Tipping Etiquette on Wine with Dinner
I get so confused here.....if we have wine with dinner do we tip on the entire check amount or just the food or just what the hay do we do?For simplicity, let's say the dinner portion of the meal...
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Yea in Florida we pay tax on prepared foods even for takeaway. Only unprepared foods are untaxed. There are some fine lines there that seem to be open to interpretation by different establishments.
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I usually go to restaurants where the service is good. I just pay 20% tip on the total bill, I don't bother subtracting the tax..to much math especially after a glass or two of wine. If the food is...
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Of course tax varies from state to state, but here in OK where the tax is nearly 9%, to figure the tip I just double the tax. Soooo much easier than trying to do math in my head (math? Without a...
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9% whoa! That's a lot! Good way to calculate tip, though...
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That's the NYC approach as well, where our local tax comes to slightly over 8%. We double the tax for usual service, add or substract as the service warrants.
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I'm with ya on just doubling that tax....I have a girlfriend that when we travel together, she gets all bent out of shape with me. "How the hell do you work in accounting and not be able to figure a...
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6% in Florida. Guess we'd have to at least triple it!I always figure 20% is so easy. Anyone can figure 10% by just looking at the amount and moving a decimal. So how hard is it to double that?
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Thanks Patrick, Yes, I was wondering why we don't pay tax on the whole amount.Usually I times the tax by 4 and round the total price to the nearest dollar, at this restaurant I have to double it,...
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Patrick, you obviously do what I do. It is so easy to look at the total bill, know what 10% is and double it. That is the amount of the tip. I think the tax here is 7.50 not sure, not worth bothering...
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Lol, sorry, the 5% is the food tax, the tip is three times the tax and maybe ++
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OK Mimi, that makes sense. God bless areas that have a tax rate percentage where one can figure the tip based on the tax. Anything to keep it simple.
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So let's assume the total bill is $78.63 including the tax of 5.11. Subtract the 3 from the 6 which is 3. Double it and add it to the first figure for the tax which is 5. Now you have 11. Add the...
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to me your'formulais much more difficutl for one bad in math.
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of course, the original question here was about tipping with regard to wine....
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Tipping for wine is easy if you can tolerate the whining for tipping.
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Forget the whining for tipping AND tipping for wine.Let's just all tip the wine and be done with it!
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