> Restaurant owners like Laurie Thomas, who heads the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, say the changes will bring higher prices and sticker shock, which could then raise a psychological hurdle in customers' dining habits. That, in turn, will hurt restaurants and their workers, she warns.<p>> "If it's in the core price of the menu, there will be a pullback" in patrons' spending, she told NPR shortly before the attorney general released the guidelines. "There are some people, I think, that are hoping that the restaurants will just absorb that cost, because we've seen people say, 'Oh, it's too expensive with the service charge.' "<p>> Under the new guidelines, Thomas' organization said in an email to NPR, restaurants will be forced to impose "significant menu price increases." And if customers eat out less, it warns, "Not only will restaurants struggle, but workers will lose hours and jobs."<p>Suggestion: Instead of mandating honest pricing, CA should just allow their tax collectors to add fees and tariffs and surcharges and other crap to the tax bills of businesses that do not do honest pricing. Then, when those businesses complain, whine about the pain of government having to absorb the lower revenues, and government workers losing hours and jobs, and having to make cuts to various feel-good programs, and ...