That breakfast story reminded me of a time I went downtown to take care of some business. Once I got done there was a restaurant across from where I had stopped so I decided to go have some breakfast. They wanted to charge seventy cents per egg and a buck for each slice of toast. It was like the most insane I'd ever heard of. I opted out of that adventure.

Some restaurants just seem to take advantage in my opinion. I went out with my parents to eat with my brother one evening a couple years back. We have separate checks, I paid for my brothers and mine and my parents paid for their own. I couldn't believe they charged two dollars and fifty cents for a eight ounce glass of pop, right there was five bucks. Then when we got out checks their was a gratuity asking of twenty percent per check. If we had paid it, which I didn't, we'd actually paid the majority of her hourly wage for occupying at the most fifteen minutes of her time when you add up the time to take the order, deliver the food, come ask if everything was fine and gave us the checks. I don't know when this concept started that it's the customers responsibility to pay for restaurants hired help...seems that cost would be factor into the overall food pricing. I think a lot of them prey on people with that I don't make minimum wage like other people and have to depend on tips....it actually use to be that way back in the day before they changed the law that said a waiter/waitresses tips have to equal minimum wage otherwise the employer has to make up the difference. That was back before they started requiring the reporting of tips on taxes by the employer rather than the sever....who the government must have figured wasn't reporting enough. So how do you get that changed around other than to require the employer to be responsible for paying full minimum wage if a employee doesn't make minimum wage requirements in tips...so the owner now has an invested interest in making sure the employee is turning in tips. Now there's a set low minimum employers have to pay, tips are expected to pick up the rest otherwise the employer is responsible. Oh there are other scams out there also, like a couple summers ago there was a half baked sad story from up north of here in a summer tourist destination from a restaurant owner about how hard it was to maintain help. Seems though he liked to take advantage of a loop hole in the law that said he could pay as low as a dollar and ninety cents an hour for the first ninety days of training....after the ninety days was up he'd find a way to get rid of people. The world is just full of scammers. lol.