This restaurant doesn’t accept tips (USA)
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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but has a 16% fee?
16% fee is the tips.
kazunori? that place is amazing. great hand rolls and excellent value considering the quality. the owner also owns matu, uovo, and sugarfish. they all work the same way with the 16% fee. i’m actually totally for it, all of his restaurants are well-run with great service and excellent food, so clearly that fee is doing some heavy lifting to keep the quality consistent and the prices down.
They force you to tip and call it a fee lol
How many more redditors will comment the same shit without even taking a second to read other comments.
Bro you paid a 16% tip whether you wanted to or not.
What’s the 16% fee
Charging a 16% service fee and claiming you’re a no tipping establishment is a pretty dick move, NGL. They’re just removing my right to not tip if I get a shitty service.
Yeah, because they charge an arbitrary 16% fee with no explanation! I would dispute the charge based on that alone.
No, they just mandate a 16% tip.
What’s with the 16% fee? That’s a no go for me.
That’s because they have a 16% tip built in. It may even change depending on the number of people served.
Should’ve just raised the prices of each item by 16% instead
“we are a *forced* tipping establishment”*
16% fee = tip
Reddit, you don’t get to bitch about tipping, and then bitch that people should be paid a livable wage, and then bitch when the restaurant needs money with which to pay that livable wage.
All the money that goes to the workers’ paychecks comes out of customers’ pockets. Nowhere else. It has to come from us.
Make up your minds.
It’s because they took it already! WTH is the 16% fee about?
No tipping? Great!
Raise your prices by 16% and do away with tips? Great!
Say you are a Non-Tipping Establishment and then charge me a 16% fee? I’ll definitely not be back and it’s possible I’ll go a bit Kevin with management.
They say as they charge you a 16% fee which is quite obviously a mandatory tip.
the 16% fee is the tip, no?
Then what’s that 16% fee?
Actually, they do. And they did it for you before you got the check.
Other have already comments on the 16% fee. My question: Is the State Tax just on the food, or are the food and fee both taxed?
Based on what you ordered, I’m assuming its an Asian restaurant. In which case, in most Asian cultures its considered offensive to offer a tip as they are expected to always be giving their best service. Tipping implies they did something better on this occasion and subsequently implies they’re usually not giving 100%.
Oh they do. See that fee? They just take it without asking.
Instead of increasing menu prices by 16-20%, they instead apply a partially hidden service fee on top of your meal.
So it’s still disingenuous and shady? Cool, won’t be eating there.
Looks like they just take them but they could get more if they didn’t just take 16%.
Looks like a 16% gratuity built in