Hate when restaurants do this

Went to Ben Paris for brunch. The food was great but when it came to paying the bill the servers don’t even show you the full receipt. Directly to the tipping screen. When I came home to review the bill I see a 2% culinary appreciation fee.

I understand the rising costs of running a restaurant business, but this is just scummy. Scalping off money from guests like this leaves such a bad taste! Increase your food costs instead? They’re already an upscale restaurant charging high prices for nominal food. Why do this?

Just to be clear I’m not bothered by the extra $2 I had to pay. But normalizing such ways to scalp more money is my problem.