Chifa Taypa Cusco — Restaurant in Distrito de Cusco

Do not pay with a card if you decide to eat here.

My wife and I ate here last night and I actually commented that the English speaking waiter seemed to be making a joke about us with the other staff.

No complaints about the food and when we left we paid with MasterCard, leaving a tip in cash.

After checking her bank statement tonight it was showing 20% had been added to the charge after we left.

After much denial from the staff when confronted, our bank informed us that the 20% had been requested by the restaurant using the tip function after we left. Luckily we spoke to our bank who will deny the extra charges.

Hard to believe this could be an accident.

Update 10/02/2021

So management just replied 18 months later to our review to say we are lieing. We have no need to lie and our bank can't "accidently" add 20% to our bill. If we were lieing we would have said the food was no good and not to go at all. But we were honest about our experience and just advising people to eat there if you want but pay cash.

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