Rob Dew The tip calculator on some of these machines is actually overcharging people. So it’ll put 20% and then the number of how much it is, but that’s actually more than the percent.
Adam Ha!
Rob Dew And so they’re gypping people.
Adam It’s like it was made by some service-worker employees: “These people are so dumb, I’m going to get everybody to use this tip calculator so you can split the tip or make the tip.” And then it’s actually giving the server more.
Rob Dew And they’re even showing it — the guy is showing it, and it says 20%, and he’s like, $15, and it should have been like $6 or $7 for the tip at 20%. So my tip of the day is, one: don’t use the percentage. You can always put in your own amount. And if you don’t know — so if it’s a restaurant, you obviously want to do…
Adam Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Hold on. Yeah. So on the checkout machines…
Rob Dew This checkout machine, it was overcharging them, which I think is crazy. Yes, that’s what this guy was showing.
Adam Oh. Oh, so it’s not on your phone. It’s actually the checkout machines. It always says 15, 20, 25…
Rob Dew 25, yeah.
Adam And 20 is always selected — pre-selected for your convenience. And it’s actually more than 20%.
Rob Dew It was more than 20%.
Adam Holy moly.
Rob Dew It was $15.
Adam Wow.
Rob Dew Yeah, so that’s where it’s getting crazy.
Adam Oh, man, that sucks.
Rob Dew And here’s a good rule of thumb: take the number two and multiply that times the first number in your bill. Say your bill was $70…
Adam Basic math, people. But okay. Thank you, Ducifer.
Rob Dew Multiply times two: $14. There you go. Boom. There’s your tip.
Adam There’s your tip.
Rob Dew But the tip is: don’t use the automatic percentage thing, because it could be scamming you. Put your own amount. I put my own amount in and then type it in.
Adam Wow. And this clip talks about this.
Rob Dew Yeah. The first part, they’re kind of showing it — I might have cut out some of that, because you can’t really hear what’s going on — but then I have the guy talking about it. The guy’s showing the machine: it says 20%, but 15-something-something, and he’s like, it should be like six or seven.
Adam Oh, wow.
Clip I guess this is just why you never trust these electronic machines. Because if you do the math on this, this tip that it’s recommending is actually about a 32% tip, not 20%, which is pretty wild. Now, I know what people are going to say. They’re going to say that these machines calculate the tip off of the pre-discount amount, so likely this person had to have had a coupon or some kind of discount applied. Well, that’s just not the case. I was able to get a comment from the creator right here — she is the person who went to the restaurant. She said they had no discount, no coupon. This was just the calculation. So if that’s the case, this is not only a scam, but fraud. But this just shows you: everywhere you go, never trust this math.
Adam It’s a gyp tip is what it is.
Rob Dew A gyp tip. That’s good. I like that.
