Customers slapped with ‘weird’ charge for restaurant employee healthcare
A US diner has revealed her shock over a bizarre charge on the bill from one of her favourite Los Angeles restaurants. She was charged 5 per cent of the total for restaurant employee healthcare - a cost she had assumed the restaurant would foot. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Restaurant charge s customers for employee Health care. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Podcaster and clothing designer Ashley Nichole noticed the healthcare charge after dinner at Osteria La Buca on January 9 - but it turns out it is not new. “We enjoy our meal, we get the check, we’re paying our check and as we’re signing the tip we notice something,” she said in a video posted to TikTok. “There is a $US4.75 charge for employee Health . A 5 per cent charge . “As we’re walking out I go up to the hostess and I’m like: ‘Hey, quick question, just curious, I saw that you charged us $5 ... for employee health. I just had to ask, what is that?’. “And she goes: ‘Oh, that’s our healthc...