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Or How About Adding The Tip To The Price And Paying A Decent Wage?
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They -- merchants, baristas, clerks -- REALLY want you to leave bigger tips. And they're using technology to encourage you to add big tips to your food purchases. What kind of tips? Oh, how about 75 PERCENT? Yes, they're automating tips on touchscreens or using card scanners, and the "suggested" amounts sometimes show options like 25%, 50%, and 75%. They do give you the option to "customize" or not add a tip, but they make you go through menus to do it. 20% for sit-down means and 10-15% for counter service appears not to be enough. (New York Times)
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