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In reply to the discussion: Completely f'd up business practice I just found out about [View all]Glassunion
(10,201 posts)51. You're not understanding
If you pay by CC, and tip in cash the server brings food and the bar gets paid, but if you pay cash the tab is paid with money, but not if with a CC, unless you are at a restaurant. Now if you pay with a CC and include a tip the diner pays but not in cash under tip and the diner gets nothing.
What's the problem?
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AND it takes profits from the thieving credit card companies, which is always the polite thing to do
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#103
I love you. Tell me where this place is and if I'm ever in your town Im eating there.
TeamPooka
Dec 2013
#10
I used to live in Pleasantville. At one point, the town was lousy with my relatives!
dorkzilla
Dec 2013
#219
Everybody knows that when you use a credit card the business doesn't get the charged amount.
FarCenter
Dec 2013
#11
Just chalk it up to the cost of doing business (which it is) and having a clear conscience.
AAO
Dec 2013
#81
CC companies can afford to offer to dog et al because some people pay 12% to 30% on a balance.
FarCenter
Dec 2013
#21
If the OP want to do so, fine by me. But the OP is kicking in an additional percent to the tip jar.
FarCenter
Dec 2013
#39
The part about the owner adding to the tip jar by not charging the servers the cc cost
Incitatus
Dec 2013
#115
And as a customer, I would prefer to be charged a fair price for the food and service
Ms. Toad
Dec 2013
#48
It's the American way. Restaurants will lose money if they go "Euro" in pricing (BTW, I personally
WinkyDink
Dec 2013
#141
The problem is that not doing it directly cuts profit margins, and many owners wont do that.
Xithras
Dec 2013
#67
Agreed, but since I can't change the system I'll opt for protecting my people.
dorkzilla
Dec 2013
#112
I always pay tips in cash, even when I use a card for the meal. nt
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Dec 2013
#145
Transaction fees are a corporate tax and should be outlawed. Banks already charge high interest
Monk06
Dec 2013
#177
The credit card fee losses was one of the reasons used to keep the minimum wage lower for
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
#75
Thanks, Hoyt, that's what I think (about the prices). I don't know why this is so convoluted. n/t
dorkzilla
Dec 2013
#121
Good catch. My experience with greedy business owners is they are always trying to
Hoyt
Dec 2013
#130
that's called WAGE THEFT and it's not something I'd expect to see promoted by a DU'er
nashville_brook
Dec 2013
#147
Some businesses charge credit card users extra to offset some of the fee taken by the
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#163
I take it that you are new to being a SBO? In the Big Book of Employment, this is one
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#5
You're absolutely right, and that's how we've run all of our businesses.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#23
Yes, but you are in the one business that we've considered and rejected time and time again,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#77
My server friends are grateful when they're tipped cash - specifically because of this practice.
myrna minx
Dec 2013
#7
I try to tip cash because sometimes the servers don't get the cc gratuity for weeks
dorkzilla
Dec 2013
#14
Many times servers are forbidden to talk about it too, even if asked by a customer
myrna minx
Dec 2013
#24
Well, the thing is that if the tip is given in cash, the restaurant gets the whole tip,
Yo_Mama
Dec 2013
#26
Two of the three chefs on Master Chef have been caught doing it. nt
Fantastic Anarchist
Dec 2013
#31
To be honest, I read about all three and I can't remember which two.
Fantastic Anarchist
Dec 2013
#191
To the people who say tip with cash. You know we are on the way to becoming a
totodeinhere
Dec 2013
#69
Not for a couple more generations, barring some dramatic social change.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#80
Due to business needs, it is not uncommon for me to have three to four thousand dollars in my wallet
Ikonoklast
Dec 2013
#212
I'm waiting for the banks to act like they can charge you for accepting cash.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2013
#79
I’m a small business owner and always felt if you needed employees and could not afford to ..
busterbrown
Dec 2013
#83
it's just as easy to levy the fee onto customers (if anyone at all)! good on you
dionysus
Dec 2013
#134
Thank you for posting this! I will be sure to ask about this practice next time I go to a restaurant
WinkyDink
Dec 2013
#135
Yep. I used to sell POS systems, and I made a point of not mentioning that option (nt)
Recursion
Dec 2013
#140
i am gonna stress cash tips. we do not go out much. or i do not. but i will carry cash.
pansypoo53219
Dec 2013
#143
k and r--good for you, dorkzilla. looking forward to hearing how well you are doing. will have to
niyad
Dec 2013
#153
thank you for posting this -- this is wage theft, and it's sad that it's so common that
nashville_brook
Dec 2013
#154
Some restaurants don't permit you to put tips on credit card, a different solution (n/t)
thesquanderer
Dec 2013
#155
I know, huh? It would never even cross your mind to do something so...conservative.
Zorra
Dec 2013
#158
You did the right thing, Servers shouldn't suffer because credit card company greed.
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#168
Good point. If we could just make doing the right thing "very sexy, " most of our problems
Hoyt
Dec 2013
#176
Nah, he smirked because our opening has been delayed since July and Ive paid him...
dorkzilla
Dec 2013
#188