"I don’t like to be forced to pay without the knowledge."
Restaurant bills don’t look the way they used to.
Not so long ago, you’d glance at the bill and see the cost of your meal and a blank line to leave a tip.
Restaurants in some touristy neighborhoods like Miami Beach might slap on a tip of their own for large parties or try and sneak an automatic tip past you, but in general, there weren’t too many deviations.
Now, tips are often factored in before you can decide what to pay.
Mysterious service charges appear that are never adequately explained. And as the use of cash dwindles, restaurants are more often charging diners a fee for paying with a credit card.
Often the credit card fee is so small it’s barely noticeable — around 3 percent is the usual charge, which means for a $20.98 bill, you pay a whopping 74 cents.
But even though the restaurant is not passing on the full cost of the credit card service charges, customers are noticing.
And some are getting frustrated.
Read more at the Miami Herald