Tipping with a card: How much goes to the service provider?
(WorldNews Europe)

Say you go into a hair salon and want to pay your stylist a tip, but you don`t have any cash on hand. Instead, you use your credit card and pencil in a tip amount. Given the fees merchants have to pay for the ability to accept debit or credit card payments, perhaps you`ve asked yourself how much of the tip will actually make it to the stylist. Will the merchant take a cut of it in order to help pay those fees? Here`s the good news: By and large, the answer is no and all of that tip will make it to where it was intended to go - in the stylist`s pocket. But that`s based more on a new accord between employee/employer that`s taking hold in this new age of transparency. You`ll...