Restaurants rounding up: unethical or just easier?

• Just experienced this "issue" at Jimmy's Bistro in the Denver airport. I questioned this practice and the server said they had never noticed it, but on the way out of the restaurant I overheard the manager discussing the issue like I was wrong for even asking about it. Yeah it was 2 or 3 cents, but tell me before you try to get over, .48 + .50 still equals .98 .

• With the quality of Minnesota restaurants, why would one go out?

• A computer will do what you program it to do. Nice try at the "excuse". Charging you for more then what the price + tax is is wrong. It is just cents, but it is still wrong.

• Bottom line is they're intentionally overcharging customers --which is even more pathetic when you consider it's just for a few lousy cents. The restaurant shows cares more about money than customers --so where else are they cutting corners?

• Didn't they do this in Office Space? Sounds like a scam to me.

• Agreed, the penny is a relic of bygone times. No issue with rounding to the nearest nickel.

• Out of principle they should not charge a cent more than the advertised price plus applicable taxes. Round up on the menu not the bill.

• Doesn't smell right. If the rounding is done on the price on individual items, I am ok, but if it is done on the check total I am not. Here is why: If I have a $100 check, in St. Paul the tax on it will be $7.63. If this is rounded up another 2 cents (to a check total of $107.65) you just hiked up the "tax" which is being pocketed by the restaurateurs. 

• Pennies are no longer needed - hell a nickel or a dime is also worthless.  Round two cents down, round 3 cents up.  In the end it will work out.

• Another slant?  This is a result of sinking math scores in MN.  It's just too hard to do all that pesky adding and subtracting.

• While it's not going to break my bank, I don't think it's appropriate for any seller to round up the price of any service or product.  Why not round down if it's for ease?

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