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   On 2025-12-28 1:03 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Dec 28, 2025 at 9:32:59 AM PST, "Rhino"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-27 12:47 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   More and more restaurants around here are automatically adding tips to   
   the   
   >>>   bill-- even for parties of just one or two-- as a mandatory charge. They   
   >>> don't   
   >>>   call them tips, since legally tips have to be voluntary. They label them   
   >>>   things like "staff health care fee" and "worker compensation fee" and   
   >>> "living   
   >>>   wage fee".   
   >>>   
   >>>   And of course even after they charge you one of those bullshit mandatory   
   >>> fees,   
   >>>   they still add the tip line at the bottom for you to pay them even *more*   
   >>>   money. Whenever I see one of these exciting new fees on the bill, I just   
   >>> draw   
   >>>   a line with an arrow from the tip line up to the fee, circle it, and   
   write,   
   >>>   "That's your tip."   
   >>>   
   >> Matt Walsh just did this video on Tipping Culture:   
   >>   
   >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dad2hoPZJKc   
   >>   
   >> There's some interesting historical perspective as you get further into   
   >> the video. He also mentions an anti-tipping backlash from the early 1900s.   
   >   
   > I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I'm a proud member of the Anti-Tipping   
   > Party! We're called Taftites.   
   >   
   >   
   Let the merchants dread the Taftites and mend their ways!   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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