LogFAQs > #945997199

The only possible benefit I can see to the city explicitly "allowing" it is that customers are more likely to be sympathetic to a "Covid surcharge" than to the restaurants increasing their prices without such a public justification. It also takes some of the competitive angle out of it, since you're more likely to get more people adopting the idea with explicit approval than doing it independently.

Basically, it's not a legal benefit, it's a psychological/social one.

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