August 4, 2011
Tipping
I know I post so much these days, but I just … bleh whatever. Read my twitter if you want “regular” updates.
But, I want to say something about tipping. I just read this article and I want to point out that while I think printing various percentages on the check is cool, computing a tip is not that hard assuming you understand second (maybe fourth) grade math.
Ok, to compute a tip, first you take your total (pretax if you wanna get picky, the server most likely isn’t paying tax on any tips that are on the post tax value, but that’s a different issue)… just pick one. So you have a total, divide that total by 10… this is really easy, you just move the decimal over by one. If your bill was $26.42 dividing by 10 gives you $2.64.
Now comes the “tricky” part.
If your service was great, leave that number twice (i.e. $2.64 x2 = $5.20ish).
If the service was reasonable, leave that number plus half that number ($2.64 + $1.30 = $4.00ish)
If the service was poor, just leave that number ($2.50 to $3ish).
If you really wanna know the percents were 20, 15 and 10%. However, if you actually leave 10% and tell me, I will probably SHUN you. I mean seriously… we’re talking the difference between $3 dollars and $5 dollars.
So yeah, if you can 1) divide things by 10 2) divide things in half and 3) add… you have no excuse for being confused about tipping… seriously guys, it’s not that hard.
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