Restaurants and hotels can raise prices but cannot levy service charges without the customer’s explicit consent, union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said.
Goyal said that if restaurant owners want to pay higher salaries to their employees, they are free to increase rates on their food menu as there are no price controls in the country.
“Restaurants can charge whatever they want, there’s no price control from the government’s side. Some of them are transparent to the extent that they also say prices are inclusive of taxes or GST will be charged separately," minister of consumer affairs, food & public distribution said.
