re: Tip etiquette question: Do you base your tip amount on included taxes?

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Just tip less if you want to tip less. Making excuses like youre paying taxes twice is silly

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That’s BS


If you want to over tip, feel free.



I was a professional waiter in another lifetime and expected to get 20% for giving excellent service, before tax.



If your tipping on the governments tax you are overtipping and on top of that


You’re being a fool.

If it’s obviously poor service because the waiter doesn’t care


I’ll tip 15% before tax and not go back again

Also something to consider.


We would always up sell wine.


Weather it’s a $20 bottle of wine or a $200 bottle of wine.


Same amount of work for the waiter but 20% of $200 is better than 20% of $20

You arent upselling someone a $200 bottle of wine unless they go in there ready to drop that on wine already or somewhat close to it. You certainly arent getting a person to go from a $20 bottle(do these even exist in a somewhat respectable restaurant?) to a $200 bottle because of some sales tactic bullshite.

The amount of times you hit enter to go to a new line/thought is bothersome

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The tip at 20% on that one bottle is $44

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But the tip on the tax is only $4.

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You arent upselling someone a $200 bottle of wine unless they go in there ready to drop that on wine already or somewhat close to it.

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I never said that.


We regularly upsold $25 to $35 to $50

We also regularly sold $100 to $150 bottles of champagne


And that was 40 years ago.


I’ll repeat


Anybody insinuating someone is cheap by not tipping on tax is silly.


And you should try going to a nice restaurant for once in your life

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$54 lunch tip is $11

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$20 for me on this amount

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$185 dinner tip is $37

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$50ish on this amount

Bring on the hate

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Had a discussion at a working lunch today regarding tip etiquette. One co-worker stated he doesn't tip based on the overall cost of the meal because he isn't "paying taxes twice." He bases the tip amount, usually 20% according to him, on the subtotal on the check.

Another co-worker took offense to that and stated you should always tip based on the overall check amount.

Thoughts?

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So the correct answer is….



15% to 20% before taxes




If you wish to tip anything more than that


That is obviously ok and will make everybody happy.


I also believe in minimums.


If I sit at a table and order a bag of potato chips


I’m going to tip $5


This also comes into play with breakfast….if you’re not having brunch in a high end restaurant.


I will tip a much higher percentage because the breakfast food is inexpensive.

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tip on the total. Take 10% of the total bill x 2, then round up to whatever it takes to have my bill be $XX.00.

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This.

If bill is $50.00, move that decimal over to the left.
Multiply by 2.
$10 tip.