{"id":56416,"date":"2025-06-15T19:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=56416"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:39:13","slug":"according-to-variety-more-restaurants-are-now-including-an-18-living-wage-fee-on-customer-bills-would-you-pay-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/06\/15\/according-to-variety-more-restaurants-are-now-including-an-18-living-wage-fee-on-customer-bills-would-you-pay-it\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Variety, More restaurants are now including an 18% \u201cLiving Wage\u201d fee on customer bills, would you pay it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Variety, More restaurants are now including an 18% \u201cLiving Wage\u201d fee on customer bills. This charge helps cover payroll costs and provides staff with a steady, fair wage instead of relying mostly on tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fee goes directly to staff wages, helping ensure more predictable income. It\u2019s a response to rising labor costs and growing pressure to improve working conditions in the service industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fee may appear in addition to or instead of a traditional tip. Some restaurants still allow tipping on top, but others consider the fee a full replacement. The change can be surprising, but it\u2019s usually noted clearly on receipts or menus.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to Variety, More restaurants are now including an 18% \u201cLiving Wage\u201d fee on customer bills. This charge helps cover payroll costs and provides staff with a steady, fair wage… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDZcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtODktMTEud2VicD9maXQ9NDc0JTJDNTQyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQWNjb3JkaW5nIHRvIFZhcmlldHksIE1vcmUgcmVzdGF1cmFudHMgYXJlIG5vdyBpbmNsdWRpbmcgYW4gMTglIFx1MjAxY0xpdmluZyBXYWdlXHUyMDFkIGZlZSBvbiBjdXN0b21lciBiaWxscywgd291bGQgeW91IHBheSBpdD8iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.TEJfwc-kTXSc5Pey63fv2-4cQVlq-UVAyw9FTgnmb9kMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":56417,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-89-11.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[11708,11709,11710],"class_list":["post-56416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-according-to-variety","tag-more-restaurants-are-now-including-an-18-living-wage-fee-on-customer-bills","tag-would-you-pay-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56418,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions\/56418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}