[BrandoElFollito]

Exactly. Only by selecting 0 this will put pressure to get rid of it

I saw this in two restaurants already and I am pissed

[londons_explore]

It won't though. A screen on the card terminal is free - if just 1% of people misclick the button and pay a tip, the company still wins.

[Wowfunhappy]

A restaurant is fundamentally selling an experience. These screens do not improve the experience. Therefore, they have some cost to the business. The question is whether the cost is recuperated.

[BrandoElFollito]

> A screen on the card terminal is free

... consulting companies developing the terminal entered the chat ...

(just kidding, I agree with you)

[direwolf20]

This is no pressure. You can exert pressure by saying that you are cancelling the transaction because of the tipping screen and you'll eat somewhere else.

[BrandoElFollito]

This is too late, at that stage you have already eaten. I am not sure if they appreciate if you give them the food back.

[bambax]

Yeah that's not possible. When you're presented with the terminal the food is already in your system.

Or maybe you can be like our former Ministry of Culture, Jack Lang, who just resigned from a prestigious, if useless, post in the wake of the Epstein scandal. It was revealed that he never paid for anything in his 60+ years of public "service", always leaving restaurants, hotels, etc. without footing the bill.

For you and me, this would be called stealing and would eventually land us in jail. But if you're a minister in France it's called "living like a prince" and being "a little stingy".