Sometimes when I eat out in London, some restaurants have already added 12.5%- 13.5% service charge on top of the bill. For example, if food items are around £80 , service charge will be at least 12.5% which is £10 on top of the bill, which makes the total bill £90 already. I find it very hard to add an additional 10% (£9) for tips when the service charge is already quite high. Last time when I went out, I was thinking, that would have topped the bill to £99 if I add additional tips on top of service charge. (like £10+£9 = £19 for service in this case, amounts to 23.75% of the bill )
U.S. standard tips 15% , buffet 10%. Many restaurants use an app that suggests at least 18%. 20% and 25% on the printout with the caliation of what the % translates to the tip amount. some wait staffs hold a machine in their hands and watch you enter the tip. Talk about pressure when they are looking at the machine to see how much you enter. Some restaurant' software inadvertently or on purpose included the sales tax as the base amount of the meal thereby include the tips. Sales tax is not subject to tax. This is cheating.
Normally 10% service charges in HK. I went to a Chinese restaurant in ToKwaWan, their service charges needed 13% but the food n service were not satisfactory.
美國好好笑，你話太咸，佢會問besides too salty everything ok? If you said 1 more, the waiter would say besides this and that, everything ok? This continues until you say ok😂
