00:00Last night, my family went to Rowe, Hyde Park, the restaurant, to celebrate a family dinner with eight people.
00:10The food was expensive but not impressive.
00:13What was impressive was the $10 and change charge, or extra charge, labeled fee, on the bill.
00:22When we inquired, we were told that all Hyde Park restaurants charge this as a corporate fee.
00:31I'm curious, has anyone else run into the corporate fee in a Hyde Park restaurant?
00:40Thanks for your response.
00:42So this woman—
00:44Is it a thing?
00:45Well, here's the deal.
00:46Then it turns out—and I saw this last night.
00:49So I'm getting this flood of people sending me this thing.
00:57Hey, MJ, you ought to check this out from the Nextdoor app.
01:00And then suddenly, I'm like, what?
01:02So I'm getting this story.
01:04All these people are sending me this story from the Nextdoor app about Rowe, which is like a sushi bar,
01:10Asian concept in Hyde Park, charging just a fee.
01:14And then suddenly, Channel 8 has a story last night on it.
01:19And I'm like, whoa, oh, wow.
01:21So I guess somebody sent someone to Channel 8 the story from the Nextdoor app as well.
01:28So from Channel 8—and there's a story online—a surcharge at a restaurant in Tampa was brought to light by a
01:36Nextdoor app user claiming that she was surprised to see a fee added to her receipt.
01:42The individual was dining at Rowe in Hyde Park when she noticed an additional surcharge on her receipt.
01:50When she asked restaurant staff about it, they told her other restaurants in the area were doing the same.
01:56Ate on your side, visited other restaurants in Hyde Park.
02:00But Rowe was the only place they could find the additional charge.
02:07Turns out it's a 3% fee, a surcharge on their menu.
02:13Ruh-roh.
02:13I'm sorry.
02:14Hold on.
02:15This is important.
02:16A surcharge not listed on their menu.
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