Originally Posted by thegeneral

Actual restaurants make coupons like that???

Yes, the Restaurant.com coupon folks started allowing it when many restaurants bailed as a result of customers undercutting the tip on the server.

What gets me too is when the restaurant charges tax on the pre-coupon total. In other words they charge tax on the amount that they did not charge the customer on the bill. That is against my state's sales tax laws.

Seems to me that this sort of "error" (assuming the owner isn't doing it to cheat as you know that they probably aren't paying that collected tax to the state/city) and the tracking of waitperson's tip income could be handled with proper software on the cash register side. Doesn't such a thing exist? Probably does as my company (grocer) can handle it that way.