On computer hand-held check devices brought to the table, I’m noticing that the ‘default’ is rarely the standard tipping range. It usually starts higher, and you must swipe down to find the standard default. Always makes me feel guilty, which I’m sure is part of the plan.
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I’m noticing the screens seem to be including lower options around here. For a while it was 20, 25, 30%. I’ve see 18 and even 15% recently. I wonder if more people are pushing back.
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Had drinks/dinner a bar/restaurant last week. Noticed that the bill automatically had a 4% admin charge added for the back office staff (or something like that). So, to calculate the tip for our waitress, I took the original bill amount (without the admin charge, without the taxes) and tipped about 20%. I usually round up to a nice round figure. But really? I am sure most people don’t look at the bill and don’t want to do the math, so they just pick the default 20% option.
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I don’t get it. Raise the prices of the dishes a dollar and call it a day.
it’s like tolls - I don’t get them either. Raise the gas tax 5 cents and call it a day.
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I’m actually ok with tolls, the folks who use the highways pay, the folks who don’t, don’t pay. I say this as someone who’s EZPass balance reload is around $150. At least a lot of the toll booths have been removed.
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I don’t use any of the default options for tipping if there’s nothing for 15%. I will do “custom” and choose the amount I prefer. m
I always tip the wheelchair pushers and cart people who get us between gates—@$5 apiece.
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But the people using the highways are paying for new roads throughout the state - roads that everyone uses and should be paying for IMO.
Did we already discuss this? Do you tip housekeeping in a hotel room? If so, how much do you leave?
My company covers $2 a day - so I do that - and we don’t really do hotels but Fairfields, Courtyards, Hamptons, etc. It seems about right - I’m low maintenance and so are the rooms.
More importantly, those working in housekeeping probably don’t make a ton. If everyone left a buck…
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we usually don’t have housekeeping, especially since covid. if needed, we get extra towels. we leave $5 for housekeeping when we check out, generally.
And then, there are people like this bartender. From the article, it appears some customers may not have paid close attention to their bills.
Had this happen at lunch a few weeks ago - split the check with a friend and since my meal was a little bit more, I told her I would cover the tip for both. She x’d out the tip line on her slip and when she got her credit card bill - it didn’t match her copy of the receipt - -$9 higher! I had tipped 20% of the total bill.
I never compare my receipt to my cc bill - she is a retired CFO and remembers numbers. She called the restaurant and the manager apologized and gave her a $40 gift card saying it was too hard to credit her back the $9.
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We had lunch and a drink at an out-of-town establishment. Food and drink were pre-paid with the order at the bar, and food delivered to the table, so we tipped upfront. This seems to be more common, although it then does not give the option of a higher (or lower) tip due to service.
Credit card billing for this lunch was higher than our receipt - and not due to an illegible number. However, by that time, we were gone, and not worth contesting via the credit card company.
We usually check our card statements for higher-priced or unknown items, but rarely for dining out unless very expensive. We just happened to remember this time, and still had the receipt, which we usually do not keep. I’ll probably be saving more of them now.
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