Going to Plantation Walk, the hot new food-and-shopping paradise? Be prepared for surcharges

Tacocraft is the first — and so far, only — restaurant to open inside the $350 million food-shopping playground known as Plantation Walk. Diners and shoppers should be prepared for a 1 percent surcharge on their receipts, which was added by the shopping center's developer to finance entertainment events at the complex. (Susan Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) After eating her shrimp salad at the new Tacocraft Taqueria and Tequila Bar at Plantation Walk in April, Ashley Munson scanned her table’s $61 lunch check. There it was, right at the bottom: a 61-cent fee called the “Plantation Walk Surcharge.” Munson and her three girlfriends flagged a server. “I just asked the waitress what it was, and she was like, ‘It’s for the entertainment in the center, I think?’” Munson recalls. “So I joked to the table, ‘Uh, that’s kind of stupid. Tacocraft is the only place here.’ And the waitress laughed and said, ‘Yes, lots of people have been saying the same thing.’ " 

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Fort Lauderdale mayor takes aim at noise: ‘I do not want Las Olas to turn into Ocean Drive’

FORT LAUDERDALE — Mayor Dean Trantalis was trying to enjoy dinner on Las Olas with family and friends when the ambiance was ruined by an unwelcome but familiar part of life in tourist-friendly South Florida: The deafening vroom vroom vroom of a parade of motorcycles and souped-up cars. “It was loud,” Trantalis griped at a recent City Hall meeting. “I do not want to see Las Olas Boulevard turn into Ocean Drive — and that’s where we’re headed.” 

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