For one, service charges are considered payable to the restaurant, not directly to the server.
Autograts and service charges are, for tax purposes, now to be classed as wages.
These service charges are partly the offspring of the high-tech, always-on, connected world in which we live.
The plan provoked a rash of complaints asserting Ticketmaster was monopolistic and gouging consumers with high service charges.
Bounced-check fees rose 2% last year, ATM fees rose 12.6% and monthly service charges rose 5%, according to Bankrate.com.
Pawn service charges, points out Moroney, rose 55%, while jewelry-scrapping revenue climbed 89%.
The increase was mainly driven by higher service charges and other customer-related fees as well as rise in interchange fees.
Like competing no-frills cards, Discover it strips away many routine service charges and guarantees live access to American-based customer support agents.
Then in 2011, all three of the above bank holding companies saw modest year-over-year increases in service charges on deposit accounts.
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Cutting out your use of credit cards means time-consuming trips to the ATM and extra service charges from increased debit card use.
Increased service charges affected 18% of respondents, and 2% had lost their support entirely because their local authority had changed its eligibility criteria.
Voters moan about branch closures and possible increases in service charges.
The newspaper reports the city's decision came after a hearing officer concluded he was guilty of all civil service charges brought against him by the city.
Each device may be tied to a rate plan, but also each device can rack up serious service charges, depending on how and where it is used.
Instead of charging venues for the tickets he'd sell, he jacked up the service charges and split the take with the venues, giving them a new revenue stream.
It is also a reality that BAC needs to cut expenses to match revenues, as mandated lower service charges on checking accounts and low interest rates have cut into profitability.
Instead Greece used the comfort cushion of an 8% reduction in debt service charges to borrow so that profligate state benefit programmes could be expanded in a quest to by votes.
If customers like Pastor Bell routinely ignore service charges (which, so far as the IRS is concerned is mandatory and not discretionary), lower revenues could translate to lower wages for servers.
Most banks offer it for customers who agree to have their payroll checks automatically deposited, although again, some big banks are starting to reinstate monthly service charges if minimum balances aren't maintained.
Non interest income (aka, fees) fell 11% from a year ago, driven by lower servicing income (down 64%), lower deposit account service charges (down 7%), and lower proceeds from loan and asset sales.
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Forcibly pushing out new Windows updates to a desktop or even Wi-Fi-only laptop PC might be ok, but it could cause an iPad connected via 3G to become unusably slow or, worse, result in unexpectedly-large service charges.
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Even more immediately, if the restaurant shares service charges among all employees, a common practice strengthened by this ruling, all of the servers would be cut out of a piece of the pie because of this sort of behavior.
An interim solution involves setting up high-volume spay-and-neuter clinics that can do dozens of operations a day for a fraction of what a full-service vet charges.
Yet few things are as risky as, say, a teenager (the most technologically savvy yet financially irresponsible member of the household) let loose on a service that charges by the minute.
Again, it would be better to have flat monthly charges based on peak speeds of always-on service plus packet charges for traffic actually carried.
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Although Mr Williamson worked for Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service, the charges will be brought against the new Scottish Fire and Rescue Service which formed on 1 April.
The service identifies unauthorized charges on debit and credit cards by mining a database of millions of consumer complaints.
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They dictate who may offer what sort of service, the charges allowed for professionals and how they may advertise.
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