From: suzeeq@imbris.com
On 12/31/2025 4:11 PM, Capricorne wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> I wonder if Trump tips. Funny, just thinking about it we seem to know
> the answer, no?
Or like leaves a dollar.
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