Originally Posted by
CVO 1K 2 Million
This has happened to me twice in the last month...and almost never before that.
I suspect you know the drill:
Get the bill, review the charges, give them my card, the card & unsigned slips return, I write in the tip (and also write it on my copy for reconciliation), and leave...
Then I find on my statement that the charge is higher...tried to think if my handwriting was poor or they typed it in correctly or (more cynically) is this a cute way of getting more in tips?
In each case I wasn't "punitively" under-tipping...and the amounts were small enough so that the time lost in pursuing them (less than $2 each time) was too much.
So does this happen with any frequency to the FT community?
This happened a couple times with a coworker after he ordered room service. He specifically put a line through the absurd "extra tip" line (you know, extra tip above the already-absurd 20% they include automatically in addition to the $2 "service charge". yeah, that extra tip line). The waitress added her own amount to that line. He caught it when reviewing his bill at checkout time. She was terminated immediately. Good riddance.