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Service Charge Statement

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In a past few months, there was a hot issue in Thailand about imposing service charge on top of foods’ and drinks’ prices. To understand clearly about service charge, I will give you a meaning of it. Service charge means an extra charge made for serving customers in a restaurant. Therefore, imposing service charge is to let the customers pay something extra which is not a price of foods and drinks that they have ordered. When this issue became widespread, there are many peoples gave an opinion on it. Some people stated that there is no legal principle for the owners of the restaurant to charge their customers for service charge so they, as the customers, can choose whether they will pay for service charge or not. On the other hand, some people stated that although there is no written law about charging service charge from the customers, it can be applied by general principle of law under principle of contract and obligation. If I were the owner of the restaurant, to impose service charge from the customer does not include only a cost of serving foods and drinks to customers but also include other services, for example, cooking, venue, atmosphere of the restaurant, and others materials. Obviously, it contains many factors which the owner said that just only a price of food is not enough for …show more content…

It refers to a principle that is recognized in all kinds of legal relations, regardless of the legal system to which it belongs. It can also be a principle that is widely recognized by people whose legal order has attained a certain level of sophistication. Therefore, this principle can be applied to any cases that has no law or regulation that can be applied because it is impossible for legislature to predict and give solution for every problem. Like service charge, it has no law that can be applied to it directly but we can use general principle of law as the basic reason to solve the

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