
... maybe the restaurants bake their own bread? 🤦🏽
Adding on hidden fees does not build trust with your customers, it sounds like a scam to hit tourist but some of your customers have got to be local
As they casually introduce a new internet tax 😂
What about vacation rentals. Air B&B? Tips, fees, and taxes are insane.
This is one of the more sensible law that has come out of California. It has made a big a difference in the travel industry. There should be no exemptions for restaurants and no automatic tips included either.
Spectrum cable gon be mad! 😂
Thankfully, a couple of years ago I started cooking all my meals at home and never looked back. I've saved thousands of dollars a year and don't have worry bout hidden fees.
Well there hidden ofc you have to worry lol
Vegas needs to get right behind this. We are sick of fees! Especially the resort fees and paying for parking when you are actually staying at the Casinos. That used to be free.
Now that the room rates have skyrocketed, I don't get to do nearly as many staycations as before.
The surcharges and forced gratuity are fleecing customers and forcing them to subsidize the business to protect profits for owner. Just raise prices, then we can decide if your $50 hamburger and $300 ribeye is worth it!
Can they also ban forced tips? Why tip or even force a tip for people who don’t even want to be there and act like a tip is mandatory for doing the bare minimum of their job
Just refuse to go anywhere that has them. When you go to a restaurant if you haven't been there before ask if they have mandatory tips.
The ciggar😮store I go to has the tip options on their machines, tips for cigarettes?!?
@@TheFrogfeederthat’s just ridiculous. The Home Depot has a tip screen🤡🤡🤡
At my restaurant we do have a mandatory 20% gratuity added to the bill of large parties (more than 5 people). It is printed on the Menu, and the Menu is on display outside the restaurant. When we have these kind of parties, since we are a really small establishment, we can’t take anybody else for almost an hour, to properly serve the large party. So we can’t leave it to their good heart. Anybody else eating there doesn’t have a mandatory tip.
@bngr_bngr Here Domino's Pizza Subway and Little Ceasars all has Tip Options when you use your Debit card 😂😂like Uhhhhhh NO !
Right, Now what about Doctors and Attorneys. The most flagrant violators not even mentioned. What a joke.
Typical politicians. This won't stop the practice. The exemptions will render the law unsatisfactory.
Yaaassss
Doctors are the biggest crooks with their phantom billing Medicare and insurance.
Tipping is an American scourge
Restaurants are some of the worse to do this, don't cut them any slack.
I suppose if they are really honest, which means they will have to raise their menu prices, then they will have no patrons. Also, all the reprint and reprogramming on their systems to reflect their prices.. that will also put a dent before they can make a buck.
I’m just curious, since I don’t live in California, what are these charges, at a restaurant?
@riccardo- it depends on the area, city, type of restaurant or owners-
It ranges from a mandatory "tip" of 18 to even 28% claimed for back staff, health or environmental fees, service fees, prep fees, delivery fees evrn if picked up in some places, additional ordered by govt taxes or fees, and all kinds of made up terms and names used.
A place like San Francisco could easily double any restaurant charges even before sales taxes from all the mandatory AND voluntary added charges over the basic food prices listed.
@@seaneendelong8065 thank you.
Especially as they don’t pay their waitstaff a living wage and expect them to supplement through tips!
Just so you know, I’m not tipping for anything as of now. Once I see a fee I don’t know, bam no tip.
that's why i don't eat out much. eat at home save money
How about a breakdown of the fuel tax and post it on all pumps.
Facts, show the actual price, and add big signs that show + taxes & the amount. It was 49 cents but I think it's more now?
@@Alien_isolationistI think is now 57.5
There shouldn't be an exemption for restaurants. Prices posted should be the price of the meal not including tips and that it is. Stop giving restaurants more ways to bait and switch.
If there is an exception, it should mandate that all additional fees are in 18 point readable font (including color with decent contrast) on top of every page of the menu including the front.
And the font of any other text cannot be larger. Unless the font of the additional fees are also larger. And if they have automatic gratuity for party above a certain number, they should simply post dual prices for each menu item. One price for parties under six (or whatever), and a higher price for parties of six or larger. Or better yet raise prices by 18 or 20%, give that extra money to your server, and eliminate tipping completely. Unless someone wants to tip EXTRA for exceptional service. But that EXTRA money should just be a bonus for the server, whatever the number of people in the party. It should not be part of the money they need to make ends meet.
