{"id":181429,"date":"2026-05-01T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:43:13","slug":"philadelphia-restaurants-considering-a-20-service-fee-during-fifa-world-cup-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181429\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia restaurants considering a 20% service fee during FIFA World Cup festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you dine out in Philadelphia during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/world-cup-fifa-philadelphia-games-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup events<\/a>, you could end up paying more.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association held a briefing on Thursday, preparing businesses for the influx of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, restaurateurs discussed adding an automatic 20% gratuity charge to customers&#8217; restaurant bills.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses say they want to make sure their employees are supported and protected since tipping culture varies greatly across the world.<\/p>\n<p>A final decision has yet to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is expecting an influx of visitors from abroad as the city hosts six World Cup games: five in the group stage and one in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The city is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-fifa-fan-fest-world-cup-2026-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hosting a FIFA Fan Festival at Lemon Hill<\/a> for the entire duration of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you dine out in Philadelphia during the 2026 FIFA World Cup events, you could end up paying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72,28,69,71,70,2236],"class_list":["post-181429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-food-amp-drink","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}