03-02-2023, 03:44 PM
Meredith Clark
Thu, 2 February 2023 at 3:11 pm SGT
A customer was charged an unexpected US$25 fee after they asked a restaurant server to cut a birthday cake they had bought themselves.
TikTok user Gigi, who goes by @vivala_blondiiie on the app, went viral earlier this week when she posted a video of the receipt from the restaurant, which cost a subtotal of $113.
She then zoomed in on the US$25 charge, which read: “1 Cake Cut”
“When the server asks if we want the cake WE brought cut, thinking she’s doing something nice for us…but it was 25 dollars,” Gigi wrote over the video. She captioned the clip: “I didn’t know this was a thing?!?”
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A “cakeage fee” is known as the extra cost a restaurant charges to serve customers a dessert that they had previously bought for the occasion. According to The New York Times, a cakeage fee “covers the cost of the server’s time and washing the dishes”. The fee also helps to “offset the loss of revenue from in-house desserts and makes up for the extra time a party will be at the table but not ordering food”.
Thu, 2 February 2023 at 3:11 pm SGT
A customer was charged an unexpected US$25 fee after they asked a restaurant server to cut a birthday cake they had bought themselves.
TikTok user Gigi, who goes by @vivala_blondiiie on the app, went viral earlier this week when she posted a video of the receipt from the restaurant, which cost a subtotal of $113.
She then zoomed in on the US$25 charge, which read: “1 Cake Cut”
“When the server asks if we want the cake WE brought cut, thinking she’s doing something nice for us…but it was 25 dollars,” Gigi wrote over the video. She captioned the clip: “I didn’t know this was a thing?!?”
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A “cakeage fee” is known as the extra cost a restaurant charges to serve customers a dessert that they had previously bought for the occasion. According to The New York Times, a cakeage fee “covers the cost of the server’s time and washing the dishes”. The fee also helps to “offset the loss of revenue from in-house desserts and makes up for the extra time a party will be at the table but not ordering food”.