Article: Service charge for flat is increasing ; Q: Two years ago I bought a one-bedroom flat in a block of four. The problem is the service charge is increasing, and now runs at pounds50 a month. I am a pensioner and am finding it impossible to manage. They are now saying the ground rent is going up, from pounds10 a year to pounds108 a year. Do I have to pay these charges?

Article: Exclusive Manhattan restaurant reaches tipping point with ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Waiter, there's a service charge on my soup. Customers at ... Waters instituted a mandatory service charge 16 years ago. The fee, recently increased ... French Laundry has had a service charge, currently 19 percent ...

Article: Restaurant's 20 percent service charge creates ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... YORK _ Waiter, there's a service charge on my soup. Customers at ... Waters instituted a mandatory service charge 16 years ago. The fee, recently increased ... French Laundry has had a service charge, currently 19 percent ...

Article: Nepali Hotel workers to get 10 percent service ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 31, 2006 ;     331 words ... ... country. "The workers will get service charge for serving food, beverages ... will be benefited from this service charge. The Nepal Trade Union Congress ... entrepreneurs had refused to provide service charge five years ago on the grounds that the number ...

Article: Public opinion tips toward a service charge
The Boston Globe;  July 16, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... the European standard service charge so that waiters get ... wages and retains the service charge rather than passing ... just as happy paying a service charge rather than calculating ... waitpeople. A few years ago, Southwest cuisine ...

Article: United Reinstates Service Charge for Employees' ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 24, 2002 ;     678 words ... ... reinstating the ticket charges -- which it dropped several years ago -- on Jan. 1, the airline said Monday. Currently, employees ... spokesman Joe Hopkins. First-class passengers pay the service charge plus taxes. The charges are expected to cover the $32 million ...

Article: Residents refuse to pay service charge.
Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England);  January 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... action after withholding their [pounds sterling]102 monthly service charge. Around 20 residents at the Ribble Heights development have ... gone up from [pounds sterling]32 when I moved here 17 years ago to [pounds sterling]102. It's an outrage, it makes ...

Article: Rera stops hike in service charge.
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  February 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... some buyers to take up their cases with the developers a few years ago. Sultan Bin Mijrin, director-general of the Land Department ... strictly enforced and it will help restore investor confidence. Service charge has been a major issue for property buyers. Putting this ...