Tipping, automatic gratuity for large parties

[By-Tor]

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Automatic gratuities are simply necessary to avoid situations where a waiter gets shafted. It's one thing to get stiffed on a party of 2, but when a big party takes up a waiter's section all night and leaves him like $5 or something, it's just not right.

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I'm sorry, but the occasional stiff is the cost of doing business.

And I personally do not care about their time involved to setup/break down for service. That's called overhead.

If a resturant is so scared that they may occasionally get stiffered on a tip, they shouldn't be in the resturant business in the first place.