Now restaurants charge you for the privilege of paying your bill! Diners slam ... trends now
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Diners at a Shoreditch restaurant have been left with a bitter aftertaste after seemingly being charged for the 'privilege of paying their bill'.
One customer shared a picture of a digital receipt from their visit to Italian restaurant Gloria on Sunday, March 28, where they were hit with the unusual extra charge.
Upon receiving their bill, the customer was subject to not only a 13.5% service charge, totalling £26.15, but also a 'checkout fee' of £2.99.
This brought the total paid for the meal from £193.50 to a whopping £222.64.
Taking to social media the diner shared an image of their bill and asked users if being charged for paying their bill was standard.
The 'checkout fee' is a charge added to every bill for using the mobile phone app called 'Sunday' - dreamed up by the people behind Gloria - to pay a restaurant bill.
Other diners said they were only able to avoid the charge if they went out of their way to ask to pay via contactless card on a card machine.
The Italian restaurant located at Great Eastern Street is part of the Big Mamma restaurants group.
The Gloria in Shoreditch (pictured) where one customer was charged a 'checkout fee' for paying their bill
The total bill came to a whopping £222.64 with the service charge and 'checkout fee'
