What's A Few Pennies?

There is this Greek place in the underground Path system by my work that I frequent on occasion even though their pricing really irritates me. I usually get the same thing every time I go there and every time I have to scrounge around for three pennies before heading down for some grub. The reason for this is that the food and drink I usually get comes to $10.03.

I don’t think this would be too much of an irritant if they were more diligent about giving back change. I for one never carry change around with me, at least not anything less than our lovely loonie so I usually pay with bills. I used to expect them to give me the correct change but instead they never do. Instead they shortchange themselves and just give me back change to the dollar amount, losing the three cents. In and of itself that would be great but the cashier always makes a point of the three cents.

If the three cents are such a big deal why does the cashier not give back the correct change to the penny? Since this is not done, I assume the extra three cents are not overly important to the business. If this is the case, why don’t they fix their price to an even $10.00? Are they not capable of doing the math backwards? Perhaps they just like irritating people. Rounding up to five or even ten cents would be less irritating then the three cents and the attitude the cashier gives because she is too lazy to count the change.