These days, the ‘voluntary’ service charge in restaurants feels a little less optional. Most of the time, the extra 12.5% has already been added to your bill. And that’s fine because you know, the waiting staff often deserve a tip. But one woman was left outraged after finding that she’d been charged £1.50 for having parmesan cheese grated over her meal. Rosie French, a food writer, recently visited Ombra, a Venetian-style canal-side bar and restaurant in Hackney. She chose to have parmesan grated over her tagliatelle dish…but didn’t expect to be charged extra for the privilege. Sharing a photo of the offending bill, complete with the ‘Parmisan Supplement (sic)’, she wrote: ‘Wasn’t mentioned to us during the awkward, painfully slow, grating at the table.
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