Waffle House in Atlanta adds 20% 'property management surcharge'

[Newsjock]

http://eater.com/archives/2013/02/15/atlanta-waffle-house-charges-extra-20-for-security.php

An Atlanta Waffle House outpost is charging its customers an extra 20 percent — on everything — to help pay for a security guard. The restaurant tells Fox Atlanta that it instituted the surcharge as a result of crime in its Five Points neighborhood. Even though there's a police precinct down the street, Waffle House hired the off-duty police officer to work from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily after the nearby clubs started bringing in a lot of drunken, fighting people.

Waffle House officially calls the fee a "property management surcharge" and signs are posted throughout the restaurant to warn customers. Reaction is pretty mixed, but one waitress points out that this surcharge has resulted in lower tips.

[dlwickham]

1. I would definitely avoid that restaurant

if they needed to hire a security guard

[dembotoz]

2. 20 percent of the take sounds like an expensive security guard

[Tanuki]

3. Since they can write off the cost of the security guard,

the taxpayers are already covering the cost.

[dipsydoodle]

6. If the cost of the guard is less than or equal to the reduced gross profit on turnover

in the absense of the guard then that isn't true.

[frylock]

4. yeh good luck with that

[MrSlayer]

5. 4 pm to 7 am?

That's a 15 hour shift for an off duty cop that also works 8 hours on his real job? He never sleeps?

I just wouldn't go there anymore. I wouldn't have gone there in the first place actually.