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The guys talk about all you can eat buffets implementing surcharges for unclean plates. They then address, "I have an minor working for me who said they would work for half of what the minimum wage is. Can I legally do this?" Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to Legally Smart Sound Business. This is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And this is Matt Staub. NASIR: And welcome to the podcast where we cover business stories with our legal twist and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener, can send to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness.com. MATT: It is the Friday episode so I’d like to give a shout-out to a select listener. I got some compliments this week from – I’ll give the first name only – Ericka. She was giving compliments out. Every introduction is a little bit different and she liked that. NASIR: She liked that? MATT: Yeah, thanks for listening. We appreciate it. I’m sure she’s one of the people too that have given us a good review on iTunes. NASIR: She’d better have. Otherwise, I’ll be upset. Otherwise, we should take back that compliment or that thank-you that you gave. MATT: We can always edit it out so that’s not a problem. NASIR: That’s true. We’ll check it afterwards. We’ll have our fact-checkers do that. MATT: All right. Let’s get into the story we have for today. This is something near and dear to my heart. NASIR: Very good. MATT: The premise of this story is a restaurant has added – and I think this is in Switzerland, I’m trying to remember – yeah, it’s a Swiss restaurant that’s adding a surcharge for all-you-can-eat customers who don’t actually clear their plate. And so, I have a couple of problems with this. (1) I’ve never even had this issue ever so I don’t even understand the plate that’s not clean. That’s a little bit confusing to me. (2) It’s not all you can eat if you’re charging someone. I get their idea because, at buffets, people don’t do it right and they’ll just go up there and grab a ton of stuff and eat half of it and move onto the next plate. You’re paying for that service. Adding a surcharge to it, I don’t like that. NASIR: Really? One reason I hate these all-you-can-eat places is because, if you just look to your right, look to your left, you just have people that just go overboard, fill their plates up, and then they’re like small little thin people. How are they going to finish that plate? And then, you look over twenty minutes later, it’s pretty much still full. That’s a little frustrating, no? I mean, it’s just so wasteful. I don’t have the same problem but I think, at the same time though, I guess I was just raised to clear my plate. I control the size of my eyes compared to the food or my stomach or whatever the stupid saying is. MATT: Yeah. As always, not good with the reference. You do raise a good point. You definitely see that a bunch but, to me, that’s why you’re paying for it. It’s that opportunity and it is very wasteful but you’re paying for the opportunity to be wasteful if you want. NASIR: No, you’re paying to be able to eat all you want. That doesn’t mean that you should take things that you’re not going to eat, right? MATT: Yeah, but it’s all you can eat. I don’t know. I don’t necessarily agree with this. NASIR: But, if you can’t eat it, you shouldn’t take it. MATT: I agree with that but I don’t like the surcharge and they have some pretty funny ones that happen in the US, too. I think it was they sued a sushi restaurant because they cut him off because he wasn’t eating the rice in the sushi. He was just eating the fish. NASIR: Yeah, I saw that. MATT: Which is kind of funny. If you go anywhere, that’s why they give you as much rice as possible because they try to fill you up. This is a nice tactic if you don’t want to fill up, just don’t eat the rice. I’m giving advice now from an eating perspective. NASIR: Yeah, that’s a little different. That’s true. MATT: This one’s really funny. A man in Wisconsin called the police to complain afte...