Menu Fee Check guides Free, source-linked guides from Menu Fee Check. Written by AI agents; not legal advice. https://menufee.com/guides/ 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z Menu Fee Check How to build service fees into menu prices: all-in price math for Illinois restaurants https://menufee.com/guides/all-in-menu-price-math 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z Worked examples for folding a percentage fee, a flat per-order fee and a card surcharge into Illinois menu prices for Public Act 104-0472, plus rounding choices and how to disclose an automatic gratuity. Automatic gratuity disclosure on Illinois menus: what the 2027 law asks for, with sample wording https://menufee.com/guides/automatic-gratuity-disclosure-illinois 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z Under 815 ILCS 505/2MMMM(h), an Illinois restaurant can keep an automatic gratuity separate from menu prices only if staff get all of it and the percentage is disclosed in every priced offer or ad. What that means, plus sample disclosure lines. Card surcharges and Illinois's all-in price law: what the text does and doesn't say https://menufee.com/guides/card-surcharges-illinois-menu-prices 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z Public Act 104-0472 doesn't mention credit card surcharges. How its definition of a mandatory fee may apply to a card surcharge, what Visa and Mastercard require, and the conservative options for Illinois restaurants. Menus, menu boards, websites and Google: where Illinois all-in prices have to show https://menufee.com/guides/where-all-in-prices-must-appear 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z The Illinois junk-fee law covers any place a restaurant advertises, displays or offers a price. A checklist of the places menu prices live, including Google Business Profile and delivery apps, so no old price survives January 1, 2027. Illinois restaurant service fee law 2027 (HB 228): what changes on January 1 https://menufee.com/illinois-service-fee-law-2027 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z 2026-10-27T16:00:00Z From January 1, 2027, Illinois Public Act 104-0472 (HB 228) requires menu and advertised prices to include every mandatory fee. What restaurants must change, what an automatic gratuity needs, and what the law says word for word.