I’m asking too, since I am really curious about these fees. What else do restaurants charge you besides food and drinks ordered and local/state taxes? Not talking about tips. I’m not from California
@@riccardob7774 Well, in the video they displayed a notice from a restaurant saying everyone would have a 3.95% fee added because of the increased costs of food, fuel, electricity, etc. So the ‘fee’’ is financing the same things the listed price does, which is to say, all the normal expenses of running a restaurant. So it is basically a hidden price increase. This enables them to advertise things like a $9.99 special, but in actuality charge $10.38 Not a HUGE difference, but it enables them to claim that psychologically magical price of under 20 dollars, when it is not.
@@fordhouse8b got it. Thank you. Didn’t see it in the video but I see it sometimes in stores. We don’t use anything like this in our restaurant but we do explicitly talk about tips automatically added for large parties (from 5 and up).
@@riccardob7774 Yes, I think we do the same in the hotel where I work. The way I see it, any additional fee should buy the customer something additional. Otherwise it should be baked into the price. Otherwise, why not just advertise a $1 steak, but tack on a 500% additional fee?
So restaurants don't want transparency? Let that sink in to what they are adding. I have a feeling they can afford to pay servers a better amount.
Restaurants are the biggest offenders outside of car/truck rental agencies for the end price being way beyond the initial price! No one should get an exemption.
Airlines are one of the biggest offenders also.
@@moiramccleary5306 I forgot about those bastards at Moving Companies. You want your stuff $5000 drop off fee.
How about getting rid of the excessive California fuel fees that just recently doubled again ?
Let’s get rid of registration fees.
Event tickets!! That would be fine with me!! They add a huge amount in fees to concert tickets.
If the restaurants don't like it they can leave the state too................................
They already are...
Does this apply to these shady car dealerships that add a bunch of useless crap to a car’s bottom line price?
Always has? Everything is negotiable in a car dealership. All those fees are disclosed on the vehicle itself. Then any fees on contract that say “optional” are just that. Optional. They can be removed. People just need to read properly all print big and small. Also, be realistic stop going in with no license, no down payment with 500 credit score and in debt making $20 an hour. With rent or mortgage. Try and shop within your price range not above like most which is what leads to debt to income ratio being off which then turns into late payments fees etc.
I don't see a solution, they'll just spike the prices.
Pretty much lol
Good. Cohen Restaurant Group prime suspects
Jews and their Evil
lol@@jg8464
How does anyone afford to live in California? If I ever visit, I’ll have to take out a 2nd mortgage.
The actual residents who are not newbies taking exec or high paying jobs don't go out or vacation or buy toys.
Most only run a fan unless the temp gets over 95 for more than a day. Many add a quilt to beds and the couch in winter instead of using central heat.
Eating made food is limited to special events or once a month outings, usually an affordable or local place.
Best price gas is always known.
Outside activities are beaches or parks or lakes or trails etc that are free to park and visit. Or just visiting friends and fam at homes.
Groceries are often carefully planned spending of lowest cost stores and as little processed vs make from scratch as doable- with a couple nicer items every month so you don't feel too deprived.
Thrift stores really non profit for clothes and linens and shoes and toys and furniture etc are very popular out here- fortunately a ton of those moving away, with money, or who died have good quality donations given often.
Rent and those who bought after mid 20 are being crushed though...
@@seaneendelong8065 good to know there are some of us left out there.
Minimum wage is $16, so hopefully you have a better job then that, or else you're going to need a roommate or 3, or section 8 where you pay 1/3 of your income to rent, while everyone else pays for your housing. There's also side hustles. The minimum wage will likely be $18 in January state wide, though rent is $2,000 for 1 bed $3K for 2 bed, maybe even more. If you cqn buy a home it's going to ease your burden. Everything else is expensive too so a lot of people stay home a lot, but a lot of people are just broke from Starbucks, fast food, tobacco habits etc. There are well paying jobs too, it all depends on the industry.
@@seaneendelong8065there are many home owners, business owners, & contract workers, like construction etc that pay well, not everyone is living like that. People still buy video games & toys, just depends on how you work it. I was making good money in the solar industry for a couple years. When I worked low end jobs I sold video games on the side for extra cash & good credit. People also live off their tax refund fairly well for 6 months. I have noticed that money doesn't last as long under this government the last few years. Was floored when my two pizzas & 1 lb chocolate chip cookie from Round table came to $89, even though it was for pickup.....got $120 worth of toys at Target for the kids, came out with 2 racecar set, mini baby doll with bed and highchair, mini mouse cash register toy, a bouncy ball fkr 6 bucks, stickers & headphones for the stepkid, that wasn't a bad haul, and I buy my Playstation games as cheap as I can by creating a wishlist on ama zon, & picking the lowest prices first & wait for sales on other games, and eb ay if they're cheaper there. I also like getting toiletries from dollar tree to live the way I do. Just gotta know what & where to make sacrifices. My gf works at Tar get so employee discounts on meats & cheese of 15% helps.
