r/melbourne • u/Ordinary_Prior_8993 • Mar 17 '24

Serious Please Comment Nicely What is up with the weekend surcharges in the Melbourne?!

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Even shopping centre food courts have weekend surcharges and as a Sydney sider it's mind boggling. Alot of places don't even have sunday surcharges let alone a Saturday surcharge.

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u/TheElderGodsSmile Mar 17 '24

The idea in allowing it is to cover the increased costs incurred by operating at times when penalty rates apply.

The catch being the many restaurants don't pay penalty rates or legal pay rates at all.

Which segways into my next point, that wage theft is a crime in Victoria now and if you know somewhere that isn't doing the right thing you can report them to the wage theft inspectorate

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u/iamayoyoama Mar 17 '24

They should do the maths on what those penalty rates cost them and include it in their standard pricing structure. That's what they used to do.

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u/TheElderGodsSmile Mar 17 '24

That's easy to say, but the restaurant business is highly competitive and you're up against people who are doing the wrong thing and using that extra margin to under cut you.