“IF AND ONLY IF”.

If the exact round number makes your life easier, then the non round number on the other end is harder for the other person.

“that probably aren’t whole round numbers either.”

Have you handled dried porcinis? They have a pretty rich, earthy, funky, umami smell. A bit like mushroomy soy sauce.

This is the most cheerful and positive public creeping I’ve ever seen.

Maybe. It’s less of a what the fuck the more common credit is as payment method, when credit tips run through payroll, and with modern POS systems. All shit that makes it less noticable.

To clarify 30-60% of actual, total cash tips. Not 30% of sales *as* tips/ a 30% tip rate.

The bulk of the restaurant business is in very small, independent, owner operator businesses. Resources are fairly tight, and a lot of it is weirdly behind the times.

You are going to hear that people hate it.

“still forcing servers to literally beg (or cajole, or guilt-trip) customers in to paying for their very livelihood and survival?”

“I believe the government assumes an 8% tip for income tax purposes on cash transactions”

“you’ll see that the rounding game people tend to give slightly higher tips than the other two groups.”

With 15 years in FOH *most* restaurants I worked with tipped out credit at the end of the night. I currently wholesale beer to bars and restaurants, a lot of my accounts still do this.

“Are the tips, even those left on a credit card, typically paid out to the servers in cash?”

Yeah. But that means you will likely be handed 12 cents at the end of the night. And it just takes longer and causes more errors to total things out and balance everything up when there’s change all over the place.

Doesn’t matter much. Cash is always nice cause you always get cash now, but a lot of places pay out credit tips in cash at the end of the night.

Correct. It is way harder to steal credit tips. And much easier to prove wage garnishment when they are stolen. 

Taxes. Because of the paper trail all credit tips are reported on payroll for tac withholding.

Apparently salty doesn’t know any servers. Cause people absolutely think “oh one of these assholes”. The extra 12 cents isn’t doing much beyond creating a mild inconvenience, but no one wants the mild inconvenience so your accounting is slightly easier.

1 is run but a bit hokey and doesn’t entirely hold up. 2 is legitimately one of the best games of the type to come out. And 3 is complicated.