Tipping with Credit card in restaurants?

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Recently I ate out in an expensive restaurant owned by a friend of mine. The waiter brought me the slip AFTER they charged the amount. I added a tip and total. After a day, there were 2 charges to my account, one amount which was before the tip was added which was blocked for over a week, and another amount which was the total with the tip plus an extra $10 . I contacted the owner as they are a friend and after a week the blocked amount was cleared. I am just going to forget about the extra $10 they charged. Is this standard procedure, that when you add a tip AFTER they run the amount through, they block the initial amount and charge you the TOTAL amount. I would really appreciate anyone who has a similar experience enlightening me on pros and cons of CC tipping!
 
Often times they already include the "tips" with CC payments. Just learn to always carry around tip money if you feel obligated to tip.
 
if the server made an input error and just "deleted" the payment versus "adjusting" the total (regardless of whether or not the tip was added yet) and reprinting the credit card slips makes a big difference. If you used a bank card and the payment was deleted then it will show up twice in your pending transactions. A straight up credit card will have the time to be fixed before you get your statement. And when paying with a bank card you will have the pending amount show up without the tip (because the actual transaction for payment must go though first) because the tips are adjusted at the end of the night or the next day, so that will show up differently on a pending transaction from a posted one. And lastly, If you give cash and a credit card and split it, the server will almost always (unless the guest notes otherwise) put the cash towards the payment in full and put the rest on the card so that the totals will still come out split with the least amount of hassle to the server. And tips are always added after a transaction unless it is included and the computer will do it for you or if you note a certain amount. Hope this helps.
 
sounds like the server made several mistakes. The double charge, and the $10. Server most likely got confused and ran card twice, and got confused again when selletling the tips at the end of the night, and added another $10. It may have been a glitch with the computer POS system as well. usually credit card tips are ok, but like anything else mistakes are possoble, and locked up money is frustrating
 
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