Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco goes off after restaurant charges him COVID fee to ‘wipe down the menus’
nypost.comSebastian Maniscalco slammed two fees he encountered while eating at a restaurant last week.The stand-up comedian took to social media saying a restaurant he dined at should get rid of the “COVID fee” he said it charged him.
The fee was $3, according to Maniscalco. “I went to a restaurant last night, and I got the bill and they charged me a COVID fee,” he said. “I asked the guy.
I go, ‘What’s the COVID fee?’ He goes, ‘Yeah, well, we gotta wipe down the menus.’ Wipe down the menus? You’re charging $3 to wipe down your own menus?
Before COVID, what, you just brought out the menu with spaghetti sauce on it?”Maniscalco did not identify the restaurant by name or say where it was located.Some dining establishments around the country started implementing dedicated COVID-related fees during the pandemic to help recoup additional expenses they incurred because of the virus.
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