Originally Posted by Charlatan

I thought we had solved this. The rule of thumb we were raised with was tip 15%. It seems the bar in the US has been raised to 20% and nobody let us know.

Seems you need some serious PR and Marketing initiative to bring the rest of us up to speed.

As I said before, I much prefer to that the gratuity included in the bill (that or pay a decent wage and eradicate tipping altogether).