You are my kind of guy! Good job.

"Tippage" certainly is a word and in common use.

I'm not going to opine if it was used properly, but it is a very common word.

Google is your friend. It's usually particularly helpful, when publicly correcting someone who might not be as wrong as you think.

My bad, your original post looked like you meant $3.75 not 3.75%, or I misinterpreted it.

Not according to Webster's Dictionary:

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"Tippage" is a fee that is paid to dispose of waste (& sometimes other products).
"Tippage" is also a noun, to describe ... something that "tips".
"Tippage" is also a noun used to describe provided advice regarding a "stock" or something similar.

Some tippage rates going up at Sylvan Lake Waste Transfer Site | rdnewsnow.com

Landfill

Westlock County - Landfill

The Resourceful Woodworker cures ‘Tippage’ - Woodworking Wisdom | Axminster Tools

TIPPING | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary



Apparently Webster's online isn't quite as accurate as they used to pride themselves on.

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I used Google per your suggestion and could not find "tippage" defined in any real online dictionary. It's obviously not a proper word.

Just scroll up a couple of posts.

& you're right, most online dictionaries don't seem to have the word, but it's been in common usage for at least 40 years that I know of. Ask any truck driver who's ever been to a "dump", landfill or disposal site, almost without exception they'll tell you they pay "Tippage Fees". (I'll agree that other uses of the word are more obscure.)

Apology accepted. :boxing2:

Post a link to one real dictionary that has it. Please, no urban slang.

Oh no... I am turning into a pedant. Woe is me.

Yet, you still punished the server... Pretty crappy game you're playing...

20% on top of the taxed amount, 25% if the service is exceptional...

30% at lower priced establishments... They work just as hard, but make less due the lower price points...

Does that satisfy your expectations?

He took the 3.75% (the credit card fee?) off of his 20% tip, leaving a 16.25% tip. Hence the $22.10...

136 x 16.25% = 22.10

When it comes to tipping, I usually go with flow, except that I will not tip anything for bad service. I feel like I am helping to improve the server's performance.

But, I am surprised at how many people apparently believe that the server has no responsibilty or accountability for the overall quality of the restaurant. If the restaurant is bad, or is overcharging, then the server should accept some responsibiIty because they are a key part of the business. They can influence management decisions, and they can also choose to work somewhere else.

That was another lie my parents told me!:)

Sure... Tipping "over" the commonly accepted rate, by an amount that I want to pay makes me "hypocritical"... Do you even read what you post?

You were criticized for punishing a server for something out of their control. You sure showed them!

Oh, and you're still using "tippage" incorrectly...

[QUOTE=roob1;2271853]What is your take on surcharges and convenience fees applied to credit card sales in Florida? Just paid one today, and noted that Sumter County applies surcharge to tax bills paid by credit card

Let's face it, Credit issuing is a business, whatever the traffic will bare probably applies. After all these years, doubt people will ever return to a cash society.. but of course who knows what world might look like in the future. A chip planted directly into you that records you bank account balances ? Meanwhile, our "politicians" know where most of these companies are headquartered primarily in Delaware, and could make it illegal IF they wanted to, but doubt there would be any "will", CC companies probably heavily contribute to both political parties, who would want to chop down the golden money tree ! We "could" try to resist by paying in cash as much as possible, but that's really inconvenient to impossible in some places. I've read of people who protest additional charges if having to put property taxes on their credit cards... they get thousands of dollars in pennies and take them to the tax office. Enough days like that, and any surcharges "might" be eliminated. I have lived in counties where taxes can be paid via cc with no "surcharge", the country appreciated the quick, easy, process as it saved them a great deal on $$$ opposed to the paper work and recording and human hours needed to process and record cash and checks !