From: atropos@mac.com
On Dec 31, 2025 at 4:22:05 PM PST, "suzeeq" wrote:
> 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.
Nope. See my previous post.
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