>>you can still tip at restaurants where the service is already added to the bill automatically (so you go in knowing the meal will cost 20% more than what the

>>you can still tip at restaurants where the service is already added to the bill automatically (so you go in knowing the meal will cost 20% more than what the listed prices are They better just raise the menu price, any place that has a 20% service charge added automatically (outside the standard large party ) will never get my patronage again >> once you add sales tax that is nothing like Sales Tax. Sales tax is a fee the government is charging ME that the business is mandated by the government to collect on my behalf, I owe the tax not the business. People often do not understand that context. Just like when your employer taxes out of your paycheck, you owe the income tax but the employer is mandated to collect it because the government do not trust you with your own money.