re: Many Americans are fed up with gratuity??

If you go out to eat you should know that whatever you order and whatever you estimate your bill to be that when you figure your tax, you double the tax and add that to the bill at the least. Its not a hard concept.

Double the tax is my baseline. Standard service that's my tip, better than average I give more, if its very good service I give more. Service has to be real shitty for me to give less than that. I can only recall once.. well maybe twice where I left less. That's just how it is here. If you don't like it then you don't have to go out to eat at a restaurant. I know in other countries they don't tip and the servers are paid well enough to not need to be tipped, but that's how its done here.

There are a lot of other things financially I am fed up with that gratuity doesn't even make the list. Home insurance increasing, medical care, the fact that I can't buy a decent baseball cap for less than $30.. It just bothers me knowing it probably cost them less than $5 a hat and anywhere you look, a hat is over $30 because people will pay anything for whatever so a lot of people are willing to pay that much so that's the going rate. shite like that are things that people can have control over, but are willing to overpay for some bullshite but then bitch about a tip.