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Old 23-11-2009, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by TrevorW View Post
Question:

1. Pie Chips and Coke for lunch at a takeaway deli in Australia $10 average

2. Places like Ponderosa, Sizzlers, Western Sizzling etc do a fixed price for all you can eat. Last years prices were, all u can eat at breakfast for $4.99, lunch $7.99 and evening meal $9.99 in the US

18% gratuity for lunch $1.44, total lunch for a sit down all you can eat $9.76

Well I'm eating in the US and paying the gratuity makes gastrnomic sense to me
Makes sense as far as your hip pocket nerve goes...things are cheaper over there (and most places here are ripoff merchants), but that doesn't make tipping right.