Do you know this from first had experience?
Because in my experience, the tipping options are customizable at the time you buy the device at the very least. And the salespeople ask you how you want it configured.
Yes, I do. Lots of places buy the units/software together, used, off a failed business. Making any change costs $, reprogramming them is, by design, too complicated. Places that purchase used systems can’t afford those changes. (Managers like to spin this as a way to ‘enhance’ staff wages. The staff see through it and so should you.)
If you want it to disappear, learn to just skip it, every time. You do it for all kinds of other, ‘…do you want to sign up for…offers’, you can do so with this too. That’s how you make it go away.
But consider not taking it as a personal attack on your wallet. And recognize that businesses make costs sayings, where possible, to get by in difficult times, and cut them some slack. If your choice is between 2nd hand units with ill fitting software, OR cutting staff/compromising quality, you might think it appropriate. Something to consider maybe?
A restaurant we occasionally visit used to have a credit card system that had no option for tipping, and you couldn’t add a tip to the credit card slip.
We knew that, so I made sure to have cash to tip. But I saw lots of people confused by the system and without cash.
Not quite a zombie thread, but not sure my question is ‘independently-threadworthy’ . . . And, I could use some help relatively quickly (couple of hours).
I’m on the road again and am staying at a swanky, high fallootin’ hotel from what I typically get booked in in downtown KC, MO. There’s no on-street parking, so they have valet parking. Valet parking costs about $25/night.
When the valet brings my car up from the garage, how much do I tip 'em? $5? $10?
Tripler
I am unaccustomed to such schwankiness in hotel esconcements.
I think a $5 would suffice.
$5, same as in town.
Cool! Thanks guys!
Trip
I concur