New Trend At Restaurants: Charging People Extra For Clean Up

There's a new trend at restaurants that you may want to know about.  Some restaurants are tacking on extra fees for clean up.  But, before you freak out a sec, it actually makes sense to me.  Hear me out.

Restaurants in San Francisco are charging anyone who "gets sick" from drinking a flat fee of $50 for clean up.  Apparently there's a post-pandemic issue with (mostly) young people not being able to hold their liquor.  They're getting blasted at "bottomless mimosa" brunches and "Tequila shot Tuesday" promotions. Happy hour two-for-one turns into 6 for three.  The next thing you know you're blowing chunks, doing the technicolor yawn, or tossing your cookies.

Let's face it, 20-somethings haven't learned how to manage their booze consumption.  They're learning that "bottomless mimosa" can sometimes mean looking at the bottom of a toilet bowl.  The restaurants are, pun intended, sick of it.  Furthermore, restaurants are having retention issues with employees because of the strong economy.  The last thing they need is a bunch of yak in a bathroom stall being the last straw for an over-worked waiter or waitress.

So, to protect their workers and try to dissuade the general public from puking on their property, they're charging anyone who worship's the porcelain god a flat fee of $50.  Fifty bucks extra fees for clean up!

I gotta tell ya, I'm ok with this.  If they were just tacking on a clean-up fee for every customer I'd be way up in arms of it.  No way I'm barfing from my booze, so I'm not paying for a Gen-Z'er who can't hold their liquor and goes toes up in the toilet.  Don't pass that bucket to me.

I've been in the service and hospitality industry and drawing that short straw of bathroom clean-up was the absolute worst when someone spewed their brunch all over the walls.  I say, don't just charge them the fifty bucks; hand them a bucket and mop and tell them to get to work. I hope the place passes on the fifty large extra fees for clean up to the employee, but I kinda doubt it.