That’s a little too close to reality for comfort. 😟

We have several governments saying that being able to read some people’s encrypted messages would catch some criminals, therefore we need to be able to read everyone’s encrypted messages.

I do agree with you in that it’s much better for the price to be the price and for tips to be entirely up to the customer.

That’s how it is in most UK restaurants in my experience but tips being added on already is creeping in. It used to be for large groups, then smaller groups and now a few places do it for everyone. Very annoying.

Great so assholes can get a 20% discount.

You’d be being an asshole if you were just doing it on principle but I have received bad service and asked for the tip to be removed. I didn’t feel like I was being a dick.

Doing this is different to increasing the price.

Firstly, from a PR point of view, it tells people that the extra money is going to the staff and not the restaurant.

More importantly, in the UK, we are legally able to object to a service charge placed on the bill and they have to remove it.