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| - Had brunch there last weekend and I was reeeeeeally disappointed. We were a party of 6, celebrating my girlfriend's birthday and one of our friends brought cake... A tiny cake from Première Moisson. After all of us had eaten, we decided to serve the cake and, as soon as we opened the box, one of the waiters came by and said he would have to charge a "cake fee". Well, that sucks, but whatever... What is it, like 10 bucks or something? And then the guy said they'd charge us 45 (FORTY-F*ING-FIVE) dollars to eat the cake there. AKA twice as much as the cake had cost in the first place.
Personally, I am totally against charging this type of bullshit fee as, in my opinion, pleasing the customer is the primary mission of any business. Anyway... I understand the restaurant's point of view, that they will have to wash a few extra dishes and bla-bla-bla, so charging a symbolic fee still seems acceptable. 45 bucks is just not acceptable. After the very embarrassing situation, we decided not to pay the fee and went back to Première Moisson to eat our cake.
And what really pissed us off is that they could have said that they had this policy from the beginning, so we could decide whether we'd have brunch there or somewhere else, but they didn't.
They didn't get our 45 bucks and lost 6 customers just like that.
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