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> including effectively mandatory 20% tip -- and this was the lowest of the "suggested" options of 20%, 25% or 30% I moved to NYC just before you could pay by
by yodsanklai 9y ago
> including effectively mandatory 20% tip -- and this was the lowest of the "suggested" options of 20%, 25% or 30%
I moved to NYC just before you could pay by card in the cab. At the time, my friends told me to give $1 if the ride was less than $10, and $2 if it was less then $20 and so on. Most of the time, I think I effectively tipped between 10% and 20%. I kept with that habit after they introduced card payement with these insane suggested tips. How is it now? are you really expected to tip that much?
- epc 9y agoThe default tip on most machines is $0.00, but there's usually three buttons for 20%, 25% and 30% (or 20, 25 and custom). I personally tip 20% most of the time, 25% rarely. If I'm paying cash then typically $1-2.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI feel their use of not providing options between 0% and 20% is deliberate to guilt you into selecting 20% because they know you want to tip something.
- epc 9y agoI have absolutely nothing to back me on this other than gut instinct that the 20% is the base because that's what the IRS assumes for NYC metro area tippable wages. In reality the TLC probably organized a committee of accountants and medallion holders and spent a year discussing what the three options would be.