HOW do you guys tip in the US? Do you go by food total or bill total? I know it’s frowned upon in other countries, I’m not here to question or debate that.
No matter how you split it, pre or post tax, the “gratuity” is much higher than it should be! The 18%is higher even than what actual 20% should be!
Pretax should be $14.26, tax included (ripoff) should be $15.44. So why is the “20%” up to $18.25?! That’s a 25.5% tip.
For me, I tip “15%” but round numbers. The bill is $72, so I take 10% (7.20 but round up to 8 then add 4) which ends up $12.
If they were exceptional, I just go off 20% which is $16 by my method, and round the total to the nearest dollar… but even that isn’t their pretend 18%!! And technically my method is over 20% after rounding up. They’re all just taking advantage of niceness and guilt for patrons having to tip everyone.
Edit: I fucked up being hung up on numbers, not realizing to the left was the explanation. 😅 OK, so just: how do y’all tip?
So, the reason the math is off, is because they calculated the percentages before discounts.
See that free appetizer on there? It was part of your total when they did the math. Which seems less shady when you remember the tip goes to your server, who did the same amount of work, no matter how much of a discount you received.
OK that makes a bit more sense. How did I miss that on the left of the suggested amounts? 😅
This assumes the restaurant let’s servers keep their tips.
You be surprised how many restaurants fuck over servers and take their tips.
Source?
I work in the industry. It definitely might happen in places but no it doesn’t.
You wouldn’t keep your servers and bartenders they genuinely wouldn’t make enough to work there or even the gas to get to work.
You’d essentially blacklist yourself. Once other restaurants find out they’ll pilfer your people and many owners go to other restaurants with the thought in the back of their head of pilfering workers. It’s not the intent but all it takes is “hey how do you enjoy it here? I own ____ come check it out sometime we’d love to have someone like you” happens all the time.
Your biggest risk is that it’s also illegal as fuck and very very easy to prove.
Majority of places do not fuck with server’s tips.
I am sure it happens but it is illegal for restaurant owners or managers to take even a portion of servers’ tips.
I probably would be. But I don’t understand the reasoning behind “There’s a slight chance that someone might steal this money, so I probably shouldn’t even try to give it to them.”
Should we stop paying out pensions because retirees are often targeted by phone scammers?