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Originally Posted by twinkle555
I dont understand why people think 15% is still the "minimum" now-a-days.Prices on everything have gone up, minimum wage has gone up,so why is the old-fashioned 15% minimum still standard? In any restaurant you'll notice the automatic grat is minimum 18%....but I digress.
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Here is what loses this argument. If the meal costs more "nowadays" than 15% is automatically going to be a higher dollar amount. Logic fail.
An interesting thing is happening as well with the advent of Groupon/LivingSocial. I went to a restaurant and used one, and they added an automatic 18% to the bill before the coupon. Apparently, they'd had problems with people using a $30 coupon on a $40 check and then tipping based on the $10 left to pay. The server did give me advanced notice of this policy, and I was perfectly fine with it. Too bad people are jerks and they had to have the policy in the first place.
I loved waitressing, and will probably end up doing it again in NYC to supplement the acting income after I'm done with school.
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