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   From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com   
      
   On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:13:22 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   wrote:   
      
   >Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >> In article <10ip638$3kkbb$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com 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."   
   >>   
   >> That reminds me; What's the deal with my FB feed containing several postings   
   >> lecturing me to tip 40% and postings (suspiciously AI-generated) of people's   
   >> restaurant bills with comments written about the tip? I saw one in which the   
   >> waiter presumably wrote on a bill with no tip that they were calling the   
   >> cops.   
      
   LOL. If a waiter ever wrote such a thing I would definitely not tip.   
   Even if I loved their service. Just to see if they were foolish enough   
   to call the cops out for my deciding not to offer an optional   
   gratuity.   
   >   
   >I haven’t seen anything like that   
      
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