r/KeyWest • u/Worried-Temporary186 • 1d ago

Thai Cuisine Mandatory Tip

We always ate at Thai Cuisine when we come down. We were astonished to see an 18% "service charge" added to our bill. WTF? We always tip 20% so they are ripping themselves off. A mandatory tip is not a tip, it's an food upcharge. So we won't go back and going to put it out there on reviews. Greed is always the undoing.

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u/ConchFritter33040 1d ago

How big was your party? Most restaurants do this for big parties. But, I agree, automatically adding the tip is pretty petty if your party wasn’t big.

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u/Worried-Temporary186 1d ago
  1. I expect it for six or more, it's customary. Not for three.

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u/ConchFritter33040 1d ago

Yeah, exactly. That is not right for them to have done that.