New charge on dinner tab is in bad taste
• Chicago Tribune[brilliant] Nothing succeeds in the travel industry like a bad idea. The latest hidden mandatory add-on is a "health" charge added to restaurant bills. As far as I know, this scam cropped up first in San Francisco, but you can count on it to spread.




Can you imagine going into a modestly priced restaurant and getting a bill for a big meal for $1.67, plus a fee for this, a tax for that, a prorate for something else eventually totaling up to the cost leveled upon the business for all of the taxes, laws and regulations heaped upon th business by your governments? Oh, yes. And the revolution would soon follow. Remember when the phone company started to show all of the fees and taxes imposed---CONgress put a stop to it pronto.