Originally Posted by
JayhawkCO
Then this I wholeheartedly agree on. Like I expounded on elsewhere, if I had my choice, I'd never "grat" a table. Some people take offense; some have the audacity to say "if you wouldn't have put that on there, I would have left you more." That just seems outright rude on their part.
But mainly, I just generally get tipped more than 18% pretax. Why would I want to "force" a tip that's less than my average? That's like taking a voluntary pay cut.
Chris
Then why don't you ask management to do away with the auto gratuity? If you say nothing, they will take that as your tacit approval of the policy. While I have no way of knowing what your true feelings are, I would think that most servers like the insurance policy of a guaranteed 18% tip (which may cost them 2 - 7 % on average) over a non-guaranteed tip. Add me to the group that normally tips 20%+ but refuses to do so if an auto tip is included. If you really believe you would be better off without the auto tip, you should speak up. Perhaps not in your case, but the auto tip has to take away some of the motivation for some servers to provide good service.