Displayed or not, if they continue to add a "service charge" it gets deducted from the tip.
$5 is a good tip
A local pizza takeout only restaurant in my town (in WA state) adds a MANDATORY 4% surcharge that they say is for MANAGEMENT who are not allowed to take tips. WTH, pay a fair wage and quit with these stupid charges! I got hit with that fee ONCE and even though it was my favorite pizza in town, I haven't been back. And because I am ticked off at all the GIMME tip screens shoved in our face now, I just pay CASH when I get anything to eat out. As far as I'm concerned, the greed of many restaurants has boomeranged with me. I'm just not going to pay anything extra any more. I'm taking a European approach to tipping 😅
Crazy that this is basically robbery and they aren't doing anything about it until now
Yes now get rid of the tip culture
So it practically changes nothing but somebody got a bill passed
California needs to put a cap on utility bills, particularly for phone companies. I have had my internet service for 5 years with the same speed and every year, they raise the prices but not my internet speed.
California should also switch to "value added tax" or VAT so that consumers won't have to guess how much tax we have to add at the point of sale.
Rent should be between $500-$1,000 per bedroom, not $2,000 for 1 room....
If only the people were protected from the pinheads under the dome and Greasy Gavin.
How about Outlaw tipping. It's the employers responsibility to pay it's staff a living wage!!!
in CA they are paid minimum wage, after tips they are paid wayyyy more than fast food workers. I was a waitress.
This is what gets me about American capitalism compared to European. In the states what is listed as the price is not what you get. I just want the price and no taxes or fees associated with it. Then I can make a better financial decision.
Thank you CA! ❤
I don’t want to sound ungrateful but can the rent in CA please please please go lower 🥺🥺
The Governor needs more money so he can buy more votes.
Oh yeah just like the price gouging laws 😂 that were not enforced 1 single time since COVID and inflation? And the contractor’s laws? That are enforced 0% of the time?
Taxes and hidden fees related to city regulations are what drive up the costs and they are exempt. So yet another "we solved the problem by making the problem years ago and then we are pretending to solve it now."
Now get rid of Tipping!!! Or else we will continue to dine inside our homes. F Tipping
just don't tip. women love that
it has to be Federally Mandated, to everyone, or it would be chaos. Put every server/runner/bussboy/barback/bartender at a decent minimum wage, then and only then, get rid of tipping. It will change the Industry as a whole. For the better I guess.
@@riccardob7774 We don’t tip and will never tip because we can figure out how to do things on our own. I’m not paying someone else’s working wage for their compensation. That’s like agreeing to reparations for Negroids. If the cost of food or service go up as a result of not tipping to balance their wage then so be it. At least we know exactly how much we are paying for a service and can make informed decisions accordingly. The market will sort itself out and competition will reign supreme.
You think taking away the connection between the server's pay and the customer's satisfaction will improve service?
How's that working out at the DMV?
I support that I never believe in tipping thats another way of giving your hard earned money away
I had a contract with a associate in California which took me to Home Depot for lumber, there was a surcharge for Handling , ???? I did the handling and loading from the rack to my trailer, WTF????? One more reason I don't do business in California anymore
Do they ever get rid of laws… where does it end.
This needs to be nationwide.
The fees get banned then prices increase 😂😂😂😂😂
When it comes to those hidden fees for restaurants at the restaurants, want to get think about this, the consumers can vote against those restaurants and not do business and maybe they might not last with all the restaurants going downhill that is
We still need Ticketmaster to have less fees
Can we ban tipping too?
Isn't this all just an illusion? The junk fees won't go away - they'll just be visible, which is good, but we're still going to be paying the same.
Does this mean the end of resort fees in California?
WE NEED THIS LAW FOR OUR POLITICIANS.
I just want to know why Im expected to tip 20% of my bill when it used to be 15, and I can remember when it was 10. Its not like the price of the food didin't go up. Think about it.
Deliver the meal without fees or inflation or tips,
Walmart item on the shelf delivered for the same price,
Any shelf item delivered to your house for the same price!!!!
Watch out Pizza Hut
A pizza only contains $3.80 worrh of ingredients. Mostly plant based and gluten.
