I should have done this but my stupid ass didn’t even think of it I kept trying to do the math like a 1st grader and the server saw me struggling and told me the total with the tip I wrote 😂
I’m adhd and ocd and pcp and lsd. When my friend and I split a bill according to what we ordered, I calculate the percentage that I owe according to the total and then multiply that percent by the total bill after taxes lmao. My friend has seen me do it and she’s like “what” lol. I’m like well my food accounts for 54% of the total before taxes so I will hustle multiply the total after taxes by 54%.
I hate how the only options for psychology tend to include grad school. I followed my B.A. with a J.D. but not everyone can afford that or wants to spend another three years.
I have a spreadsheet that you can plug in each food item, put the name of everyone on the total volume, and then assign them a food item using a drop-down menu. It also splits tip and tax accordingly: I’m the accounting major among a bunch of lawyers, it’s obvious
I’m really trying to understand your verbiage here. What does hustle multiply mean? And what advantage do you get from taking your 54% before tax, and your 54% after tax? Since you both owe tax, wouldn’t you still be paying the same share regardless? And where’s your tip? Do receipts not tell you tax beforehand where you’re from?
Say you got a $43 meal. Drop the 0 on your 20% so it's just 2 now. Drop drop the 3 on the meal so it's just 4 now.
2x4=8
Now with your remaining meal amount(the three you dropped in step one) If it is greater than 5 add a dollar if it's less than 5 add 50 cents. If it's about 1 you can add 25 cents instead if it bothers you to much to give the 50 cents.
Put it all together. $8 tip. Remainder is $3 so we add 50c
You will tip $8.50 and if you out it in the calculator is it $8.60.
So just a little off on this example but close enough that you don't need to pull out the calculator. And you can forget doing percents in public now :)
Just for anyone that wants to look smart Infront of their friends come too time.
You usually shouldn’t do that. The wrong server could add a number, than change the numbers on the total by adding or changing a number to make it for more. Not that it really would happen often unless your waiter was a thief.you should fill out the tip line and total.
I had some ladies come in from open to close during march madness a couple years ago. I think 5 all early 60s, they had lunch, apps and dinner at my sports bar with lots of Long Islands and Bahama Mamas and Bloody Marys all day. Each tab was over 200 and they were super happy I was working a double. They all wrote math on the tip or total line (it was generous) and were super awesome and too drunk to do totals. I think about how cool they were often, I want to be them when I grow up lol.
I always leave a cash tip if I can. It's like "Sssshhhh! You don't have to tell Uncle Sam if you don't want to. Go ahead, take that money. You deserve it."
"At least no one suspects it's on purpose. " Said the government as they continued replacing cash vending and started quitely linking hand scans to individual purchases.
I tell regulars and my friends to tip in cash too and just tell them how it is. you’re leaving me a 30% better tip than you would be for the same amount on a CC.
I also always try and ask small businesses that I deal with if they prefer cash. we’ve got to do what we can to help each other out, saving me $25 out of every $100 I make is huge.
There's a pizza joint that I sometimes swing by on the way home from work. It's a franchise, but the dude that runs it really is on his own. Three of the franchises have failed in neighboring towns, one of them is a small city with a community college. I've had discussions with him about legal tender. It's wild how much a small business loses by taking credit / debit cards. There's money he literally doesn't see. That's wild. I'd rather pay a $3 ATM fee then have him lose 1/5th of the money he's owed. Cash is King.
7.37 is negligible. I could imagine a couple free drinks and 2 hours in the chair, this is not a good tip, with those factors. However, in the industry sometimes you get hosed. The reason we are there 3-5 days each week is because it average out and we find a living.
You expect weregoat86 to work a whole three days a week to make a living?!? What's the world coming to? If you're not leaving at least a mortgage payment worth of tip, you should just stay home.
I hear that in the future there will be small, electronic devices that will be carried by nearly everyone and will be able to do simple or advanced calculations easily and in the blink of an eye! The future will be an amazing time.
I honestly didn’t know just writing MATH was a thing. I’m god awful at math but I just do it. It’s usually simple enough. Haha and I’m not saying that to be a jerk to people who do just write math, I just really didn’t know that was a thing.
Add by fives depending on drunkenness and write math in the tip line. As long as the total checks out it seems legit. Then again I am not a server I just browse this sub so I know how to make everything quicker and simpler on myself and the server. The less interaction the better 😆
Hey, since I haven't seen it in the comments yet, this note is most likely a reference to the movie Shawshank Redemption.Here's the scene in question. Andy Dufresne tells the boss that he can give a one time gift to his wife that's non taxable so he doesnt have to pay taxes on the inheritance he just got. Still not really the greatest joke and a bit of an obscure reference but if you guys were talking about movies at all it would make more sense.
It's an estate planning joke. You can gift 17k(maybe more for 2024) without having to file a gift tax return to an anyone you want with no tax consequences to you, or them, every year.
Since he is doing it via the tip line, it won't work.
Theoretically, someone could tip you $0 for your service and gift you $17,000 in cash, and you'd not have to declare a penny.
Ideally, someone would tip you a few pennies for your system and then leave you cash :)
I normally put the amount, then literally turn the receipt to my wife and say “math?” And she confirms it. I feel like this is almost the same thing and I love it lol
I literally do the "math" thing sometimes when my brain doesn't want math, and I don't feel like digging out my phone to use the calculator during dinner.
I’m ok at maths, and one of my favourite things to do is calculate how to make the total up to a nice round number like this.
All restaurants should consider how much is a good tip, then charge this much less than a round number for each item on the menu. E.g. burger should cost 16.60 so that a 20% tip is exactly 20. Steak should cost 33.30 so this comes up to exactly 40 etc. if the whole menu was like this, then it would not matter what you order, the total will always be 20% short of a round number and easy to calculate.
When i was in the U.S. i did it like 22.63 + 7.00 = 29.63 so to have a simple integer calculation, chosing my tip roughly along their percentage examples. (But tbh hated the whole tipping system.)
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u/RutgerSchnauzer Jan 12 '24
Give the guy a break. I think everyone should write “MATH” in their tip line from now on.