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The bill for my coffee was $2.61, so I gave the guy who slid it across the counter to me a $5 bill. My change was $2.39.
PATERNITY WARD D. L. Stewart
To Tip Or Not To Tip? That Is The Question
ThenIhadtomakeade- cision.
Should I tip him? It’s not as if he had to create a cap- puccino — macchiato-frap- puccino — frappe-latte with pumpkin sprinkles for me. It was just a plain old black coffee out of an urn.
Perhaps there are no hard and fast answers and tip- ping merely is a question of choice. On BuzzFeed, for instance, servers cited ex- amples of their experiences with celebrity tippers:
waived.
When the server, who had
seemed a bit high.
Fifteen percent might be
thumb is “the higher the bill, the higher the percentage,” but that seems to be giving a middle finger to servers at casual restaurants. Carrying a tray of $10 hamburgers to the table is every bit as much work as carrying a tray of $50 lobster tails.
hours of service.
• Actor Ryan Gosling add-
The standard rule of thumb is
‘the higher the bill, the higher the percentage,’ but that seems to be giving a middle finger to servers at casual restaurants. Carrying a tray of $10 hamburgers to the table is every bit as much work as carrying a tray of $50 lobster tails.
a suitable compromise, but
ed $45 to a $55 check.
• And a very prominent politician got the restau- rant to open after hours for hispartyof12andranupa $1,300 tab, which the owner
I’ d have
vert one of the dollar bills he had just returned to me into more change and then figure out how much 15% of $2.61 was. I could use my cell- phone’s calculator app for that, but by the time I figured out how to use it he’d proba- bly be gone on his break and my coffee would be cold.
to have
him con-
AndifIdotiphim,how much? Should I just leave the coins? Thirty-nine cents would be measly. Per- haps even insulting. But a buck would be 38%, which
up? And what about super- market cashiers who bag my cartful of groceries?)
restaurants include tipping “suggestions” on their bills, showing options of 10%, 15% or 20%. But lately I’ ve noticed, some of them show 15%, 20% or 25%.
to work overtime to wait on them, cleared the table she discovered under one of the plates — a neatly folded $20 bill.
(And if I tip the coffee per- son for sliding a paper cup across the counter, shouldn’t I also tip the person who slides the pizza across the counter to me when I pick it
PACIFIC LEGAL
PLAN
47 Years Experience
Ala Moana
Tipping always has raised tough questions like those for me.
• Actor Jack Black tipped $100 for a $20 check.
So, maybe tipping is a matter of how you want to feel about yourself and you should let your conscience be your guide.
To make it easier, many
The standard rule of
• Singer/actor Jennifer Lopez tipped zero after three
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