Electronic payment machines - on which customers must pick an amount to tip on a big screen in front of a server - guilted Americans into paying larger and larger gratuities.But now they are fighting back after the use of the screens - with options often starting at 18 percent and rising to as high as 35 percent - caused average tips to inflate.Average on-premise restaurant tips rose above 20 percent for the first time in 2020 and hovered above that level throughout the pandemic, peaking at almost 20.5 percent as 'tipflation' persisted.
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