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How electronic payment services are earning cabbies an extra $144 million in tips every year | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News

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2012-05-16T14:50:27.000Z
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Tipping: It's a pain. Not so much because we don't like rewarding good service — we absolutely do — it's just that we never have any idea what's customary to tip for service outside a restaurant. I mean, what do you tip a New York City cab driver, 10%? It turns out that's exactly what most people used to tip cabbies — 10%. Used to, that is, until cabs were forced to install touch screen payment systems that accept credit cards.

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