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Travellers aiming to visit the US later in the summer may find a “Covid-19 surcharge” on the bill at bars and restaurants.
A Las Vegas bistro has started applying a 4 per cent charge.
At Mon Ami Gabi, part of Paris Las Vegas, customers are told: “To help offset restrictions on our business resulting from the coronavirus crisis, a 4 percent surcharge has been added to all guest checks.”
Together with local sales tax, the price of a $7.95 bottle of Corona beer increases by more than a dollar, making the sterling price over £7.
But the bistro emphasises the charge is optional: “If you would like this removed please let us know.”
The hospitality industry is facing limits on capacity – at Mon Ami Gabi, the maximum number of diners has been halved.
It is one of several restaurants in the city owned by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, which has applied the same surcharge at El Segundo Sol and Joe’s Seafood in Las Vegas.
In addition, the cost of ingredients has soared, according to some restaurants,.
The Kiko Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Lounge in West Plains, Missouri, was heavily criticised on social media for adding a 5 per cent surcharge.
But the management of the restaurant posted on Facebook: “We are doing this hoping we can adjust the surcharge weekly rather than just raise all of our prices on our menu due to increase prices from our supplier on meat, poultry, seafood and produce.”
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A multidisciplinary group of scientists from across the world took part in a two-week-long palaeontological expedition to the Las Chinas valley in Chilean Patagonia
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Geologists Leslie Manriquez, right, and Eduardo Miller examine a rock layer
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Argentinian palaeontologist Sebastian Apesteguna examines fossil material
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Geologists, palaeobotanists and biologists discovered fossils of vertebrates, studied sediments and rock layers, and searched for fossilised vegetation
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Chilean paleobiologist Marcelo Leppe climbs his way up to an outcrop at the top of a hill in the Las Chinas valley
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The team specialises in the Cretaceous period at the end of the Mesozoic era, which coincided with the extinction of the dinosaurs
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Two paleontologists unearth a fossilised bone – their work in this valley is disclosing valuable new information that is helping to reveal the common past of three continents: Oceania, South America and Antarctica
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A group of palaeontologists work on an outcrop containing fossils
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Argentinian palaeontologists Agustin Martinelli, right, and Jonatan Kaluza place a plaster jacket around a fossilised part of a dinosaur
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Chilean biologist Valentina Poblete glues together a dinosaur rib
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Hector Mansilla examines an unearthed layer of rock
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A group of palaeontologists walk back to camp
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The illuminated tents of the expedition under the night sky in the Las Chinas valley
EPA
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Chilean biologist Valentina Poblete examines the fossilised bones of a vertebrate back at camp
EPA
1/14
A multidisciplinary group of scientists from across the world took part in a two-week-long palaeontological expedition to the Las Chinas valley in Chilean Patagonia
EPA
2/14
Geologists Leslie Manriquez, right, and Eduardo Miller examine a rock layer
EPA
3/14
Argentinian palaeontologist Sebastian Apesteguna examines fossil material
EPA
4/14
Geologists, palaeobotanists and biologists discovered fossils of vertebrates, studied sediments and rock layers, and searched for fossilised vegetation
EPA
5/14
Chilean paleobiologist Marcelo Leppe climbs his way up to an outcrop at the top of a hill in the Las Chinas valley
EPA
6/14
The team specialises in the Cretaceous period at the end of the Mesozoic era, which coincided with the extinction of the dinosaurs
EPA
7/14
Two paleontologists unearth a fossilised bone – their work in this valley is disclosing valuable new information that is helping to reveal the common past of three continents: Oceania, South America and Antarctica
EPA
8/14
A group of palaeontologists work on an outcrop containing fossils
EPA
9/14
Argentinian palaeontologists Agustin Martinelli, right, and Jonatan Kaluza place a plaster jacket around a fossilised part of a dinosaur
EPA
10/14
Chilean biologist Valentina Poblete glues together a dinosaur rib
EPA
11/14
Hector Mansilla examines an unearthed layer of rock
EPA
12/14
A group of palaeontologists walk back to camp
EPA
13/14
The illuminated tents of the expedition under the night sky in the Las Chinas valley
EPA
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Chilean biologist Valentina Poblete examines the fossilised bones of a vertebrate back at camp
EPA
The proprietor of the Kiko, whose slogan is “Big-city quality with small-town hospitality,” said: “Stop calling names to my employees! They are just working there.
“Go ask the meat packer, not us.”