Dozens of employees of hotels and restaurants demonstrated on Wednesday, 1 August 2017, in front of the ProConsumidor, the consumer defense body of the government. They protested the move by ProConsumidor to eliminate the obligatory 10% charge on food and beverage consumptions. The Superior Administrative Court recently ordered that the 10% not be levied on takeout orders, but kept the surcharge for deliveries.
Carrying signs and escorted by members of the National Police, cooks, delivery men, bartenders and cooks demanded for the reversal of these policies. Alexis Matos, the spokesman for the group, said that the income from the obligatory tip is a vital supplement to the low salaries they receive and under no circumstance are they willing to have the 10% removed from their wages.
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Diario Libre
3 August 2017
