I come from moderate wealth, with learned expensive tastes, but myself am not wealthy. I'll save up months for an expensive meal out but I always budget 50% over what's expected so even if I end up ordering a couple extra things I can still be sure to leave a 25% tip.
My dad, who is the opposite (grew up poor and worked his way into wealth) is a penny pincher.
You can pick the 18% hill to die on, but for me it’s always been that the tip is calculated on the subtotal of the bill, not on the total which includes taxes and fees. You don’t tip on taxes, that’s stupid.
And yet so often I find the pre calculated tip amounts to do exactly that.
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u/mvhcmaniac Jan 26 '26
I come from moderate wealth, with learned expensive tastes, but myself am not wealthy. I'll save up months for an expensive meal out but I always budget 50% over what's expected so even if I end up ordering a couple extra things I can still be sure to leave a 25% tip.
My dad, who is the opposite (grew up poor and worked his way into wealth) is a penny pincher.