Originally Posted by
mikesyr18
If you've ever ordered Pizza Hut, you'll notice the tip percentage is based on the cost of food, the tax, and then the delivery fee. So it looks like this:
$10 for a pizza.
$5 delivery fee
$1.20 in tax (yes they tax the delivery fee too)
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Total = 16.20, which they expect you to tip $3.24 to make it a 20% tip, when in reality, $2 is a 20% tip because you should only tip on the food cost, not the entire food cost, plus tax, plus the delivery charge.
Restaurant owners are greedy and cheap... That's the only way to summarize the point of this thread.
They might try to default to post tax based tipping but pre-tax is still the expected basis in the US.
(Speaking of which, I went somewhere recently that tried to default to 28%. Yeah, no.)