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related to tipping - at restaurants do you check the math on your tabs?

Posted by JenBro Apr 6 '10, 09:55

my dad always did ... and then he'd add the tip to calculate out to the nearest dollar for his total. I always thought it was a bit odd - but now - years later - I find myself doing the same thing - whole dollars only on restaurant charges.

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What is amusing to me (and I do this too) is in a largely credit and debit card world, the benefits of this have largely evaporated. - TFox Apr 6, 09:59
As much as I hate tipping, I'm embarrassed by friends who break out the cell phone calculator for a precise % - Hotkiss Apr 6, 09:59 19
- double the tax here is 18%. figure out something like that. -- nm - workmanda Apr 6, 10:04
- Seriously, move the decimal to get 10% and add half or double it - SyrDragon Apr 6, 10:03 6
  - when HST goes live here, the taxes will be 12% ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:03 2
    - You weren't paying PST on restaurant service already? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Apr 6, 10:06 1
      - nope, it was exempt. For the last few years, we've only been paying 5% GST ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:06
  - But the final amount MUST come out to a round number! -- nm - ML with a slide rule Apr 6, 10:03 1
    - truncate, ceiling or floor it then. -- nm - SyrDragon Apr 6, 10:09
  - this. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 6, 10:03
- "There's an app for that" ... but I don't have it on my phone. That's right, I have an iPhone without a tip calculator. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:02 6
  - who needs a special calculator for tips? who needs a *calculator* for tips? double or triple tax and round up or down. -- nm - workmanda Apr 6, 10:05 5
    - i tip on the whole bill, not the tax - the 40 year old virgin Apr 6, 10:06 2
      - naw, people just do it differently. Our servers love us -- nm - CQ Apr 6, 10:07
      - Some people use the tax percentage as a quick shortcut for percentage calculation. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:07
    - makes it easy to check the math when filling in the blanks on the CC receipt -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:06
    - I mean, Jeebus. -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 10:06
- it's better to check the math than screw up. -- nm - Andie Apr 6, 10:02 2
  - indeed. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 10:03 1
    - i never do that, but i have no problem with people who want to. -- nm - Andie Apr 6, 10:04
- Do you eat out with girls? You know how girls and math are. -- nm - TFox Apr 6, 10:01
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- I don't. I just I'd give a $5 tip on that bill. -- nm - CQ Apr 6, 10:00 1
  - yup -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 6, 10:01
- is it time for Wapner, Rain Man? -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 6, 09:59 3
  - I am stealing this phrase for a particularly detailed friend of mine ... this is going to make me giggle right up until I can use it on him - thanks! -- nm - JenBro Apr 6, 10:03 2
    - he's not *actually* autistic, is he? -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 6, 10:04 1
      - no no ... gosh no ... I would never be cruel like that ... he's just fussy -- nm - JenBro Apr 6, 10:05
- Yeah -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 6, 09:58
- yup. -- nm - znufrii Apr 6, 09:58
i don't get nearly so precise - the 40 year old virgin Apr 6, 09:57
I like it when my bills are whole dollar amounts, so I try to do that in my head ... -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 09:57

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