Went out to a pizza place the other night. Thought it was a brewery (one of my favorite local brews, actually), and had been there before and enjoyed flights from them…only to find out the place was a joint between the brewmaster and the restaurateur. Brewmaster took his share, his recipes, and dipped.
Anyways while the food was pretty good, I mostly went for the beer and that’s a big part of why I won’t go back (they only had a couple cans from the brewery left and nothing on tap, only some other regional breweries).
But the other part is that my wife put a tip down on the slip for our party of four (us and two kids) and asked me to doublecheck her math. I thought it seemed high and it turned out they already put a tip on the bill. For a party of four. Never saw that before.
BassaForte@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If a restaurant adds something to the bill I didn’t agree to beforehand, I’m not paying.
corship@feddit.de 7 months ago
That would be confident, but usually it’s not worth the trouble.
I’d rather leave with 20 quid less than wasting 30 min of my time.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So your time must be worth 40/hour or more to make it not worth the trouble?
Lupus108@feddit.de 7 months ago
Not OP but my nerves are definitely worth more than 20 bucks.
corship@feddit.de 7 months ago
It’s a risk reward analysis and not strictly a 1:1 hour pay relation. No one guarantees you any positive outcome here.
Best case I get the fee removed after a short conversation.
Worst case, I have to engage in a long drawn argument still having to pay full afterwards.
best case was a simple mistake and I just have to ask politely. This can be considered very unlikely in this case because the recipient has a dedicated section for the fee, indicating that they’re not going to make any change to the bill. So the risk reward is highly leaning towards the worst case as the expected outcome.
fushuan@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My time is worth way more than 40/h when I’m out with friends trying to have a good time. I’m never going to the restaurant again and that’s it.
Neato@kbin.social 7 months ago
That's like $80k a year. Not that much.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Oh. It wouldn’t take me nearly 30 minutes. It would be less than 5 total minutes.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
How about just leaving the correct amount of cash on the table and walking away without saying a word.
snooggums@kbin.social 7 months ago
I have never eaten at a restaurant that did not disclose a mandatory gratuity ahead of time, but I suppose it could happen.
alignedchaos@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s wonderful for you, but it does happen.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They should have it listed somewhere in large print and/or verbally inform people so patrons are aware ahead of time