How do you tip?

For everyone bitching about being broke college kids. If you're broke, don't go out for food where you get served. Either get take away, eat somewhere cheaper, or learn to cook your own goddamned food.

I've heard there's a practice in some countries of leaving a poor waitress/waiter an overly large tip as a sign of, "You're going to be needing that extra cash soon..."

I generally tip around 18% or so, though it does go up a lot with some meals. There's one place I go to where my school's students can get a cheeseburger, fries, and unlimited refills on soda for $2.25. I'll usually go with a friend or two, and the tip is generally at around 100% since the meal's so absurdly cheap and the guy there knows us. I actually took my parents there because they have really good normal food, too. While we were leaving my dad wound up talking to the one of the managers or the owner or something and found out my dad was :jew:. Turns out the guy used to live in Israel and when we went back there the next week they gave us a free appetizer and 25% off of our bill.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Why not just buy more food?

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the cost of your meal would double because it'd need to include the cost of paying the servers.

Shouldn't the cost of the meal go up more like 15-20%?

I mean, I'm no math whiz, but I don't see how you losing a 20% tip on the cost of a meal and moving the weight to your employer would suddenly cause the price of the food to go up 100%.

How ya doing, buddy?

There's also some rad restaurants where you get huge portions and it's really tasty. There's this one place near me I like to go to since you get dinner for $10, they've got a fantastic salad bar (two soups, lots of fresh fruit, and tons of other stuff) that I like to fill up on quite a bit, then I can only eat about half of my meal. I save the rest as a snack for later at night (If I'm going to be in the office) or as a quick lunch the following day.

Also, there are definitely some foods which get better as leftovers. I remember my girlfriend and I went to Applebees one time and she didn't finish her burger because it was kinda mediocre. The following day we reheated it and it tasted a million times better since all of the flavors had melded together a bit.

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