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For the wine situation, I think your standards for service would be higher at places you pay $120 for a bottle than $20.
by lallysingh 6y ago
For the wine situation, I think your standards for service would be higher at places you pay $120 for a bottle than $20.
- akiselev 6y agoMaybe for a $1200 bottle, but not a $120 bottle. Even my local BBQ spot has a $200 bottle and there it's self service except for drink and food orders. I'd say most of my frequent spots ($20-30 for most expensive entree) have at least one bottle in the three figure price range. However, tipping 20% on a $120 bottle would be more than half of what I tipped the last time I went to a fancy place where the staff folded the napkins every time someone got up to go to the bathroom. That was a 40% tip on a $100 meal for two (with corkage fee) where I felt the service was excellent and included far more than just pouring a few glasses.
- lallysingh 6y agoThose sound like exceptions more than general trends. The tip algorithm makes more sense for the general trend, and less so for the exceptions. That's a reasonable situation.
- irl_zebra 6y agoThe other poster answered this I think pretty succinctly. But I’m sure you could get a $100+ bottle of wine at pick-your-random-chain-restaurant similar to Chili’s or whatever is in that range, where there is certainly zero company-mandated difference in service regardless of what one orders.