"Dog3" <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in message
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> "Gregory Morrow" >
> ink.net:
>
> >
> > A man from the New York City area was arrested Sunday night after his
> > party of nine failed to leave an 18 percent tip, the restaurant's
> > mandatory gratuity for parties of six or more people, which had been
> > added to his bill.
>
> This is the policy in many restaurants here. I've never seen anyone bitch
> about it.
>

But call it a service charge or something like that - a tip or gratutity is,
by definition, voluntary.

I don't care for the practice although I realize it is common for larger
groups. You are forced to reward poor service (when that happens) and, to
the extent that the waiter knows he will get a nice tip no matter what, his
motivation can only be reduced.


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Peter Aitken

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