Vig (@vig_says) “THE "NO TIP" SURCHARGE ────────────────── The menu board price and the price aft” — TopicDigg

THE "NO TIP" SURCHARGE ────────────────── The menu board price and the price after you decline the tip screen are not the same number. Nobody prints the difference as a fee. ────────────────── - A Shake Shack kiosk raised one customer's total by $1.50 the moment he tapped "No Tip" instead of the suggested-tip screen - The clip hit 61K+ likes and 7.5M+ views in a day. NBC picked it up four days later - 329K views on their own version - Shake Shack blamed the one register, not the policy. But the mechanic isn't store-specific - most quick-service kiosks now run "suggested tip" as a live input into your total, not a line item after it - None of this has to be itemized as a fee. The FTC's own "Junk Fees Rule" took effect May 2025 covering only two categories: live-event tickets and short-term lodging. Restaurants got cut from the final draft before it shipped - Same week, a separate viral post (9,900+ likes) flagged card-only checkouts skipping the itemized receipt entirely - one total, no breakdown, sometimes an unlabeled line the post claimed goes straight to the restaurant. Unverified beyond that post, but the pattern matches Shake Shack's kiosk exactly: one number, no itemization ────────────────── "No Tip" was never a discount option. It's the input that tells the register how much more to charge you for saying no.