Re: Waitress gives herself tip on my Credit card
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to the people claiming this is extremely common:
you're getting robbed
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Actually it's the other way around. Restaurants and bars do this so that they don't get robbed. I don't know the exact reason restaurants do it, but I worked at a bar for 3 years and we did this regularly in $20 increments. We would start a tab with a person's credit card. If we didn't preauth. the cards, they could start a tab, drink all night long, walk out on their tab, and the bar would be responsible for covering the money.
After the preauthorization clears your card is charged the normal amount.
Cappy
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