A new service charge could land on your check at some restaurants and bars across the city during the World Cup.

Why it matters: Businesses are considering auto-charges when international visitors descend on Philly for the tourney this summer, many from countries with far different tipping customs.

🧾 Driving the news: The Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association is advising its members to add a roughly 20% service charge to bills temporarily during the tourney, which runs June 11–July 19.

• But businesses that adopt the recommendation would set their own rates — meaning the charge will vary from place to place.

What they're saying: "Tipping customs vary widely around the world," PRLA spokesperson Ben Fileccia tells Axios

• "Many of our visitors will come from countries where service is included, tipping is minimal or tipping is simply not part of the culture," he added.

How it works: A service charge is not a tip.

• So exactly where that money goes will depend on the restaurant's policy.

Yes, but: The industry group recommends that any service charge go to tipped employees like servers and bartenders, Fileccia says.

💰 Worth noting: Pennsylvania's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but for tipped workers, it's only $2.83 an hour.

• So service workers rely on tips, which in the U.S. have a typical baseline of 15–20%.

Meanwhile, service charges are not a foreign concept in Philly.

• Some restaurants are already using them — like River Twice, My Loup and Loco Pez.

Zoom out: Restaurants in other U.S. cities hosting World Cup matches are considering adding auto-charges to bills, too, like Kansas City.

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Philly fans got the holy trinity this weekend: Phillies, Sixers and Flyers all playing on the same day.

Why it matters: It's the dream — posting up at a pub or plopping on the couch, beers and cheesesteaks in hand, for eight straight hours of sports-induced anxiety.

• Here's our running diary of Saturday's drama:

4:14pm: OK, can we get a Schwarbomb to start this party? Let's go Phils. No, we cannot. Kyle strikes out on a change-up. Love that for us.

🤬 4:55pm: Full count. Uh-oh. Pitch misses the plate, and Andrew Painter just forced in a run. Quick mound visit. I wonder what they told him: "Try throwing strikes."

4:58pm: Whatever they said didn't work. Painter walks in another run. Death by a thousand almost-strikes.

⚾ 5:06pm: Schwar bombs. Seven straight at-bats for Kyle. Seven straight strikeouts — a masterclass in consistency.

😞 6:30pm: Trea Turner flies out to midfield. The Phillies are shut out for the fourth time this year. Interim skipper Don Mattingly loses his first game as interim skipper. Harbinger?

7:00pm: The sports gods are smiling on Philly. ESPN reports that Celtics star guard Jayson Tatum is out of Game 7 with stiffness in left knee.

💪 8:22pm: Call him Swoll (pronounced: Swo-el) Embiid! The big guy muscles in a layup and hits the free throw to finish the 3-point play, giving the Sixers a 44-40 advantage. Not today, Boston.

8:29pm: In the time it took me to switch back to the Flyers game, they've given up two goals. Guess it's not a channel-toggling night.

🍎 8:57pm: Do you like apples, Boston? How do you like dem apples? Tyrese Maxey nails a deep 3. Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla scowls from the sidelines.

• Maxey hits another bucket, part of an 8-0 Philly run. Mad Max forces Mopey Mazzulla to call timeout.

9:23pm: Officially giving up on the Flyers. Noms on pita bread to self-soothe.

9:40pm: Sixers are falling apart. I'm falling apart. Paul George is falling apart. He just fouled Brown, who absorbed the contact to complete a 3-point play.

• Embiid gets his knee clipped and goes down. I clutch my chest.

🏥 9:41pm: Someone call a medic … for the Celtics. Unfazed, Swoll Embiid pops right back up and buries a 3 at the other end.

🍏 10:02pm: Camera pans to Tatum with his arms crossed. One word: apples. #GrannySmithEnergy.

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🏀 Basketball is boss in Philly. Bruce Springsteen has postponed his concert, scheduled for Friday at Xfinity Mobile Arena, to May 30 because of the 76ers' playoff game against the Knicks. (Rolling Stone)

🍎 A late-season freeze devastated crops at Linvilla Orchards, wiping out 60%–90% of apples and 90% of peaches. (Inquirer)

👟 The Broad Street Run had a repeat winner: Josh Izewski won the men's title again, clocking in with a course-record 45:08.

• Meanwhile, Tessa Barrett won the women's race in 52:24 in her debut. (6ABC)

Workers have never been more dissatisfied with their pay or their ability to get ahead. But the likelihood of moving to a new employer is at multiyear lows.

• Those are the bleak findings from a recent New York Federal Reserve Bank survey.

Why it matters: For most workers, switching jobs is the fastest route to a raise or a promotion. But with hiring at historically low levels, that path has all but disappeared.

By the numbers: The share of workers who said they were satisfied with wage compensation fell 3.3 percentage points, to 52.3%, in March, the smallest share in the survey's 12-year history.

The intrigue: Record dissatisfaction is not accompanied by plans to exit, at least not in the near term.

• On average, workers' likelihood that they will have a new employer in the next four months dropped to 9.7%, the lowest since March 2021.

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Hi, Mike here! With Mother's Day this coming weekend, it got me thinking about all the lies my mom told me when I was a wee lad.

Why it matters: All moms lie, but some of them (or at least the important ones) are done out of love.

You know what I'm talking about:

• The ones boosting our confidence — "Your long hair in high school looked awesome, Mike."
• Helping keep us honest — "If you lie, your nose will grow."
• Protecting us from life's challenges — "Our dog was sick, so we sent him to the farm upstate to live."
• Keeping us healthy — "If you eat too many doughnuts, you'll turn into one."

Then there are the questionable ones:

• "Don't walk on manhole covers because you'll fall through."
• "You have to wait 30 minutes to go in the water after you eat or you'll get a cramp."

📬 Now it's your turn: We want to hear the lies your mom told you to that helped you become who you are today.

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