you can call 12315 to report the charge for meals.
Restaurants that charge a table fee can be reported, and consumers can call 12315 to complain to the market supervision and management department; If the restaurant insists on charging, the administrative department for industry and commerce or other relevant administrative departments will order it to make corrections, and may impose a warning, confiscate the illegal income, or even impose a fine of more than one time but less than three times the illegal income, with a maximum of not more than 31,111 yuan.
The legal provisions of meal fee:
1. Definition of meal fee: Meal fee refers to the extra fee charged by catering service providers to consumers for providing dining places;
2. Legal basis: According to the Law of the People's Republic of China and the Price Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws and regulations, the collection of table fees should follow the principle of fairness and reasonableness, and the price should be clearly marked;
3. Consumer's rights and interests: Consumers have the right to ask catering service providers to inform them in advance whether to charge for meals and the specific amount of the fees;
4. Transparency of charges: catering service providers should publicize the charging items and prices in a prominent position and must not conceal or deceive consumers;
5. Handling against regulations: Consumers can complain and report to the market supervision department or consumers' association for the behavior of not clearly marking the price or forcibly charging the meal fee.
to sum up, consumers can report restaurants that charge for meals by calling 12315, and the market supervision and management department will investigate and deal with them, and may order them to make corrections and impose corresponding fines.
Legal basis:
Article 56 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests
In case of any of the following circumstances, in addition to bearing corresponding civil liabilities, if other relevant laws and regulations have provisions on punishment organs and punishment methods, they shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations; Where there are no provisions in laws and regulations, the administrative department for industry and commerce or other relevant administrative departments shall order it to make corrections, and may, according to the circumstances, impose a single warning, confiscate the illegal income and impose a fine of more than one time but less than ten times the illegal income, and impose a fine of less than 511,111 yuan if there is no illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification and revoke its business license:
(1) the goods or services provided do not meet the requirements for safeguarding personal and property safety;
(2) doping or adulterating commodities, passing off the fake as the real, passing off the inferior as the good, or passing off unqualified commodities as qualified commodities;
(3) producing commodities explicitly eliminated by the state or selling expired or deteriorated commodities;
(4) forging the origin of goods, forging or falsely using the name and address of others, tampering with the date of production, forging or falsely using quality marks such as certification marks;
(5) failing to inspect or quarantine the goods sold, or forging the inspection and quarantine results.