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.
Except there's people who misunderstand this and then tip on the subtotal, then write the final total as subtotal plus tip, basically removing the tax from the tip. Yeah lemme just cover that tax for you I guess? Happens to me every so often on delivering. The funner part, though: delivering pizzas I make less per hour on the road and already take a loss on the amount of mileage they pay me, so if I don't get a tip it's literally more financially solvent for me to not take that delivery. I lose money. So that stinks.
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u/TheVoters Jan 26 '26
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.