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Speaker 1: That's the weekend. Save your tears. I do have tickets

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Speaker 1: to see Sam Smith in a few minutes, stand by

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Speaker 1: for those. So a lot of people are talking about

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Speaker 1: this and it is these well, the list, the growing

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Speaker 1: list of unexpected service charges. Right when it comes to

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Speaker 1: especially restaurants, sistey, what do you have.

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Speaker 2: It's like the undisclosed gratuities, the convenience fees that they

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Speaker 2: they call them health insurance fees. They've slowly kind of

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Speaker 2: been making their way onto our bills when you go

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Speaker 2: to restaurants. I don't know if you've noticed them when

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Speaker 2: you go to pay the bill, and most of the

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Speaker 2: time fish to gratuities.

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Speaker 1: Right, they're saying health insurance charge, and it's not much.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it'll just be like two dollars here, three dollars there,

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Speaker 2: and so of course we just, you know, we pay it,

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Speaker 2: because what are you gonna do? Right, You can sit

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Speaker 2: there and argue it at the end of your meal,

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Speaker 2: but it all starts adding up if you go out

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Speaker 2: to restaurants a lot or whatever. And so customers are

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Speaker 2: now starting to fight back and many of us are

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Speaker 2: just kind of one explanations. So there is a Google

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Speaker 2: spreadsheet that anyone can access. And it's a Reddit group

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Speaker 2: that has taken it upon themselves to create the spreadsheet,

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Speaker 2: and they update it regularly and they basically tell you

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Speaker 2: they track which restaurants are charging the additional fees that

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Speaker 2: it's supposedly for, and whether or not tipping is also

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Speaker 2: still expected at that restaurant, et cetera. And we don't

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Speaker 2: need to sit here and call anybody out. But there

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Speaker 2: are more than one hundred restaurants currently on this Google spreadsheet,

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Speaker 2: and it's growing, like it continues to be updated daily,

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Speaker 2: and it's everywhere all over southern California, from downtown LA

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Speaker 2: to the west side the Valley. I mean, it's got

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Speaker 2: so many restaurants on their hotting.

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Speaker 1: So there's one that says Health and Happiness surcharge to

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Speaker 1: cover employees' health insurance, and then employee comment on the

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Speaker 1: spreadsheet says, we didn't get health insurance exactly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess like if you've seen those charges, you could

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Speaker 1: just ask right like, yeah, can you tell me exactly

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Speaker 1: or us the serve like is this really? Is this

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Speaker 1: what you're getting? Or you know what happens here and

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Speaker 1: you get the real story.

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Speaker 2: Exactly because a lot of these restaurants could be sneaky

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Speaker 2: about it and they're not actually getting their employees that

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Speaker 2: they're not going to.

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Speaker 1: Take it off.

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Speaker 2: Like let's say you question them, they're not going to say, okay,

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Speaker 2: well we'll just take that off. You might you think well,

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Speaker 2: to keep you that.

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Speaker 1: I'd still like to know if it says health insurance,

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Speaker 1: that that employees getting the health insurance. You'd like to

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Speaker 1: know that, right, yeah, if you're paying.

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Speaker 2: It all right?

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, take us to go see Sam Smith

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Speaker 1: here at Kiss