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The price on the menu isn’t anywhere near the bill the expect you to pay at the end.
Bill = menu-price + taxes + 20% tip
(where 20% is just a rough average)
These days I've seen people trying to push 30% to 40% as the minimum tip. Either that or they sneak it in with service charges or gratuity fees with a suggestion of a 25% tip on top.
I’ve seen that, too, and it’s INCREDIBLY sleazy.
It’s been sleazy for a while, the automatically calculated tips almost always calculate the tip on the total including tax. Wtf…we’re expected to tip the government now, too?
When I notice this I recalculate and don’t return
Fuck that, those people are psychos. It's not going to catch on.
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Unfortunately it's catching on, and if you read half the comments here you will find people backing it up because the poor workers won't be paid any other way almost as if restaurant workers weren't paid another way in the past.
Well I'm still gonna tip 20% and if they think that's not high enough then they can cry about it cause next time I'll tip them 15%.
If they want 25% then they'd better give fucking exceptional service, and I don't just mean being polite yet insincere and using all the tired robotic phrases that they're programmed to do in OJT. I know "cookie-cutter waiter response" when I hear one.
If they want higher than 25% then they can fucking blow me...
I'm still pinned at 15% although I mainly stay out of the country somewhere where tipping is what it used to be aka totally optional and highly appreciated. Tipping everywhere even 5% would be very strange behavior here.