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I track almost all of my expenditures. At a restaurant I used to visit fairly regularly I noticed that my costs were often off by approximately ±25 cents. This
by eadler 3y ago
I track almost all of my expenditures. At a restaurant I used to visit fairly regularly I noticed that my costs were often off by approximately ±25 cents. This was inconsistent and not always in one party's favour. Upon reporting and investigation it turned out that
(a) I routinely wrote 'math' along with a total instead of a tip and (b) one of the waiters only approximated the math required.
Nothing nefarious and I'm not even sure if I won or lost out of this - but it was interesting to catch.
- pdntspa 3y ago> I routinely wrote 'math' Why would you do this?
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- dboreham 3y ago1+ bottle wine?
- topherclay 3y agoI had to reread this because it didn't make sense to me the first time because it's so insane.
- ska 3y agoNot surprising, right? I don't know what you expected implicitly asking them to do the arithmetic for you, but I would've assumed not much care would be taken.
- PKop 3y agoCatch what? Why would you do something so silly
- JohnFen 3y ago> I routinely wrote 'math' along with a total instead of a tip I, too, am dying to know why you do this. I assume that you didn't intend it to be punitive, but that's what it looks like to me.
- gurchik 3y agoI've heard that half the time a restarant's POS is configured to ask the waiter to enter the number written on the tip line, but the other half of the time, it's configured for the them to enter what's written on the total line. Meaning, in the first case, writing "math" means more work for the waiter, and in the latter case, you better be careful the amount you wrote on the total line is accurate.
- lxgr 3y agoWriting both the tip and total adds redundancy which helps to avoid data entry mistakes.