Your Happiness Fee Is Making Me Unhappy

Wellness fee. Hospitality fee. Employee benefit fee. Whatever adorable name you’ve invented for the extra 3% to 5%, please stop.

If dinner needs to cost more, charge me more. I can take it. What I don’t need is aNOT A GRATUITY surcharge that leaves me wondering who gets it, what I’m supposed to tip, and why I’m doing compensation analysis after dessert.

I tip generously. Just tell me what dinner costs, pay your people, and let me tip.

And keep the Sunshine on My Ass Fee off my bill.