Have you encountered this?
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That would be a reason not to give a tip.
It's probably basing the tip on a pre discount amount.
The writer is proud of doing math but should be ashamed of their critical thinking and ego.
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The quick way I was taught to eyeball it is to shift the decimal over one place to the left in the total, and double it. That's 20%. In this case $30.53 > $3.053 > $6.106 ~ $6.10
My coworkers would always tell me that when I worked in restaurants, but I never really figured it out with my A.D.D. brain and being distracted with serving customers. Now that I see it written out, that is helpful!
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In California, I usually just double the tax, which normally comes out to about 16%.
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Tips in the US must be entirely out of control. In my experience, 10% is for good service, above for rare exceptional and less if you weren't entirely satisfied. Not even printing anything below 16 is insane.
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It's entered manually, usually at the end of the shift. It's standard for most, if not all restaurants in the United States
It's getting to be less common. A lot of newer/trendier places are giving their wait-staff tablets (which are also handling ordering, seating status, etc), or at least portable payment terminals.
Some of the big established chains have kiosks at the table where you can order apps/drinks directly, pay, play games.
I've also been to several places that'll put a QR code on the receipt for payment. They may also have their menu online that you can get from a QR on the table. As an added bonus that usually means their online menu is actually kept up to date.
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Tips in the US must be entirely out of control. In my experience, 10% is for good service, above for rare exceptional and less if you weren't entirely satisfied. Not even printing anything below 16 is insane.
Tipped minimum wage in the US is $2.13/hour, hence the reason for the high percentages.
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It's getting to be less common. A lot of newer/trendier places are giving their wait-staff tablets (which are also handling ordering, seating status, etc), or at least portable payment terminals.
Some of the big established chains have kiosks at the table where you can order apps/drinks directly, pay, play games.
I've also been to several places that'll put a QR code on the receipt for payment. They may also have their menu online that you can get from a QR on the table. As an added bonus that usually means their online menu is actually kept up to date.
Good point, I've actually used all those payment methods myself as well
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Tipped minimum wage in the US is $2.13/hour, hence the reason for the high percentages.
Oh right i forgot about that. That's insane as well; minimum wage should be… well, minimum, obviously; for everyone.
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Oh right i forgot about that. That's insane as well; minimum wage should be… well, minimum, obviously; for everyone.
Sad thing is regular minimum is only $7.25 at the federal level. This country absolutely despises it's workers.
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I'm (NOT) living in America.
Must be wunderbar
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It's closer to $6.11. I do math
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Pretty sure the waitress wasn't the one who fucked with the register. Probably the restaurant trying to ensure they don't have to pay the difference if the tips come up short and leave the staff below minimum wage.
You think place like that distributes tips honestly?
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The server has to manually enter it.
Here's their bullshit workflow:
- Print the check
- Customer reviews it
- Credit card is given to the server
- Card is swiped/authorized at the POS
- Server returns with the receipts
- Customer then writes in the tip amount and signs on the merchant copy
- Server takes the signed receipt and enters the tip amount back at the POS
For whatever reason, the USA keeps using their signature, when the technology for pay at the table has been around for decades.
Meanwhile, chip & PIN has been standard everywhere in Canada for the last decade, with some businesses using it for almost another decade prior to that. Mexico wasn't far behind either, so it's absolutely possible to adopt better methods.
Money. Banks make money on chargebacks and disputes. The bad system makes them money. That's why we have the bad system. Money. Like always.
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It's probably basing the tip on a pre discount amount.
The writer is proud of doing math but should be ashamed of their critical thinking and ego.
Did you just make up a scenario and then try to shame them for not using the critical thinking you just invented?
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I'm guessing the tip is calculated before any discounts/comps, which would be conspicuously cut off in this photo
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Did you just make up a scenario and then try to shame them for not using the critical thinking you just invented?
That's usually the way the tip calculator works and the top of the receipt is missing.
What's more likely a computer screwed up a percentage, a company screwed the customer for the benefit of the employee or the calculator is following common tipping convention.
Like I said critical thinking.
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I've seen this out and about. It's not uncommon.
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It's closer to $6.11. I do math
Yeah, I'll tip you 20%, but I'll be damned if I don't round down because of your petty scam!
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You tip in Canada? I was hoping this sad culture was limited to usa.
Unfortunately...
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Asterisk: there is such a thing as "minimum wage for tipped workers", which is lower than the normal minimum wage. At least in some provinces.
For instance, in Quebec, the normal minimum wage is $16.10 per hour, but for tipped workers, it's $12.90$.
And yes, my reaction to this is also "what the fuck".
Here in the states, the minimum for tipped workers is $2.13. Also, the federal minimum wage for nontip is $7.25. And they wonder why we can't afford McDonald's over here.
