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Eateries charging 'staff welfare' after govt cut 'service charge': BJP's Bagga
short by Garima Garg / on Saturday, 21 February, 2026
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) National Secretary Tajinder Bagga shared a bill from Lower Parel's Banana Leaf restaurant, showing that it charged 5% staff welfare charge. "Government removed the service charge...but now many have renamed it 'staff welfare'. This is unfair and misleading," he said. Mandatory levy of service charge by restaurants violates consumer law, the government had said.
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