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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 236076" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Thanks for letting me know. I think the gratuity is added because that is the major portion of the server's wages. some people, like you, would calculate the tip on the total bill, and would tip according to service performed.</p><p></p><p>Sadly, many people will calculate the tip based on the $2 they paid for the gift certificate and the $10 or so over. This means the server does the work for a $35 or $40 dollar meal and gets the tip for a $10 dollar meal. It has a BIG impact on the server, because servers are charged income tax on 18&#37; of the total of the tickets for their tables, regardless of how much they actually earn in tips.</p><p></p><p>Restaurants find it hard to keep good servers if they consistently are shorted on tips because of gift certificates.</p><p></p><p>It is also one reason that many restaurants automatically add a tip to any group over 8 people. Often with groups people assume that someone else gave enough of a tip to cover the entire bill. Then the servers end up actually LOSING money because they earn so little and are taxed on the totall of the bill. Servers can end up PAYING to serve a meal to a group or someone with a gift certificate, no matter how good the service is.</p><p></p><p>If you have really bad service, say something to the manager. If you can give concrete examples of bad service, the manager can take the automatic tip off in many cases.</p><p></p><p>Can you tell I have working in restaurants quite a bit?? LOL!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 236076, member: 1233"] Thanks for letting me know. I think the gratuity is added because that is the major portion of the server's wages. some people, like you, would calculate the tip on the total bill, and would tip according to service performed. Sadly, many people will calculate the tip based on the $2 they paid for the gift certificate and the $10 or so over. This means the server does the work for a $35 or $40 dollar meal and gets the tip for a $10 dollar meal. It has a BIG impact on the server, because servers are charged income tax on 18% of the total of the tickets for their tables, regardless of how much they actually earn in tips. Restaurants find it hard to keep good servers if they consistently are shorted on tips because of gift certificates. It is also one reason that many restaurants automatically add a tip to any group over 8 people. Often with groups people assume that someone else gave enough of a tip to cover the entire bill. Then the servers end up actually LOSING money because they earn so little and are taxed on the totall of the bill. Servers can end up PAYING to serve a meal to a group or someone with a gift certificate, no matter how good the service is. If you have really bad service, say something to the manager. If you can give concrete examples of bad service, the manager can take the automatic tip off in many cases. Can you tell I have working in restaurants quite a bit?? LOL! [/QUOTE]
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