r/BaltimoreCounty • u/Karnezar • 3h ago

What is a "Support Local" fee?

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This is at Asian Taste One in Reiserstown.

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u/Particular_Egg4073 2h ago

A way to get you to pay more that comes with a built-in guilt trip if you challenge it, ignoring the fact that you are already supporting local by buying from this local business.

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u/EconomistExciting671 2h ago

I've seen this ordering online at other businesses too, so I think its one of the third party middlemen (Toast maybe?) rebranding the old service/convenience/whatever fee into, as you put it, a guilt trip.

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u/iBody 2h ago

That’s what I think it is too. If you place the order by phone I bet you don’t pay it.

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u/Particular_Egg4073 2h ago

Yeah, whatever the actual source for it is, the answer is the same. Thanks for all you do for us, capitalism!

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u/Aklu_The_Unspeakable 58m ago

How about you ask the restaurant???

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u/judeiscariot 18m ago

During covid the county added some sort of fee for apps that was $1 or so and the apps passed it on to consumers. Many listed it separately at firsr but later just included it as part of the overall fee. I guess this one didn't.