[SkyDancer]

My complaint with some restaurants is when they kite up the tip. I had one place put a one in front of the tip increasing it ten-fold and then had the gall to tell me it was the credit card company that did it. I got a copy of the receipt where they put that “1” in front of the tip. I got the full refund of the meal after I had a lawyer friend call them up.

[jttpwalsh]

one place put a one in front of the tip

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I used to audit restaurant receipts for a large company, in every incident, it was the server who did the misdeed. No establishment wants to get on the credit card companies radar screen for fraud - they will get bounced out of the program.

It never failed to amaze me, how many servers lost gigs with great tip income, in order to pad their earnings by a few bucks.

[Rodamala]

My complaint with some restaurants is when they kite up the tip...

That is precisely why I always put the currency symbol right next to (preceeding) the amount... even if they have the symbol preprinted on the slip, I ignore it and add my own, crowding the first digit.

[Jamestown1630]

You know, there’s a good way around this............

-JT

[duckln]

How did they manage the total amount that included the tip?