Free Chips Are Dead at This Federal Hill Spot, Now It’s $7 a Basket

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For more than 20 years, Blue Agave Mexican Food in Federal Hill handed out chips and salsa to every table that walked through its doors. Not anymore. The restaurant now charges $7 for the snack, a change that has split its customer base between shrugging acceptance and online outrage.

The shift became public after Blue Agave posted a September social media video showing the manual labor behind slicing fresh produce and frying chips in-house, as reported by The Baltimore Banner. The video drew more than 700 comments, according to the same report. Where the restaurant previously served three 3-ounce ramekins of salsa, it now serves a bowl of chips twice as large as before alongside two 7-ounce containers of salsa, per the Banner’s reporting…

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