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Author Topic: I HATE getting stiffed!! (Tips that is!) Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-27-2008 12:29 PM                        Do not include the tips in the calculation. Base only on the amount pre-tip.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 03-27-2008 04:26 PM                     Pre-tax. Net amount times __% = tip. (I think that attempt at a formula is right)  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-27-2008 05:09 PM                  It's easiest for me to take the most significant digits of the total $ amount and divide by 10 then double it...(20%). If the waiter is *REALLY* hhot and friendly 50% or more! (Gosh! I'm sooooo shallow!) If the service is lousy, 1-10% of the total at the most. Sometimes less than a $1.00...if I don't plan to go back so as to avoid the spit and/or pee on my food thingie! That'll learn 'em!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-27-2008 06:01 PM                        A friend and I were in the Hooters at Fargo, ND last year. We had the nicest waitress, she was very pleasant (and good to look at, goes without saying). BUT, the kitchen screwed up our order. First they "forgot" to get it started, then when it did arrive, my fries were missing and my friend's sandwich was wrong. Well, my friend was a jerk to the waitress about the whole thing, being demeaning to her and all. I, on the other hand was as nice as I could be to her through the whole ordeal, because I knew it wasn't her fault and on top of it I felt sorry for her having to put up with my friend's jerk-ness. She said she would "comp" us a round of drinks because of the hassle. When the bill came, she had comped the round all right, but she had also comped MY entire meal and drinks! So needless to say she got a very nice tip from me.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-28-2008 01:12 AM                     Mike, You blew your chance.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-28-2008 08:36 AM                     He didn't say the tip was in cash!  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-28-2008 09:16 AM                     Touche.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-28-2008 09:24 AM                        Nah. She was about 20, and I'm 51 and therefore invisible to her. (Not that I wouldn't have wanted to!!)  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-29-2008 01:20 AM                        quote: He didn't say the tip was in cash! Her name was cash? Tip of what?  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-02-2008 12:10 PM                     Mike, at least you realize the girls aren't looking, I have a friend who's 60 and a little more homely than average and thinks the 20 something women are still looking.  |  IP: Logged

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