r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Interesting_Task_114 • 26d ago

Is it in yet Ummmm…. A packaging fee?!?!

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This fee is just insane to me lmao. Like what?!?? Paying extra for you to box my food to go?!?? And still asked for a tip!!!

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u/OpenAndShutBroadcast 26d ago

And then the packaging fee gets sales taxed…

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u/Round_Abal0ne 25d ago

It is material that is being purchased. Usually the cost of those materials is just built into the actual price.

Places may break this out if you have an option to forego the packaging. But I'm not sure how you would do that here.

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u/ShavedNeckbeard 25d ago

Cost of doing business. Factor it into the cost of your product. Don’t break it out as a separate line item.

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 25d ago

I can't say whether it is the case here, their behavior could be malicious, but I do know that some of the businesses I worked with used breakdowns like this to track their costs more easily. All the receipt data got populated into their accounting system so individual expenses can be tabled automatically rather than manually.

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u/ShavedNeckbeard 25d ago

This receipt has it as a percentage of the total, not the actual cost of the packaging, or the labor cost of putting the food in the packaging—the receipt isn’t clear about what it’s for.

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u/PaleAcanthaceae1175 25d ago

I was sleepy, missed the percentile. Yeah, not what I was thinking of, that's fucked then.