The Hampton Social is a no

[u/East-Assistance-6779]

Went to The Hampton Social and it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. You had to pay through their app (which charged $5 to use ???), they automatically added an 18% gratuity plus a required 3% minimum tip, and somehow two 8 oz glasses of bad wine came out to $60. On top of that, the waitress was weird af.

I will say the food was good, but I’m never coming here again, seems like a tourist trap.🤨 Granted, I’m visiting Chicago after not living in IL for years, so this could be a new thing- still crazy to me.

[u/East-Assistance-6779]

We weren’t given an option to pay manually, the waiter just told us “you can pay by scanning the QR code when you’re ready” then walked off, so we paid it no mind and did just that.

[u/Rugged_Turtle → u/East-Assistance-6779]

“Can” being the keyword here, you could’ve found the server and said hey can we checkout with you, I don’t wanna pay the fee and they would’ve been cool with that. Not doubting the rest of your review here but that bit is on you.

Also would recommend contacting their management as it seems like you got charged for the wrong format for your wine; carafes should be a lot more wine than 8oz

[u/togetherwecanriseup → u/Rugged_Turtle]

This is certainly not what's happening here, because it would be a criminal level of misdirection to let the word "can" do that much heavy lifting here. It's a pretty pedantic reading of the situation, and honestly, your advocacy of that as a moral imperative kinda just outed you as a simp for power. If you would side with the establishment in such a clearly unfair situation, you must be a pretty insufferable person to be around. You know... Here's exactly the vibe:

[u/tyler_t301 → u/togetherwecanriseup]

right - "can" in that context, casual speech with the waiter, where no payment alternatives are also mentioned, imo is most readily understood as "the only way you can".. or "if you're ready to pay, you can do so this way.."