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Re: why do i never see restaurant tips coming off of my debit card?
11/30/10 05:58 AM
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> When they run your card at a restaurant, it only asks the card company if you have
> the money to pay for it. That puts a hold onto your account. After you sign the copy
> a server will enter the total (with the tip) into the machine. Some time later,
> usually at the end of the night, the machine will batch process all the credit cards
> for the day and tell the credit companies how much the official amount it. This
> usually takes a day or two to process on your account.
You have to watch them, too. It's happened to me at least once where a server didn't punch in the correct total. I had calculated the tip, then rounded the total up to the next dollar, so the tip was an odd amount and the total came out to an even number. When I looked at the actual charge, the server had punched in the dollar amount I had written but then added the change, too, basically rounding his tip up to the next dollar. I didn't do anything about it because it amounted to like 60 cents, but it definitely frosted my ass, especially where I was already tipping 20%+.
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