Okay, this past weekend at my Titanic dinner (I’m not going to describe it here because I plan on writing a review for Teemings), the next morning I had breakfast at the restaurant there, and the bill came to $5.20. (Not bad-I had scrambled eggs, toast with jelly and biscuits with sausage gravy!).
So I gave a tip of $2.50, because I figured that’s enough, right?
Or am I too cheap?
(I suck at figuring out percentages and stuff)
That’s a little less than 50% tip. Pretty darned generous. I believe most people usually give 10-20%.
I’ll say. That was almost a 50% tip. A dollar would have been about right.
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Quick tip guesstimator (20%, quite generous): Double the amount of the bill and divide by 10.
$5.20 x 2 = about $10, divide by 10 = $1.
Wanna tip 15%? Add on half to the bill and divide by 10.
$5.20 plus half (about $2.50) = about $7.50, divide by 10 = 75 cents.
(But for a meal, not matter how cheap, I wouldn’t leave less than a dollar unless the service was really abysmal.)
You shouldn’t go on percentages with meals that cheap. I’m sure she did more than $0.78 (15%) worth of work. In these situations, I think of how many trips she made to my table. Also, kids, when you have the waitress refilling your water glass all night, you should tip as if it were a real drink.
No, Guin, you weren’t cheap.
For a meal that cheap, I usually go with a minimum $3 tip. Unless they are abysmal, I figure just getting served means $3 minimum. If it’s superbusy and they are getting turnover that will add up, maybe do it by percentages, but otherwise I figure getting served at all deserves a minimum.
As a former waitress, on a bill that small, I would have been okay with a dollar. My general rule of thumb was, if 15% of the bill was less than a dollar, rounding up to a dollar was a thoughtful thing to do.
But, for the low cost of $2.50, you probably made someone really happy.
Very good tip. Breakfasts are usually very cheap. If I can’t afford to tip at least $2 for breakfast, I can’t afford going out for breakfast. I’ll usually leave $2, plus whatever small change is left.
Yeah, that was plenty. I would’ve left a dollar.
Even if you’re bad at fractions, you must have realized that your tip was nearly 50% (or at least been able to find a calculator between the diner and your keyboard). Just curious: why ask here for validation?