Monday, January 5, 2009

Pennies


This may be a trifle (well, it is a trifle) but I have noticed some restaurants, usually the type that specialize in making their customers feel inferior, keep the pennies (and nickels and dimes and quarters) and round up to the nearest dollar.

They never seem to round down.

And that annoys me.

Asking for the change seems like begging, but taking the difference off the tip seems wrong also.

Granted this isn't as important as most issues but it does frustrate me!

11 comments:

  1. Not an important legal issue, but a very interesting one you do raise. Restaurants are funny eddies of the law of contract, it seems sometimes, where rulings don't exist to describe simple things like the legal status of a menu, or what happens to the pennies.

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  2. What's not funny is what is not on the menu, but what has been passed under the tables or left behind, brown paper bags stuffed with stolen taxpayer dollars.

    Liberals are and always will be liars, cheats and thieves.

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  3. Well, if rounding is going to work, it should be up and down (below $.50=down and above $.50=up)

    Not sure why they are even doing it here in Canada. The only time I have seen it done was in Agrentina during the late 80's when there was an acutal shortage of coin. They used the quideline I mentioned above.

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  4. I'm with you.. it's presumptuous of them to do so.

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