Centre to do away with Service Charge on Food Bills

The administration arrangements to issue a consultative to states requesting that they break down against out of line inconvenience of service charge on food and drink bills, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today.

“Benefit charge does not exist. It is in effect wrongly charged. We have arranged counseling on this issue. We have sent it to the PMO for endorsement,” Paswan told columnists here.

A senior service official said the counseling, once endorsed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), will be issued to all states and union regions.

The counseling will likewise be valuable for Voluntary Consumer Organizations (VCOs) battling for shopper right, he said.

“No client ought to be compelled to pay benefit charge. On the off chance that clients need they can pay a tip to servers or give their agree to demand the charge in the bill,” the authority said while clarifying the way of proposed counseling.