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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

I looked up The Habit and shockingly there is one relatively close to me, maybe 20 minutes away.

The burgers look great on the website, are they good?

On the charge, that's pretty douchey of them. I wouldn't go so far as to cancel the cc but I would have called the restaurant and expressed dissatisfaction. And I'm one who tips in the 20% to 100% range. Being nice about it, you could have gotten an apology and a free meal, you already got charged for the education so might as well take a burger and don't come back. Or ask the cashier to ring it up without the tip. It always pays to be nice.

I'm super curious if the charge was actually automatic or if it was the person that "rang up" the charge figuring "I'll do this 20x per day, and 19 of them will never notice.

Before I cancelled the charge, I'd have called and/or gone into the restaurant to talk to the manager. You did eat the food, so cancelling the charge is kind of messed up, especially if it was the employee doing something that they shouldn't have. (I give it a 50/50 on that).

Either way, I'd go back and say "I'll pay for the food, but I'm not paying your automatically added tip" (If that was something that I was worried about).