# Seinfelt Question: What Was The "Tip Calculator"Device? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400 "2014-01-09T22:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/21 "2014-01-10T22:31:18Z")
Seinfelt? Is that a combo of Seinfeld and heartfelt? As in nostalgia for the show? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/22 "2014-01-10T22:32:00Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Why would anyone try to calculate 12.4% in their head? Who calibrates their tipping that finely, and for what purpose? > > If you want to tip a bit more than 10%, but not as much as 15%, calculate 10% (which is, you know, easy), and add a few bucks. > > There are really only a couple of meaningful milestones in tips. > > No tip. You stiff the server completely, either because you’re a jerk or you forgot or the service was completely unacceptable. > A pittance. Same as above, only the pittance lets the server know you didn’t just forget. A real asshole move. If the service wasn’t worth complaining to the management about, you should leave a 10% tip even if the service was horrible. > 10%. Easy to calculate. You’re cheap, or the service was bare-bones. > 15%. Take 10%, halve it, and add that to the 10%. Decent tip. > 20%. Double 10%. Really good tip. The service was really good, or you’re having a good day, or a good life. > More than 20%. This is for when you want to feel like a big shot. For this you just tip however much you like, handing out Jacksons like it ain’t no thang. > > Any other level of tip can be interpolated from the above. But in none of these cases do you need a tip calculator to figure the exact amount down to the penny. Your server doesn’t add up your bill and divide by the tip to figure out the exact percentage tip they got, they just think: stiffed, cheap tip, decent tip, great tip, or thank you Mr. Sinatra! You’ve never seen Seinfeld before, have you? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/23 "2014-01-10T22:36:37Z")
Where’s Mr. Pink would you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/24 "2014-01-10T22:44:14Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Where’s Mr. Pink would you need him? …he avoided the shoot-out and got away with the diamonds. =d&r= ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/25 "2014-01-10T23:49:04Z")
Seinfelt was the spin-off show where all the characters were replaced with Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/26 "2014-01-12T00:58:35Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Seriously, how hard is it to calculate a tip? > > Knock of a decimal and you’ve got 10%. Double that and you’ve got 20%. Round up or round down as you like. I’ve never understood why this is so hard for people, it’s not like you have to do long division in your head. “20 percent? I’M ON A FIXED INCOME!” ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/27 "2014-01-12T13:52:32Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …he avoided the shoot-out and got away with the diamonds. > > =d&r= Actually, he didn’t. He was arrested outside the warehouse. You have to listen to the shouting in the background… ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/28 "2014-01-12T17:55:11Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > “20 percent? I’M ON A FIXED INCOME!” a VERY fixed income! ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400/29 "2014-01-12T21:06:17Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Seinfelt was the spin-off show where all the characters were replaced with Muppets. No, that’s [Seinfeld Babies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dFl4ay_uc). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seinfelt-question-what-was-the-tip-calculator-device/678400.md?page=1)