What is the $2.00 charge if not what the tip used to be? What do you tip Chinese food delivery where the driver sure has to do a lot more than this room service waiter?

Then you are changed another 15-18% service charge on top...supposedly the same amount as a normal tip for conventional in-restaurant sit down service when a staff of waiters serve you throughout the entire meal?

The whole thing is excessive, but I guess it's just part of the package. I wonder what would happen if, when you ordered a $200 bottle of champagne with your meal, racking up a $300 total dinner bill, onto which 18% is automatically added, you tried to manually reduce the tip to something commensurate with the effort? Say $10 or $20 instead of $60, since all the guy did was bring up a table and pop the cork? I guess they would allow it, but you'd feel like a chump.

If you want to save a few bucks, you can invariably call the restaurant and order your meal "to go" and then have them call you when it's ready, go down and pick it up, and bring it back to your room, complete with plastic plates, utensils, etc.

That would save you $2.00 plus the tip, so on a $40 meal, it's almost $10.