tipping

yes but WHICH WAY, is what my brain thinks when it's drunk

10% is really easy but 15% would take me a while if drunk.

Bill is $153.57, 10% is $15.36 OMG FEAR MY MATH SKILLZ

wait half that is $7.68 add them together = $23 tip HOLY SHIT, A GENIUS

xp: hahaha okay lex, I do actually have some sympathy for that but really, if your tip ends up being larger than the bill it's a good bet that you've done it wrong

lex, louis is your only rival in the ability to blithely make posts that make yourself look bad

yes but WHICH WAY, is what my brain thinks when it's drunk

― lex pretend, Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:27 PM (2 minutes ago)

hahahaah lex i wanna go out with you and convince you to tip six hundred dollars on a $60 bill

if 60 was 960

huh

lex, louis is your only rival in the ability to blithely make posts that make yourself look bad

― resistance is feudal (WmC), Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

... some people aren't good at math, it's not really that weird

I'm not just talking about this thread.

oh. i love lex. that's all.

tipping hundreds of dollars on a bill that only goes into the tens is kind of hilarious, I sort of wish that would happen more often

I think I accidentally lost a $100 bill (tucked between two ones) last year in SF when I put down a tip at Mel's Diner.

That's not nearly as good as "well, the bill is $20, so the tip should be $300"

Nice of you to say...it felt really stupid at the time, plus I was sober.

I'm MORONIC at math and I can move a decimal. I might have to pause and ask people to stop talking to me for 5 seconds, but it's perfectly do-able.

i just about always tip 20%, makes the math easier. plus i tend not to spend more than $20-$50 at a restaurant anyways so it's not like it's all that much more money

Bill is $153.57, 10% is $15.36 OMG FEAR MY MATH SKILLZ

Yow, Hi Dere eats out at some ritzy places.

ANother thing is that my eating habits are pretty routine. If I drink and eat $27.45 worth of beer and pizza at a particular restaurant, it's probably going to be close to that number when I eat there again. So just remember what you paid last time.

(I do often eat at places that are too expensive, but I also tend to go out in groups of 4-5 so it sometimes balances out.)

Wait I thought that it was universally accepted that 20% on restaurant meals is the current standard? Lots of ppl are still doing 15%? Really?

oh god I just waded into a tipping thread--wtf is wrong with me?

15% vs 20% is one of the regular fights I have with my wife

i always do 20

unless the waiter vomits in my lap

You have to pay extra for vomit.

right, if there's vomit involved i do at least 30

i like 17.5%

^^^^ this def starts wandering into "fuck it, too much work" territory

17.5 seems a little low for vomit

tbh i usually just do a little math + eyeball it

it's a tip not an AP test

I aim for the high side of 15-20% that is compatible with the denominations of bills I have in my wallet. I try to avoid tipping on the card at all costs but it will be 20% if I do that.

I wonder if ppl would do better or worse on AP tests if they had a tipping component

20 percent is so easily to calculate and as someone upthread already said the difference between 15-17 etc is not that great

17.5 is much harder to calculate

I normally aim for 20 but I round up/down based on good/bad service

places I go frequently I'll tip heavier

17.5 has a definite method (move decimal, divide by half, divide by half again, add them all together) but fuck that last division and adding 3 numbers when you've had all of the beers.

17.5 is so hard, i mean you have to figure out 15 and figure out 20 and then figure out what's roughly in the middle, who has that kind of time.

well except for that if you've already done 15 or 20, GUESS WHAT YOU ARE DONE AND CAN LEAVE

i mean, it was kind of a joke

TIPPING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS

also i always carry a pen with me so multiplication on the run for me is like no big deal

I would like to know a) where you are living and b) how many people you are feeding with groceries that cost less than $60.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:01 (Yesterday)

Near Boston, food's expensive in my neighborhood (there are buses to cheaper places, but that really makes shopping trips longer and less convenient), and I have four roommates. We share groceries, but I do something like half the shopping for the five of us and spend $50-60 a week. As long as you don't mind vegetarian meals involving lots of pasta, beans, and rice, and just shell out on some fruits and vegetables, it's quite possible.

17.5 is actually kind of difficult, why not just be satisfied with any number slightly closer to 20 than 15? Not like the difference between 17 and 18 is going to be subject to serious analysis from the server.

(ps beer & wine are not included in the $50-60, but this is ma and you can't sell those in grocery stores ANYWAY.)

Britisher sales tax was 17.5% for many years; unlike in the US places I've been it's already included in the prices you see in the shops, so you never had to work out out for real, but "add tax at 17.5% to this" was a standard part of the teacher-reads-out-questions don't-show-workings maths tests that were part of our exams at 16, and even when sober it was kind of annoying to have 45 seconds to work it out without writing stuff down.

These US-dominated tipping threads make me nervous. Like, I think 10-15% is acceptable UK-side and 20% would be reserved for the best meal of your life, but maybe I'm just really mean and restaurant staff hate me?

Tipping is 20 per cent in America because of various employment practices and systems of business taxation. Servers are paid a very low 'basic' to prove they're in the building for those hours and then they are taxed at 8pc of their table takings. So you give them 20pc of the bill.

British restaurants OTOH have been inching up 'service' percentages for years (nicer places obv) but it has nothing to do with the mechanics of staff taxes as in the US. Your 10-15pc is actually spot on, stop worrying.

http://jesustips.org

Our Tip Tract is not an alternative to giving money or an excuse for Christians to be miserly.

In fact, it's printed on an envelope that is just the right size to hold dollar bills, and we encourage you to be generous with what you put inside! The point here is that, in addition to giving money, we can leave something that is of much more value - a list of simple tips that point a person to true salvation in Jesus Christ.

Leaving money without any reference to Jesus is a wasted opportunity. But leaving a tract without any money is just plain stingy.

much amusing tipping blah here http://www.anglotopia.net/british-identity/humor/15-way-to-not-look-and-act-like-an-idiot-american-in-britain/

is it ok to tip with a $1 coin in a bar?

yes except in philadelphia and parts of the northwest

i just put it in the register and put a paper dollar in my jar. my boss doesn't bitch at me about it. yet.

in new orleans of course one can get drinks to go. this leads to all the neighborhood heroin dealers stopping by to get long island iced teas in 16oz go cups, which cost $6 at my bar. i've managed to shame a couple of them into tipping--mostly by pointing out the huge wad of cash they pull out and give me exact change from--but others are resistant. i figure this costs me $10 per shift. that's two packs of cigarettes. my coworker just charges them $7 and pockets the extra buck but she is a cute girl and i am not. the point of all this is that it's really fucking annoying. also: old men who tip a dollar every like five drinks and make a big show of it. fuck them too.