Restaurant charged customers to breathe clean air

It’s a restaurant upcharge item for the lungs, not the stomach.

A Zhangjiagang, China, restaurant was reportedly charging $0.15 on each customer’s bill to pay for a new air filtration system installed because of smog warnings, according to a UPI.com post.

Customer complaints led to the upcharge policy being shut down, with the reasoning being that air can not be sold as a commodity, the UPI story said.

Smog in Beijing was thick enough last week to prompt the city’s first ever red alert for air quality, which closed schools and factories.