I am mostly packed. I think. There is barely room for my clothes. RIDICULOUS.

If I'm forgetting something or not packing warmly enough OH WELL. I do need to straighten up around here though. It's clean, just cluttered. God, is it cluttered.

Go eat msbelle! Just chew carefully.

That seems a pretty high threshold to me.

It depends on where the restaurant is, I think. 17% is definitely on the low end for NYC.

That seems a pretty high threshold to me.

Yeah, Bitter Waitress better get ready for a long lifetime full of abject disappointment if anything less than 17% is considered an insult. Particularly if the site's theme of snotty entitlement is actually displayed to the customers before they receive the check.

That seems a pretty high threshold to me.

Yeah, me too. Who gets to make that call anyway?

The PATH was not as fun today. It has been "discovered."

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17% is definitely on the low end for NYC.

Jaysus. If not for my lazy math, this makes we wonder if I've been undertipping in LA. What's a standard NY tip?

18-20%, I'd say. I generally calculate 20% and round down to the nearest dollar. If service was really good, I round up.

baseline in NY is to double the tax - that gives you about 17%. People here usually round up to 20%, but that is so not typical for the rest of the country. Especially not for non "fancy" places.

I usually do around 20% but not less than 15% . except at the cafe where I eat breakfast. sometimes there is tip , sometimes no tip, and sometimes a 20.00 goes in the tip jar. They only take cash - so it just depends if I haven't tipped in awhile. Or if the person who cuts Matt's hair and colors my hair would take anymoney - since it is her family that owns the cafe I throw extra in the tip jar that week.

I generally tip 20%, unless they fucked up the order badly and forgot our table. Then it goes down to between 17-15%. You'd have to personally insult my child to get a 10% tip.