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Originally Posted by Montag
When I used to wait tables, we always had to go with the total they wrote in in case of a discrepancy. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I assume it's the same way in every restaurant until someone else can chime in with a different policy.
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I always used to take it in the spirit in which the tip was intended. If the bill was $30 and the tip was $5 but they wrote $53 as the total, I took $35 as the total. I never once had one come back to me.
For the OP, maybe the server made an honest mistake. Maybe the amount the restaurant put through to the credit card was wrong. I wouldn't complain if I got my money back, as I ended up in the correct position.
How does this happen anymore? Don't all cards have chips now and you enter the total on a terminal, usually portable? Do people actually write the tip and sign the paper anymore? I haven't seen one of these in a year or so.