California man reveals the shocking amount he was asked to leave at San Diego bar Catalina Lounge

A California man has revealed nan shocking magnitude he was asked to time off arsenic a extremity while paying his measure astatine a dive barroom successful San Diego.

In a posting to X, complete pinch photographic evidence, nan barroom drinker showed really upon paying his $24.50 tab, he was presented pinch a 100% extremity option, which would person doubled his full to $49.

The ruse to lure unwitting, and perchance inebriated patrons into paying much aft racking up a drinking tab appears to beryllium deliberate.

Other options connected nan mobile costs instrumentality see an extortionate 50% extremity which would person added $12.25 to nan man's total, together pinch much mean 25% and 20% options. 

The man, who posted connected X nether nan name Gordon Kling, named nan barroom successful mobility as Catalina Lounge successful Ocean Beach. 

The photograph appeared to resonate pinch followers who believed nan barroom was deliberately trying to scam its ain customers.  

'There is nary measurement personification hasn't accidentally tipped 100% reasoning that "oh that's conscionable nan total, that's nan 1 I want". That's deliberately misleading,' added Matt Breen.

'Haha that’s precisely why I took a photo…,' Kling responded. 'I was drunk af and thought I was seeing things. I took nan photograph to revisit successful nan greeting and was successful full disbelief.' 

Other users chimed successful suggesting nan venue was attempting to prey connected group being somewhat worse for deterioration and not realizing they were tipping truthful much.

'That’s hilarious. Catalina lounge is simply a dive, too. All these bars successful PB and OB believe connected drunk guys connected dates,' explained 1 user. 

'Not moreover nan bars successful Pacific Beach are this bad. The MAX I’ve seen successful PB is 35% (I deliberation astatine Mavericks). Not moreover connected day lmao. I was conscionable retired pinch nan boys playing pool,' Kling explained. 

'When I saw this pic I instantly thought of Catalina earlier moreover reference what you said. When I saw it location for nan first clip I was successful disbelief. Imagine really galore drunk group deed 100%,' wrote Bianca successful consequence to nan post.

Another X personification believed nan barroom was relying connected customers misreading nan options.

'Actually that’s clever astatine a barroom - gives servers an inducement to summation income b/c nan much drunk nan patron gets nan much that 100 will look for illustration 10%.'

'It should not beryllium up to nan customer to supply livable wages to employees. Tipping civilization is toxic,' added another. 

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Catalina Lounge for comment.

Guilt-tipping, paying a extremity retired of awkwardness aliases unit erstwhile you would alternatively not, is connected nan rise. 

This outpouring it was revealed really Americans are spending an mean $453 much a twelvemonth connected gratuities than they would for illustration to acknowledgment to 'guilt-tipping.'

Consumers opportunity they person paid an mean of $37.80 a period connected reluctant tips because they would consciousness blameworthy astir not doing so, according to caller research. 

A caller canvass by Talker Research recovered that complete a 4th of nan 2,000 surveyed said they are 'always aliases often forced to tip more than they would like.'

Typically, nan mean responsive had tipped much than wanted to six times successful nan past period alone.

Another caller study recovered that three-quarters of Americans judge tipping civilization has gone excessively far. 

The findings travel amidst a wide backlash against 'tipflation' which has seen tipping civilization spill retired from bars and restaurants and into stores, takeout chains and moreover self-service machines.

84 percent of respondents to nan CouponBirds study based on that the minimum costs should beryllium accrued to off-set nan request for gratuity.

Across nan board, tipping was astir communal for edifice service. Some 59 percent of consumers said they would extremity astatine meal while 43.8 percent they would for nutrient delivery.

It was followed by hairdressing and beauty services - which 41.1 percent of individuals said they would extremity for.

Some 39.6 percent said they would adhd gratuity successful a taxi while 36.8 percent said they would extremity astatine a bar.

The slightest apt spot shoppers would extremity was astatine a convenience shop aliases Bodega. Some 4.9 percent of study respondents said they would adhd gratuity successful this instance.