From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57:44 AM PST, "shawn"    
   wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   This.   
      
   I would *so* call their bluff.   
      
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