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[Daily News] Some diners charge that city restaurants are using dishonest tactics to add gratuities to their bills.
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After ordering dessert/coffee, etc. quietly excuse yourself (no need to say where you are going) find wait staff, add gratuity, sign.
Automatically added gratuities are among many restrictions faced by large groups.
It is indeed legal for a restaurant to have an automatic-gratuity policy applied in a uniform fashion, and this is manifest in the large number of restaurants out there that add set gratuities for parties of a given size: usually, parties of six or more.
"A few hotels, mostly resort properties, already add mandatory gratuities on top of resort fees," reports CNBC.
Many restaurants add a gratuity to the bill for parties of six or more.
Hank Taufaasau, the owner of Hank's Cafe Honolulu, said Asian guests often did not add a gratuity.
It's become a fairly standard practice for US chain restaurants to add a gratuity (typically 15 to 18%) to the bills of parties over six or eight.
Additionally, when the credit card slip was returned for signing, the space for a tip is not crossed out (as it should be when it has already been paid) and creatures of habit or the merely distracted might inadvertently add another gratuity.
And with that final amuse bouche of sugar mouse and stuffed rat, I asked for the check, paid the obligatory 12.5percentt service charge, clicked the "no" button when Do You Want To Add A Gratuity? came up on the card machine regardless, and left the restaurant industry.
Some restaurants will add a gratuity for large groups (typically 8 or more), and many restaurants outside the U.S. include the tip as part of the bill.
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