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Originally Posted by CinnamonGirl
On tipping in general... servers get taxed 10% of sales. That means if you leave your waiter a 10% tip, they didn't make any money on your table. Less than that means they just paid for the privilege of waiting on you.
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Is that really the case? It does not seem likely that they would be taxed on the actual sale.
Anyway, here in Iceland, there's not tipping (and tax is included in the price, so you pay what's listed on the menu. Of course it's still odiously expensive). In the US I used to tip in the 10-15% range for a pizza delivery, though I assumed that the delivery charge went (at least mostly) to the driver. Good to know that it actually doesn't, I'll have to adjust for that.
I do think that the US food industry should not be allowed to pay employees below the minimum wage, but I don't make the rules... I'm also perfectly fine with delivered food costing extra, but I can see why they want to make it more attractive to the customer by charging the same price for take out and delivery.