{"id":3547,"date":"2022-09-19T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/new\/uja.in-it\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2022-09-19T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:33:00","slug":"hotels-restaurants-cannot-add-service-charge-automatically-or-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/regulatory-updates\/others-regulatory-updates\/hotels-restaurants-cannot-add-service-charge-automatically-or-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels\/Restaurants cannot add service charge automatically or by default"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3547\" class=\"elementor elementor-3547\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-10db133 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"10db133\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43bd971\" data-id=\"43bd971\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-524364c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"524364c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hotels\/Restaurants cannot add service charge <span style=\"color: #ee1122\"> automatically or by default <\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e88ac78 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"e88ac78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c9e7f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c9e7f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Consumer Affairs Ministry has issued a press release which stipulate that hotels or restaurants shall not add service charge automatically or by default in a food bill. No hotel or restaurant shall force a consumer to pay service charge &amp; shall clearly inform the consumer that service charges is voluntary, optional &amp; at the consumers discretion.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/new\/uja.in-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PressRelease.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Complete circular attached<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consumer Affairs Ministry has issued a press release which stipulate that hotels or restaurants shall not add service charge automatically or by default in a food bill. No hotel or restaurant shall force a consumer to pay service charge &#038; shall clearly inform the consumer that service charges is voluntary, optional &#038; at the consumers discretion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others-regulatory-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uja.in\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}