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[–] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I expressed my displeasure of these tickets at a bar I work at to one of my coworkers. They then pointed out that in Toast POS you can just punch in the total bill and it generates the tip for you

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oh that's good to know, I used to do math and then realized I'm probably being an asshole and stopped.

    MATH RETURNS BABY!

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I'm good at math except after more than one drink. Ngl, I really like it when the bill has a list of percentages and totals to preview. I'd like it even more if we just charged what food and labor cost and got rid of this nonsense though.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Move the decimal one place left and double it for 20%. Do it for the sub total if you prefer not to tip on tax.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Been doing this for years. I evangelize it all the time, and people still don't understand, or they try to make it more complicated than it is. But it's literally THIS easy, so easy. It's not even math at this point, especially if you only double the dollar amount and ignore the change, a kindergartener could do it.

    Yet people refuse to learn a "new weird way".

    You don't have to understand it, just do it. This is literally the easiest way. I will die on this hill.

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    FYI, most places will just use the total if there's anything wrong with your math (assuming it's at least what you owe) so this is perfectly valid.

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (27 children)

    US tip culture is so weird. I’m talking about the comments as much as the pic

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    [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Lol, that's fucking hilarious.

    I asked a friend who was a server what they did if the math was incorrect. He said that they used the total amount.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    I'll never understand, how it can be, that I don't get a final receipt

    Like, usually, I'm saying, I'm tipping (insert whatever), then in the US I'll hand over my card and need to trust them to put in the amount I intended to

    I have no way of directly verifying

    And everyone was angry at my just for asking and the poor barkeeper cried....as she didn't understand, that it wasn't about her...

    Felt like an ass, just questioning the system

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I have (intentionally) left a large tip when I'm hanging out somewhere for a long time with a low ticket value. The credit card company flags it and asks me via text to confirm that the tip is correct.

    I don't know if it's strictly based on % or on deviations from your usual pattern.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago*

    Make each digit of the tip a number that adds up to 9 with the subtotal except for the last digit. First is 7, last digit needs to add up to a value of 10

    42.17

    07.83

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Idk why people don't just give whole number tips. It's so much easier to just add $5 to something

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Because it's easier to have a flat 50 out then 47.15.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Didn't realize my grandfather was alive and we're still balancing checkbooks by hand

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

    $7.83

    My method:

    • 42.17 + 8.00 = 50.17
    • 8 - 1 = 7
    • 0.17 - 0.02 = 0.15
    • 0.85 + 0.15 = 1.00
    • 0.85 - 0.02 = 0.83
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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I've done this my whole life. "Math" drawn cutesy if I have time. I can art, not math.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Well, the Roman numeral M is 1000, so this is a pretty good tip. Not sure about the rest, but hey I'll take.

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