Why Some DC Restaurants Recently Started Charging Credit Card Fees

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Why Some DC Restaurants Recently Started Charging Credit Card Fees
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Service fees. Covid recovery fees. Wellness fees. Now add one more to the growing list of extra charges showing up on DC restaurant checks: credit card fees. A handful of restaurants—from casual sandwich bar Fight Club to pricey omakase counter Sushi Nakazawa—have recently started forcing diners who throw down a Visa or AmEx to pay more for their meals.

He says he often feels taken advantage of when he encounters one on a menu. And it’s easier to explain credit card processing fees than service fees, which come with“If I look at all the options that are out there, I would rather put a light on the credit card companies,” Black says. Perhaps counterintuitively, some credit card processors have recently started pitching the idea of passing credit card fees to customers, but framed as “cash discounts,” says Jordan Cotton, co-owner of Union Market rum distillery and bar Cotton & Reed. In this scenario, the processing fees for customers are slightly higher than what businesses would typically pay.

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