THE PRICE OF MEALS
SMALL SURCHARGE DECIDED UPON. MEETING INCREASED COSTS. In order to meet additional costs. Masterton tea-room and restaurant proprietors, at a meeting held last week, decided to make a small surcharge on all meals supplied of Id for each customer. This will apply to morning and afternoon teas, luncheons and Friday night meals and will come into effect tomorrow.
It was asserted that unless some adjustment were made, proprietors would be faced with serious losses on account of the additional costs of higher award wages and overhead expenses. Several causes were open with a view to dealing with the situation —to maintain present prices and reduce the quantity of food supplied, to maintain present prices and provide lower grade food and less efficient service, to raise prices of all meals to a rate that would ensure a reasonable return of profit and to impose a small surcharge on all meals supplied, merely to cover the additional cost of higher award wages and overhead expenses. The majority of restaurant keepers in Masterton favoured the last proposal and this course it was decided to adopt.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 4
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186THE PRICE OF MEALS Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 4
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