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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the *way* we tip actually makes no sense at all.  We're not tipping based on the amount of work (or service) provided, but on the cost of service.  Your $150 a cut hairdresser is not working hard to do your hair than your $50 a cut hairdresser, but if you go by % you are tipping a lot more.  Ditto for servers--it always annoyed me when I was one.  If I have a table full of people drinking water and iced tea, and I have to run back and forth a zillion times for refills vs a table of full of same# of people who order one cocktail a piece and never ask for anything else, guess who is more work?  Guess whose bill is much higher, and then the corresponding tip?  It's stupid.  
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I agree with this and I usually correct for it and overtip if I’m not drinking or just have an appetizer. [/quote]

Same (because I actually PREFER water, so that's what I drink). I tip as if that water was a glass of red.

Conversely, it is just as easy to do service for a $40 bottle of wine / 4 ppl as it is to do service for a $200 bottle / 4 ppl.  So, on the rare occasions we splurge on the single bottle for the table, Server Susan isn't getting 28% of the $200. Sorry not sorry.

-- waited tables for 8 yrs in college / law school[/quote]
Great, but did you skip math in law school? High school? Susan has to tip out food runner (even if you don't eat), busser and bartender based on the $200 bottle of wine. Susan just worked for free of possible paid others to work on your table based on the % she needs to tip out. Why didn't you get a $150-$170 wine an leave space for tip. The s_it tastes the same.
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Susan shares a percentage of the TIPS she earns with the food runner, etc, not a percentage of food/drink sales — if her employer is doing it right. The revenue sharing within a business is entirely the decision of the employer and not the IRS

Susan should discuss this with her employer or find a restaurant that apportions tips more intelligently within the business, if Susan dislikes the situation you cite[/quote]

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