> why the fuck am I paying you a 15% service charge for me
Service charge is like not tipping, actually I kinda prefer this to having to look the cashier in the eye and choose which tip button.
Service charge is like not tipping, actually I kinda prefer this to having to look the cashier in the eye and choose which tip button.
The biggest issue is it is mandatory and its impersonal. If it's mandatory and impersonal, it's /not/ a tip, and it shouldn't be percentage based. If the business wants to raise prices, raise prices. Tacking on additional costs that are not correctly and appropriately represented in the price is basically fraud, and it's doubly uncouth because my understanding is that most businesses don't give this service charge to the workers, it's just treated as revenue.