This might be the wrong forum... but I thought it might be a good place to ask. How come tips that I leave on the receipt NEVER get charged? Are places not allowed to process credit card tips.. or what?
From what I remember from my serving days, the only time that we wouldn't enter the tips was when we lost the slip and so couldn't prove it.
Umm, your wait staff is super rich and only waits tables for fun? Even if the restaurant has a policy, they can't deny the charge. All they can do is charge the CC fees back to the wait staff...
Are you sure your "NEVER" get charged? For example restaurants have the "tip" section on the slip, and now most have the "% calculation" done for you. What you generally see is that the "card is swiped, and the check amount is entered (i.e $25.00), then the "slip" is brought to your table for "tip amount and signing". So, if you go home and check your on-line statement, you will generally see an authoriztion for the dinner amount and $1. The tip is always charged when the transaction clears the institution. If you are NEVER being charged, then something is wrong; either you are not entering the tip on the "merchant copy", or you are not checking the charge after full processing (and are getting charged).
Tips, if any, are added on to the cost of the meal after you receive the bill for the meal. Line # 1 on the bill is the cost of the meal Line # 2 on the bill is the amount of the tip that you have to complete. If the service was lousy, or left the tip in cash on your table, you leave line # 2 blank. Line # 3 - completed by you is the amount from line # 1. Cashier runs the information through the credit card terminal, prints out two sales slips. You sign one - which the cashier keeps, and hands you the second slip.
