California restaurants can now add a 1% surcharge to help fight climate change

The money will go to a public fund that helps farmers who use practices that reduce carbon in the atmosphere.To participate in the Restore California Renewable Restaurant program, eateries can choose to add a 1% fee to every diner's check.It would still be optional for customers, but if all diners at a certain eatery pay it, the haul would be more than enough to make the establishment carbon neutral, Anthony Myint, an organizer of the initiative, told CNN.

Restaurants across California can get involvedTheir new initiative, the Restore California Renewable Restaurant program, launched Tuesday and is open to restaurant owners across the state.Myint said Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in Los Angeles is one of several restaurants that has already jumped on board.He said he hopes restaurants will proudly display the Restore California logo in their window or on their website, like others do now with a LEED or Fair Trade certification.

Looks like I will be eating out less. The cost is already to high just driving time eat at 5 dollars per gallon. This will hurt small businesses and their employees.

Tips are going to drop significantly

A............. Beautiful wave

Sounds like carbon tax in Canada a random inexplicable money grab

Anyone who goes to California or moves to California have got to be out of their mind, that is what socialism is like

Optional means a soon to be tax increase of 1%. California is a joke.

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'California restaurants facing a customer decline'

That state is everything weird

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

If the money goes into the CA government coffers, it will simply be used to give more free stuff to illegals

1% surcharge to fight the weather? Brilliant!

WTF!! Noooo....

The free market will solve it faster than a 1% surcharge.

I hope my state,Texas, and every state and the world would do the same; and have that option available; climate change is real as real as a mountain....

Is California empty yet? Keep moving on out people.

Fuck that, move to either Atlanta or Charlotte, we don’t charge no shit like that....

“Killing the environment is apparently fine as long as you pay for it”- jessy Ventura.

Nice excuse to hike the bill out

What a scam

Oh yeah....and being from California and knowing our politicians I’m sure that money will go to fight climate change. 😂😂😂🙄

Lmk how that goes.

Haha, figures California

Hahahahaha! The gullible Californian’s!!

It won't offset the outrage and/or laughter as a result

Not that I ever had intentions of moving there, but each policy like this further emphasizes that.

Lol enjoy this bag that California hands out

So all you have to do is collect $ and give to a fund and your business is considered carbon neutral? They can still burn the same energy & have same garbage but every thing will be okay cause you are providing money.

People don’t seem to understand that the burden of climate change is not on the individual, but governments and corporations. The biggest polluter in the world is the US military. It’s a scam

So now I can only tip 19% instead of 20%?

Climate change is real and this is just one option so does anyone have any other ideas. Because no matter what we are going to have to pay to deal with this issue

Great. Feel good to pitch in a buck. Just know it's California and the chance that more than a nickel of that buck goes to climate anything is ZERO.

So dumb.

Optional... For now!

Every penny will go to politicians

Cool. Take MORE money out of American's pockets in order to fund their own agenda. That's literally the Democrat's entire platform at this point. Also, it says it's 'optional'... for now...

Gas is over 4.00 a gallon because of bullshit climate change , now this ?Its all a total hoax , California is 1.5 trillion in debt because they spend all the money on state pensions , dead beats and illegals..The yellow vests in France have this right

Venefornia is well on its way to becoming the most miserable place in USA, and to adopt Spanish as its official language. NoHateJustTruth

More money to the government, I’m sure it will be spent efficiently and wisely.

One more reason NOT to go to California. TaxHappy

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