"Automatic Gratuity?!?!"

That is just wrong to begin with and has always irritated me...so if there are more than a certain number of us you automatically deserve a tip? No way Jose.

Good service gets you a tip...not you adding it to the bill.

I rarely eat out anymore...the food and drinks are usually extremely overpriced and the quality is poor. Dinner party at home is the way to go!

In East and Central Europe tipping is not normally a custom but since tourists unwittingly do it they have become used to it and get pissy if as resident you don't tip...greed is funny.