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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t

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Biden wants to free you from all those subscriptions you meant to cancel but didn’t

www.vox.com

jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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It’s the latest way Biden is trying to combat higher prices.
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    I remember my first meal on my first visit to the US 10 years ago. It was Subway I think. I see a price advertised, but to my shock I paid almost double that. Fee for dining in, sales tax, too.

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      You didn’t pay a fee for dining in. Fuck off.

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        I know I have been to restaurants that have added a dine in fee to the receipt.

        Who knows to whether or not that was legal, but it happens.

        You fuck off.

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          Name one.

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            Why the hostility? It took three seconds of searching to find an article with dine in fees.

            https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/30/mystery-charge-on-your-food-bill-san-francisco-restaurant-surcharges-explained/

            ‘Dine-in Fee’

            At Che Fico on Divisadero Street, customers pay a 10% “dine-in fee” and are encouraged to tip too.

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              10% and even a tip (though why one would tip a counter worker at Subway, I don’t know) does not come close to ‘almost double’ that the poster claimed, however.

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              Why the desire to answer the question for other people?

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                “Why are you standing up for this guy I’m trying to bully?”

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                  I’d like to know one they’ve been to.

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            Y’all really are all about the cyber-bullying here 😂

            edit: post before me had the same link and quote

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        Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn’t Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

        Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That’s 100%.

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          Regardless, there has never been a tax for dining. State taxes are in single digits and varies across states. Maybe you added a very generous tip which doubled your bill and you are calling that as dining tax.

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          There is a difference in tax sometimes between to go (takeaway) and dining in.

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          Less toxic when you aren’t talking out your ass, yes.

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            Please, try to be more respectful.

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              Rephrase it for me.

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      Beep boop?

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        Boop beep.

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          ☐ Be you robots?

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      Oh, that’s evil. A fee for dining in is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard of. I would be livid.

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        I would pay for take out and then simply eat inside.

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