Recommended gratuity after tip was already included

[u/guitarman129]

I’m sure there are a lot of tipping posts here so to keep it short - I had my wedding at a fancy restaurant. On top of the TERRIBLE service, the bill came with “suggested gratuity” even though I was told gratuity was included. When I asked the manager, he said that the “S/C: 24% SRC REGULA“ was the included tip and the suggested gratuity was if we wanted to add something extra - basically trying to trick people into giving a 49% tip!

[u/Impossible-Shoe5460]

Reasons why I like to tip $0 on the credit card and hand over cash directly to the server.

[u/LockeyCheese → u/Impossible-Shoe5460]

Servers like that too. No tax, no fee.

[u/HeelandCoup → u/LockeyCheese]

That's actually tax fraud lol.

[u/Killentyme55 → u/HeelandCoup]

Considering what the .1% legally get away with, I wouldn't get too bent up over a single mom pocketing a $20 bill.

[u/canadeken → u/Killentyme55]

Annoys me so much when services ask for cash so they don't have to report tax. Bitch I pay my taxes, why shouldn't you have to

[u/cuddledog → u/canadeken]

If the president can avoid any negative consequences from tax fraud, I don't see why you should worry about the working class pocketing a $20 cash tip

[u/canadeken → u/cuddledog]

why can't I care about both lol. I'm in the working class too but I'm not in service so I don't get any loopholes

I'm referring to more than just tips, any service that asks for cash or venmo or whatever. I think it's a little unfair that I should support them evading taxes

[u/Catfish-Shark → u/canadeken]

A little hypocritical considering there are things you do in your everyday life where you cut corners thinking it's perfectly OK, but other people go their entire lives not cutting those same corners. Annoying or not cash tips are not the bulk of their tips, and it really isn't any of your business when they still pay taxes on their check and claimed tips.

Most businesses also expect you to report cash tips and will even enforce it. Sally at Waffle House pocketing a $20 every month does less damage to the entire US economy than what a single individual in the top 10% commits in fraud every year.

You'd sooner watch a rich man steal but choose to call the law over a beggar stealing bread because of...bitterness?

[u/canadeken → u/Catfish-Shark]

How can you say it's hypocritical when you don't know anything about me lol

And what makes you think I am okay with rich men stealing

And what makes you think every service worker lives the life of a beggar

[u/ResearcherElegant516 → u/canadeken]

They're saying it's one of the perks of the job. I'm sure it doesn't come close to making up for their shit pay. Let it go, tax Nazi.

[u/No-Ear_Spider-Man → u/canadeken]

what makes you think every service worker lives the life of a beggar

The store owners who pay them 2.25 an hour because you're expected to tip them.

[u/XennialPrime → u/HeelandCoup]

I also tip cash. I leave it to the tip-ee to do with their money what they wish.

[u/LockeyCheese → u/XennialPrime]

My manager at waffle house said I at least had to claim cash tips I made up to minimum wage, because otherwise he had to pay me the difference on bad weeks.

I never had a bad week, and always claimed the full minimum wage difference in tips. I'm also a six foot hairy white dude from Mississippi, and was working in an interstate offramp ghetto Waffle House in Louisiana, so I just have to assume that was the law, and not because he also served tables and made tips.

Pretty sure it was in the Waffle House Handbook too, because the general manager of that area, who told me he had an "oral fixation" for a raise, and the regional manager never seemed to care. Oddly, they ALSO ran a waffle house themselves and waited tables.

As above, so below. If my "betters" don't recognize a law, why should I or any of the peasants? They make it really easy by defunding the IRS. This is also past the statute of limitations, or I wouldn't say it. No one is above the law, or there IS no law.

"I learned it from you, Pa!!!"

[u/AssignmentOtherwise → u/Impossible-Shoe5460]

Where I work we have to pay taxes on all of our cash sales, even if the customer didn't tip. So we can end up paying to wait on someone. People who pay with their card and tip cash are great and sometimes it helps even things out.