Fat Cats by Charlie Podrebarac for August 24, 2020

Yep…. but since about 20 years ago, in Calfornia, you can’t discriminate in pricing services.

Things like dry cleaning, haircuts, and laundry have to cost the same for both (or all) genders.

Some places use a bit of semantic trickery… you can charge more for cleaning, say, a “blouse” than a shirt…

but the customer can insist that her garment is a shirt.

The excuse used to be that women’s clothing had more detail… but now everybody, equally, pays extra for pleats or ruffles.

I can’t charge extra for a woman’s haircut… but legally, I could charge extra for the blow dry that more women want than men.

And you can still have a businessman’s or businesswoman’s lunch on the menu… as long as any customer can feel free to order either.

A funny view of our culture that not many men would want to order something called “Lady’s tea.”

I told the nice owner of a local Mom ‘n Pop cafe that I didn’t want to order something called “The Hungry Farmhand’s Breakfast” …

So he changed it to something generic… I think the “Breakfast Special” … and he later thanked me.

He said he sold twice as many that way