A Bar In The South Is Going Viral For Showing Their Laundry List Of Left-Open Tabs And Automatically Charging Them A 20% Gratuity
So I saw this going viral on Twitter this morning and I immediately ran to my AI blogging server to see what it would spit out. Let me start by saying that this has a comical amount of replies from Twitter lawyers stating that she just committed over 200 cases of fraud. I'm no bar owner or drinking expert, but has this not always been common practice? Of course bars are going to have a small sign posted probably right above the cash register that you can barely see without 20/20 vision.
Tipping culture has gotten out of hand in this country of course, but can you really apply this as an example? You rarely learn anything on this blog mixed in between a bunch of boring Greenie and Big T blogs. So let's take a trip to Google lawyers to get an answer:
Wait, you mean to tell me that all the Twitter replies were wrong? Say it ain't so. My simpleton brain figures this is always allowed because if we're talking legalities, aren't you committing a crime by not paying your tab in the first place and walking out before you fully do so?
The only thing left to do was get an official comment from our resident bar owner and hospitality expert Dante. I usually only give him 4 minutes to reply because I'm a pageviews hog and want to get things up as quickly as possible, but he beat the clock this time:
There you have it. Close your tabs if you don't want to pay 20% folks. Or stay inside.