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Re:Why You Still Can’t Use a Chip Card Everywhere by Symbiote on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:31AM (#12157701)
The usual method for tipping with a Chip+PIN card at a restaurant in Europe is for the terminal, which the waiter hands to you, to display a message like "Add tip? Yes/No" or "Tip amount". You type the amount, press OK, then input your PIN.

This is what [1] terms "Table pay", but it also gives "Tip Allowance", which seem to be the system you've described.

At least in Britain, before Chip+PIN cards (12 years ago), paying by card in a restaurant was considered somewhat risky — waiters weren't trusted not to clone the card. Perhaps that's why customers were happy to use "Table pay".

[1] http://www.emv-connection.com/managing-card-based-tip-and-gr...

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Re:Why You Still Can’t Use a Chip Card Everywhere by wichert on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:52AM (#12158006)
The closest to that I have seen was a terminal in Alaska (or Canada, not sure) which had a option to add a percentage. Had to do a bit of mental math to figure out the right percentage to end up at a nice round number :)

I've certainly never seen an option like that in NL. The three common things I see here are 1) you say "make it amount X" before staff enters the amount in the terminal, 2) you leave some extra cash on the table after paying the normal amount with your card, 3) just don't tip (which is acceptable here since wages are decent enough).

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Re:Why You Still Can’t Use a Chip Card Everywhere by rtpg on Monday July 25, 2016 @07:11AM (#12157828)
Great opportunity to get rid of tipping altogether and just set a 15% service charge!
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Re:Why You Still Can’t Use a Chip Card Everywhere by wccrawford on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:02PM (#12175140)
Except that restaurants that have tried that have done rather poorly with it. Americans just aren't used to it, and until there's a larger campaign for it, it's not going to change. To be clear, this is a local restaurant and not a chain.
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