MEAL CHARGES RAISED
CITY RESTAURANTS COSTS PASSED ON (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. City workers and business people who take their meals in Wellington tearooms and restaurants will be obliged, after next Monday, to pay Id more for morning tea, afternoon tea, lunch or dinner than at present is the ease.
This increase in the price of meals was announced yesterday by city restauranteurs. At a meeting of the Wellington Tearooms, Restaurant and Refreshment Rooms Proprietors’ Association held recently, it was decided to impose a surcharge of Id on meals for the purpose of meeting the increased cost ol' foodstuffs and the higher wages and working costs brought about by the recent tearooms’ and restaurant employees' award. It was decided to make the surcharge operative from September 12.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19732, 10 September 1938, Page 2
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