• exasperation@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

    There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

    • MonkeyTown@midwest.social
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      21 hours ago

      Your experience/statistic there is very different from my experience. It definitely depends where you are and how high-end the place is.

      Place I work now, most tips are cash, by a substantial margin. Even when paying with card about half of our customers tip cash, and most transactions at this place are cash anyway. Places I worked previously were like a 50/50 split if people paid more often with cash or card, and again about a quarter of people paying card still tip cash.

      Maybe because this is a low cost of living area, and everyone knows moving claims cash tips, maybe because it’s all small town stuff, idk.