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any time the restaurant wants to include gratuity on the check, even if i plan on giving a decent amount, i tell them i like to keep my records accurate and tell them i need the gratuity taken off as that is clearly charity and deductible. then proceed to put the meal on plastic, and the gratuity in cash. NOTE: my friends and my sisters were both servers and I personally do NOT think that gratuity is charity, but 1) it usually makes them mad. 2)they usually need to get a manager to separate it in which case the manager is at least aware of it being added to the bill if not already.
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