Woman left furious after being charged 'ridiculous' hidden fee at restaurant

Everyone's least favourite part of being in a restaurant is when it's time to pay the bill, as you've had a (hopefully) lovely meal and now have to do the boring and unfun duty of actually paying for the thing you got.

While they had been planning on eating it somewhere else, Gigi said the restaurant staff had offered to cut it up for her there and then, and she'd assumed they were 'just doing something nice for us'.

That didn't turn out to be the case and when she looked at her bill she realised the restaurant had charged her $25 for a 'cake cut'.

Posting the bill online and saying she 'didn't know this was a thing', plenty chipped in to discuss whether it was a common restaurant practice or not.

Someone said it was 'totally a thing' because the restaurant had to 'bring plates and forks which they then have to wash', but admitted 'it was wrong that you weren't told of a fee'.

Gigi said she'd 'been a server and we never had that' wherever she'd worked, and a second person who claimed they'd 'worked in 3 different restaurants' also found it surprising that a place would charge diners for cutting a cake.

Another said it 'seems crazy' that the cost of cutting the cake was almost as much as the restaurant was charging for a meal, though several people claimed the cost was so high because it was for bringing in outside food and denying the restaurant a sale.

Regardless of whether people thought the cake cutting fee was a legitimate thing or not, most could generally agree that someone ought to have told Gigi about the extra costs first.