How do restaurants charge your card for the tip if they already ran your card and gave it back to you before giving you the receipt you wrote the tip on?

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How do restaurants charge your card for the tip if they already ran your card and gave it back to you before giving you the receipt you wrote the tip on?

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The transaction doesn’t post immediately. The server runs the card to obtain an authorization, and then later goes back and enters the tip amount.

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