{"id":2015,"date":"2007-01-16T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/service_inclus_pour_votre_convenience.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:29:57","slug":"service_compris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/service_compris.html","title":{"rendered":"Service Inclus Pour Votre Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01162007\/news\/regionalnews\/i_was_served_a_french_di_in_n_y__cafe_regionalnews_jennifer_fermino.htm\">Imagine if they tried this at Denny&#8217;s<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A French-born Manhattan resident claims a trendy SoHo restaurant tacked a gratuity on his bill without telling him &#8212; then said it was to &#8220;protect&#8221; the waiters because foreigners don&#8217;t tip.<\/p>\n<p>Ludovic Audesson, who was dining with three European visitors, almost choked on his Sancerre when he got the check at posh Aquagrill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time this has ever happened to me,&#8221; said Audesson, 32. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s very disrespectful. It is insulting to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more than insulting &#8212; it&#8217;s also illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The city Department of Consumer Affairs prohibits restaurants from adding tips onto whatever tables they feel like.<\/p>\n<p>Its rules state that a restaurant can impose a 15 percent gratuity on parties of eight or more as long as it conspicuously prints the policy on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Audesson&#8217;s party of four had dinner at the Spring Street eatery last month.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone ordered their meals in accented English, then sat back and gabbed in their native tongue.<\/p>\n<p>They enjoyed a leisurely, two-hour meal, complete with a bottle of white wine, some raw-bar shellfish, four fish entrees and three side orders.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was $247.32 &#8212; including an 18 percent tip.<\/p>\n<p>Audesson, a hair colorist at Pierre Michel, said when they asked the manager why the gratuitous gratuity was tacked on, he was told, &#8220;We do that because you&#8217;re foreign, and foreigners don&#8217;t tip.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if they tried this at Denny&#8217;s: A French-born Manhattan resident claims a trendy SoHo restaurant tacked a gratuity on his bill without telling him &#8212; then said it was to &#8220;protect&#8221; the waiters because foreigners don&#8217;t tip. Ludovic Audesson, who was dining with three European visitors, almost choked on his Sancerre when he got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}