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That is because cashiers can get written up when they're draw is over. What are they expected to do with your change if they can't put it in the drawer and they would also get in trouble if they were seen pocketing a customer's change?
Use it to make "neat" change? Give customers too much change back? That could also get them in trouble.
Just take your change and move along, you're really not doing the cashier any favors by leaving behind a few cents.
I don't look at the cash register's screen when I give back the change. If something costs $11.53 and they give me a $20, I -still- have to count the change - I mean - the register doesn't hand me the right amount of money. So I just count it out loud, UP instead of DOWN.
So - pennies and singles on the right, quarters and 20's on the left. Just like this:
"Fifty-three - fifty-four, fifty-five, sixty-five, seventy-five, twelve. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and five is twenty."
And hand them first the change in their palm, then hold the bills out for them to take between their fingers.
How much does that change come to, total? Who cares. All that matters is, it adds up correctly to 20.
And if they say - after I've already opened the register, "oh wait - I have the three pennies!" I can say - no problem. "Fifty - seventy-five, twelve. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and five is twenty." Because it's SO easy to subtract 3 cents from 53 cents and know that it equals 50 - which is 2 quarters.
I took my family to an independent breakfast place like a Denny's. It's a place where you pay at the cashier at the front.
The bill came out to $59.30. 20% tip is $11.86, but I usually round it up to the next whole dollar amount because I hate coin change. so $71.16 total becomes $72.
The restaurant is a bit hectic and there are people waiting. So I ask the cashier "can you take a hundred", and he says "sure." I hand him the $100 and say "just give me back $28 dollars." He says "man your going to make me do math?"...
You were speaking to an idiot. It is more common these days, now that we employ our idiots as cashiers instead of having them turn a bolt on an assembly line. Sorry for speaking the blunt truth but there you go.
Yes, you were unreasonable and you asked the cashier to perform a duty that is outside his responsibility. It's your job to leave a tip, not the cashier's.
Furthermore, the cash register records every transaction and at the end of the shift must balance. You're setting the cashier up for possible accusations of theft because you were too lazy to walk the tip back to the table.
I would just pay, get the change and leave the tip on the table. The cashier may or may not have been able to do the math but that is beside the point. Doing change manually is very simple...if you can count you can do change manually. If you hand me a $100.00 bill and the total came to $59.30 you just count up in coins to $60.00 then in bills to $100.00. Very simple. Figuring out 20%, 15% or whatever percentage is also just as easy.
However you are asking him to leave the tip out, put it aside then give it to the waiter/waitress. Where should he keep that cash?...in an envelope marked for that table? What if a lot of tables made the same request? Do you know if he has envelopes for keeping tips separate? It's not just the math you are asking him to do which should not be a problem but you are asking him to hold the tip for your waitstaff. If the restaurant got very busy it could easily get lost or he could forget to give it to the right person. You even said that the restaurant could get "hectic". Money could get lost in the confusion.
You are making it more complicated than merely figuring out math. It's a step up from a fast food place....just leave the tip on the table yourself.
This. Well said. Any other reply here about how the cashier wasn't too bright makes those posters sound unintelligent themselves, or too lazy to consider the full picture. So much easier to say "kids these days - so stoopid!", right? In what pay-at-the-cashier restaurant do you ever leave the tip for the server with the cashier? Think things through, people.
He said in the OP that he was out to breakfast with his entire family. My family has six people. A breakfast bill, even at a mom and pop, cash only place, would be AT LEAST $60.
I would let him do the extra step. There are people out there who purposefully try to confuse cashiers in order to scam money. Some business owners will train their employees to always go by what's on the register.
Exactly,
he's just trying to do his job and you were trying to rush him
not everybody is good at math.
A lot of times I could tell you the total off the top of my math... can everybody do that? no
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