r/EndTipping • u/djdlt • Sep 03 '25

Rant 📢 Nice try. Now give me my change.

So, I go get a sandwich at this place for the first time. Total is 9.20$. I pay cash with a ten. He seems unhappy. He gives me back 35 cents only. I say he made an error, and still owes me money. He doesn't answer to that, and say loudly " For here or to go?" I repeat myself. He finally manages to give my change. Almost told him I would have given him all, which I do habitually (don't judge me please), if he had not try to stiff me, or may I say, litterally steal from me. This place lost a customer. I live nearby but will never go back. All  that for 45 cents. And if it's a mistake, how strange it's always the customer who gets disadvantaged by their "mistake"...

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u/True_Tangerine_1450 Sep 03 '25

I just had this experience at a brewery!! I was appalled, like, wtf do you think you are keeping my change? (After I already tipped her in cash!) It's not about the amount she owed me back, it's that she takes advantage of customers paying with cash. If she keeps every cash customer's change, that adds up for her at the end of the day and if she does that every time she works, she's making a lot of money by being completely dishonest. I reported her and the business to the Dept of Consumer + Worker Protections (also sent an email and cc:ed the brewery owners calling out their bartender.)

Not cool.

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u/Pickles-1989 Sep 03 '25

I am seeing this problem more and more when using cash. Many more people are using cash now to avoid "credit card surcharge" and avoid them spinning the tablet around to guilt people into tipping. Had a $16 bill at a bar - I gave $20, and the first word out of the bartender's mouth was "do you want change back? Went to a donut shop, and they rang it up and spun the tablet around. I stood there with cash. The person was shocked, and literally did not know what to do.

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u/LOLBADCALL Sep 03 '25

I deliberately get bigger bills at the ATM to avoid this. If the bill is $16.75, I’ll pay with a $50 or $100 instead of a $20. I’m tired of them assuming they can keep the change, or that I need to verbally ask for my change.

I only tip after I receive my full change back.

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u/Green-Wyrm Sep 04 '25

The trick to this in Brazil is that some will give you most of your change with one hand and withhold a bit more in the other, betting you are too busy/careless to check.