{"id":5607,"date":"2011-11-07T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:12:34","slug":"important-safety-tip-8-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=5607","title":{"rendered":"Important safety tip (#8 in a series)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you dine out, in a sit-down restaurant, where someone actually brings food to your table, you should leave a <strong>reasonable <\/strong>tip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m generally on the side of 15% as a base, though what I do in practice is double the sales tax. (Local sales tax around Austin is generally 8.25%, so that&#8217;s actually 16.5%.) I will tip 20% or 25% if I have a good reason to. I&#8217;m not as bothered by an 18% mandatory gratuity on large parties as I used to be; <strong>if <\/strong>the definition of a large party meets mine (five people is not large; seven+ is) and <strong>if <\/strong>they go above and beyond in some way (splitting the ticket six or seven ways for a party of seven, to me, justifies at least 18%).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I <strong>strongly <\/strong>recommend against a 200%+ tip, especially if you&#8217;re on an expense account.<\/p>\n<p>Because if you&#8217;re on an expense account and turn in a receipt that shows you tipped the waitress at Hooter&#8217;s $24.52 for a mushroom cheeseburger that cost $7.48, somebody in the accounting department is going to ask questions. And eventually they&#8217;re going to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2011\/nov\/07\/records-show-yakima-police-covered-beer-purchases\/\">you tipped the waitress $24.52 to cover your bar tab, since your city expense account doesn&#8217;t cover alcohol.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The heck of it is, I think the city policy is unreasonable. It doesn&#8217;t bother me that much for a couple of off-duty cops dining out of town to have a beer or two with their meals, and have the city pay for it. As long as they don&#8217;t get messed up and embarrass the city, say, by having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=191\">the waitress pose with their patrol rifle<\/a>, I don&#8217;t get hot and bothered by adults having a beer. But if they knew city policy was otherwise, and they lied about it because they were too cheap to pay their own bar tab, yeah, fire their butts.)<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re not on an expense account, the above doesn&#8217;t apply to you. Feel free to tip the waitress 200%. Or 300%. Or 500%. But keep in mind; she&#8217;s not going to sleep with you, no matter how much you tip her.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you dine out, in a sit-down restaurant, where someone actually brings food to your table, you should leave a reasonable tip. I&#8217;m generally on the side of 15% as a base, though what I do in practice is double the sales tax. (Local sales tax around Austin is generally 8.25%, so that&#8217;s actually 16.5%.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,105,10,23,106,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-cops","category-food","category-law","category-safety","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}