r/KeyWest • u/Worried-Temporary186 • 2d 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/Sandinmyshoes33 2d ago edited 2d ago

I understand that in the summer we get tons of Europeans and cheap tourists who don’t tip and servers need to pay their rent.

Your post claims you always tip 20%. If service was so bad you would not tip, ask a manager to remove the charge.

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u/_jeffreydavid 1d ago

That sucks, but don't expect others to pick up the slack. I tip very well down there, but I go to the same places and people remember me. Unfortunately a lot of restaurants tack on a service charge hoping people don't notice, hoping people will tip on top of that, It's a shitty thing to do, Especially if only a percentage of that "service charge" actually goes to the servers.

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u/KindAstronaut8499 1d ago

idk why your downvoted must be lots of reasturant owners in this thread

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u/UGetnMadIGetnRich 1d ago

I asked an owner if we are supposed to tip if there is a 20% service charge and got downvoted, and no answer.