Alaskan restaurant's 100% tip option appalls vacationer: 'Huge middle finger'

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A vacationer in Alaska said he felt a local restaurant flipped him “a huge middle finger” when it suggested he tip as much as 100% after breakfast with friends.

The sneaky way businesses are scamming you into leaving a bigger tip — don’t fall for itA vacationer in Alaska said he felt a local restaurant flipped him “a huge middle finger” when it suggested he tip as much as 100% of his bill after breakfast with his buddies.

“It just felt like a huge middle finger. They know no one is going to tip that much,” Snowden told The Free Press. The tablet-style practice similar to the one Snowden experienced — which usually shows suggested tip rates while a customer is awkwardly face-to-face with a worker — has surged in popularity, appearing everywhere from cafes to sit-down dining establishments, nail salons andChicago resident Harrison Snowden felt like an Alaska restaurant flipped him “a huge middle finger” when it suggested that he tip as much as 100%.

Restaurant owner James Mallios of Amali on 60th Street and Calissa in Water Mill said that automatically adding a tip is “a European approach,” where tips are handed out less generously since wait staff is usually guaranteed an hourly wage and other worker protections that American restaurant workers are not.

A Forbes Advisor report recently revealed that nearly 75% of Americans said they leave excessively-high tips out of guilt, especially when faced with digital tip-prompting tablets or smart card readers.Take it from Starbucks customers, after the popular coffeehouse chain shifted to a digital tip system at checkout last fall, which one could argue was

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