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Tipping in USA

Woolwich_Kim · 2013-10-14 00:12:40

Hi, I'll be off to San Francisco in less than 2 weeks and I am up booking my transfer. It's only after I had booked my transfer voucher that I read the driver expects tip and some reviews I've read weren't so good (supershuttle) :( I have been to the US before some 13/14 years ago but don't remember too much. As a general…

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ferf1223 Posts: 8,936 Forumite

6 November 2013 at 3:00PM

claire16c wrote: »

- there is no need to tip including the tax cost. Americans don't include the tax when calculating it

I do and always have, because I'm lazy and just look at the bottom line. I agree that technically it's the pre-tax total that the tip would normally be based on...but again, lazy.

I also agree that tipping 15% for poor service isn't the best idea...if the food is bad but the service is good I would not penalize the server though.

Does remembering a time that a certain degree of personal responsibility was more or less standard means that I am officially old?
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