Originally Posted by
JBord
Agreed. I was responding specifically to those posts were rounding their total charge to the dollar. For instance, your bill is 33.21. 20% is ~$6.60. A lot of people will round that up to $7. But some people, including me, will occasionally round that to $6.89 to make their total charge $40.00.
It would be an interesting stat to see how many people in this situation would tip 6.60 and how many $6 or $7.
Then actually, your total bill will be $40.10 and you are still not rounding to the dollar
I have seen many servers when faced with a bill in the lower quarter of the next dollar, give over change instead of giving coins. For example, my bill came to $35.20 and I gave a $50 bill. The server gave me back $15.00 instead of $14.80 with one $5 bill and 10 $1 bills. (S)he is hoping that you will give more than $5.00 in tip. Also I have had servers short change me the same way if the bill is in the upper half of the even dollar. These servers get less than the norm as I will usually deduct a full dollar or more from the tip. I like to collect coins, see previous post, and sometimes will take the loose change and just leave full dollar amounts which usually exceed the normal percentage.