The Delhi High Court on July 20 stayed the recent guidelines issued by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) banning restaurants and hotels across the country from levying service charge by adding it along with the food bill.
Justice Yashwant Varma gave the direction while hearing pleas by the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI), restaurant owners and promoters against a July 4 guidelines issued by CCPA.
The high court said that CCPA’s guidelines, which effectively barred restaurants and hotels from adding service charge automatically or by default in the bill, will be kept in abeyance till November 25, the next date of hearing.