Since Covid and the rise of inflation, restaurants in Texas have begun to use hidden fees and you find out after it's time for the bill. The strangest one i ran across was a "procurement fee" on our bill at a local TexMex restaurant.
I didn’t even know this was a thing. Thanks for fixing a problem for ignorant people.
I work in the most popular restaurant in my town and am proud to say that this fees law won't affect us at all because we don't pull that crap.
Every tourist: sales tax is a hidden fee!
Another hidden tax. First wages go up and now removing fees… let’s see prices of food go up more 😂
Heck no lower gas prices!!!
Ajisen ramen, a restaurant I used to go to has an “additional tip “ they offer on top of the tip you already want to give in case you’re too rich. Well, now it’s a place I no longer go to.
Are they going to do this with dealerships? Me and my buddies went to go look at a car a couple weeks ago and they straight up told us it was going to be $4,000 more than their listing price online. Another buddy of mine had a similar issue with a BMW X1 he was looking at.
Does this include the mandatory tips fees added
What, exactly, is this new law and what does it do specifically? Are they referring to gratuity? There were no specific examples used in the entire “report“ was extremely vague.
If you payed attention, they must add in the fees, before you order instead of after you order.
@@Alien_isolationist I’m glad we BOTH payed attention to that part. My question is WHAT fees specifically? There were no examples genius.
“I” gave the example of gratuity because it’s all I can think of as a “hidden fee” when ordering food.
I really hate hidden taxes more than a businesses hidden fees.
Thanks Newsom your California's savior. Just stay there and continue to make it better.
Not should they be allowed to move those fees back into the bills in the guise of a price increase. This needs to be nationwide.
taxes, they should include that in products. You go to the store, buy an item for $2 but then you pay $3 oh its because of taxes, and each town, city, county has its own set of taxes... it's too much.
well, that’s not up to the establishment. Local and State taxes changes frequently, I would not be opposed to show prices inclusive of taxes, if it is a mandate and everybody has to do it. Like in Europe, what you see is what you pay.
Taxes are 9% not 50%, but they do that in Europe I think. Just factor in if you're paying $100, you're going to pay an extra $9, it's not rocket science.
@@Alien_isolationist yeah, no, of course its not rocket surgery, but it should be included in the price nevertheless, why do they hide the taxes? SUPRISE you have to pay more, and then there is the "its just 5 bucks 10 bucks more" crowd. No! tell me the final out the door price from the beginning! As if they want to negotiate a price and they don't want to tell you the price from the beginning, to see how much you're willing to pay. because there is sales tax, then local sales taxes, then state sales taxes, then fees. You buy a bottle of water, it has crv recycle whatever fees, it's just taxes and fees on top of taxes and fees. and no it's not a simple 9 or 10% taxes, its more like 12 or some places 15 or more percentages, DEPENDING ON THE CITY.
Does this apply to Ticketmaster and their surprise major fees?
We need a law preventing the government from taxing at such a high rate
If they don’t stop those “convenience” fees, soon we will get charged to eat at home 😂
How about the paint and lumber fees at Home Depot and Lowes and Ace Hardware. Plus there is a state fee when you get a parking ticket, how about doing away with those too.
Ya, im sick of administrative fee, convenience fee, this fee, that fee, etc.
This needs to happen with the medical field more than anything else
California should also apply this to their taxes!
The restaurant surcharges are no different than "resort fees" at hotels. It's a way to lure people in at a lower price than what they really will be paying. "Staff wellness fees", "kitchen appreciation fees". What would the world be like if we just paid people for their time, like every other country in the world?
Really? Cuz I just reserved a room for 2 nights stay at the Hilton Vacation Club Lake Tahoe Resort South and looking at my bill now. RESORT CHARGE: $52.00 USD🤨
Any service that expects money in exchange should legally be required to inform consumers clearly and up front.
does this include Wal-Mart because Walmart has been putting one price on items then when you get to check out the price is different.
Need to have the law apply to the state addressing their taxes and fees that are strangling Californians.
they raise the price, even utilities will go up...
Someone please tell the dispensaries to do the same. I’m sick of seeing $19.99 and paying $45 once I check out!!!
Reboot the California and Legislature.
The fact that we're not talking about how this is actually going BACK to the old pricing laws, 🤔 but then we have no collective memory...
Get rid of hidden fees at all car dealerships across the state
Next will come complaints of prices being too high. The fees will not go away. They'll be included in the price and people will lose their mind about it.