Restaurant diner Ashley Nichole is left stunned after spotting extra cost on her restaurant bill goes towards waiting staff’s health care.
Video transcript
– The weirdest thing just happened to me. It’s cold and it’s raining in LA, so me and my bestie decide to go out to dinner. We go to one of my favorite restaurants. This is the Osteria La Buca. It is a Italian restaurant here in LA, and I’ve been multiple times. We enjoy our meal, we get the check, we pay for our check, and as we are signing the tip and stuff, we notice something.
Here’s the receipt, and if you notice down here towards the bottom, there is a $4.75 charge for employee health. Do you see that? A 5% charge for employee health. My immediate thought was, what is employee health? What does that mean? We run through a couple of options, and I’m like, you know what, I’m just going to ask. So as we’re, like, walking out, I go up to the hostess and I’m like, hey, quick question. Just curious, I saw that you guys charged us $5 each– not total for the table, each– both of us– for employee health. And I just had to ask, like, what is that?
And she goes, oh, that’s our health care. And my reaction was, your health? Your health care? And she goes, yes, our health care. And I’ve never heard of that before, ever. And I had to find out, is that normal and have I been living under a rock and this is a normal thing, or is this weird? Because I’ve never experienced this before, and it feels weird.
