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Dining outseems to become more and more complicated every day.
When eating at a restaurant, its important that you remember totipthe staff appropriately.
If you want to avoid all of that, you’re free to order takeout, of course.
But if you choose to stay home, youll end up paying an arm and a leg for delivery.
Meanwhile, it seems that restaurants are always finding new ways to add hidden charges onto our meals.
And he automatically now has a kitchen service charge added to the bill.
And she had said yes.
So not only are we tipping 18-20%, but theres an automatic service charge to back of house.
As if the owner wants the kitchen staff to make more money.
Would you dine here now knowing that this is what theyre doing?
Thats why its so important for many servers that we all tip well when dining out.
Thats over $5 an hour less than the federal minimum wage for workers who dont receive tips.
If they provide excellent service, diners should provide decent tips.
Tip pooling might also benefit hosts, bussers, dishwashers, chefs, cooks and more.
Now, aservice chargein a restaurant is not an inherently bad thing.
But not every country and business is transparent about exactly where their service charges are going.
But according to the New York Times, people dont want to pay more for food.
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