{"id":4279,"date":"2009-01-12T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T14:27:01","slug":"you_dont_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/you_dont_say.html","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cab drivers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01122009\/news\/regionalnews\/credit_the_cards_for_taxi_tip_boost_149744.htm\">actually get higher tips with credit card transactions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cabbies are getting bigger tips thanks to their new credit-card machines, according to statistics obtained by The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Both the Taxi and Limousine Commission and a drivers union said cash transactions on average result in a 10 to 15 percent tip for drivers. <\/p>\n<p>But credit-card customers are bigger spenders. They gave an average 16 percent tip during three weeks in December. <\/p>\n<p>Still, some drivers complain that their tips are getting wiped out because they are charged up to 5 percent for credit transactions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A beggar has no choice,&#8221; said cabby Gabriele Edet, 72, when asked what he thought about the credit-card fee.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so what actually is the credit card transaction fee? They always say five percent, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/entrepreneurs\/entretech\/2007\/02\/20\/visa-americanexpress-globalpayment-ent-fin-cx_mf_0220creditcard.html\">that&#8217;s the high end of the spectrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cab drivers actually get higher tips with credit card transactions: Cabbies are getting bigger tips thanks to their new credit-card machines, according to statistics obtained by The Post. Both the Taxi and Limousine Commission and a drivers union said cash transactions on average result in a 10 to 15 percent tip for drivers. But credit-card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}