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🔜 💞 Surcharging may become the new tipping in NYC
Tipping in r🦋estaurants in foodie-centric New York City may be about to go the way of the three-martini lunch. A growing number of restaurants want to take tipping out of... 🦂
Your Seamless order may have been cooked in a 'ghost kitchen'
Chew on this — the food you order on GrubHub and Seamless may have been cooked in a low-grade☂, or even totally unregulated, “ghost kitchen.” Many restaurants listed on the...
𒉰 Whole Foods under investigation for overpricing customers
ꦇ The city Department of Consumer Affairs is investigating Whole Foods for allegedly deceiving customers with incorrect weight-based pricing, the company disclosed Tuesday. Whole Foods denied the allegations and said it...
🅷 Consumers ꦗAffairs CFO booted after lying about college degree -- for 6 years
The $133,000-a-year CFO of the city’s Department of Co🐻nsumer Affairs lost her ﷽job after investigators found out she lied about having a college degree, documents reveal. Remarkably, it took nearly...
De Blasio administration hasn't issued one pedicab ticket in 2015
The city streets are crawling with m﷽enacing pedicab drivers — and the de Blasio administration isn’t doing a thing about it, The Post has learned. Not one rickshaw driver or...
NYC declareꦫs war on free-market hot dogs ♐
The city is about to put the bite on sleazy hot dog vendors. The Department of Consumer Affairs says it’s launching a “crackdo෴wn” on food-cart hawkers who don’t display their...
New 🧸laws could spell the end of motorized pedicabs
The city wants to put the brakes on motorized pedicabs by 🌱revising a rules so poorly written eight years ago that they couldn’t be enforced. The City Council appeared to...
Antiques dealer ripped me off: Widow of Davi𝐆d Brenner
The widow of famed c💖omedian David Brenner said an Upper East Side antiques dea🍒ler ripped her off when he took costly furnishings on consignment and then disappeared with the goods....
♌ City issues first sick-leave violaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtions
The 🅺city has issued violations to a half-dozen businesses for failing to comply with the new paid-sick-leave law — the first enforcement actions since the law was passed in March,...
Pedicab licenses down after city crackdown on o🤡🧜vercharging
Good 🀅riddan💦ce! New York’s pedal-powered plague is in remission, as more than a quarter of pedicab drivers have quit their annoying trade rather than obey new city rules passed to...
𝔍 City cracki𓆏ng down on shady employment agencies
The city is൩ cracking down on shady employment agencies that prey on people desperate for work by demanding cash up front for interviews or applications for nonexistent positions, The Post...
𓆏Car-wash owners decry proposed new regulations as too costly
Car wash owners 🌞say they're being hosed. The City Council is considering a bill to regulate car washes - a tiny industry with just 200 outlets - imposing a long... ⛦
Museum of Sex fined $350 for an improper 👍gift-shop refund poꩵlicy
City code enforcers seem hot and bothered by New York’s Museum of Sex — but not by its exhi🐽bits. The Department of Consumer Affairs fined the Flatiron museum $350 for...
Stores fined for missing or incorrect tobacco war𒀰ning sig🅺ns
The city’s cigarette retailers were issued 2,229 violations𝔉 in 2013 just for inaccurate or missi🔜ng warning signs about who may not buy tobacco products, The Post has learned. The ticket-writing...