No, I like that as well. I used to tip like most other people, the percentage I gave was based on how I felt about the service and overall dining experience but about 3 months ago I have changed the way I tip and it has made my dining experience so much better.

I am a flat tipper now. However I don't like pulling out a calculator and giving a set percentage. I want to go out and eat, not solve a math problem at the end.

So what I do basically is eyeball it. I start at 20% and truncate the amount to a full dollar amount and give that. 20% is too much to give as a flat tip so truncating to the full dollar amount basically makes my tip always in the 15-18% range.

So say I go have a burger and a couple of beers, pre tax total (Always tip on pre tax amount of course, never tip including tax) comes out to 17 dollars. To be exact I look at the change as well so lets just say 17.25, to get 20% you just take 10% and double it so 1.72, doubled is 3.44. However I won't leave that as a tip because I have always tipped in full dollar amounts because leaving change just seems silly. Truncate, write 3.00 on the tip line of the recept, and call it a day. Even if it comes to like 3.70 or 3.80 I still truncate and put down 3.00 because rounding up would give more than a 20% tip and me personally I see no reason to ever tip more than 20%.

No more analyzing every little detail of my food and service and subtracting or adding percentage points to come up with some dumb number to represent my exact level of satisfaction. I just pay my tip, consider it a service charge, and move on. Same method for both good and bad service.

Because I tip the same every time I wouldn't mind if a 15 or 18% tip were already included, would just save me the effort calculating it in my head and instead I could just cross out the tip line, and pay my bill.