How to Tip
Holidays are ’round the corner. With the Holiday season comes trips, hotel stays, frequent restaurant meals and everything similar. Unfortunately, paying the bills for hotel rooms and dinners isn’t the end. If your bill doesn’t cover service charge, tips are also part of the expenditures. When you decide on how much cash to carry, it’s always best if you consider tips as part of the expenditures. Not that I think it would amount to much that you’d need a hefty sum especially set aside for tips. And not that I think you would only carry only the EXACT amount of cash you’d need. Still, it’s always best if you include tips when considering how much you’ll spend for vacations or meals out.
We all know we need to tip waiters in restaurants and boy bells in hotels. There are others which you might not know you need to tip too. To sum it up, in a vacation, you might find yourself tipping frequently and thinking about the overall sum of your tips might make you want to back out of a trip. One way to go about it is not to think of it beforehand as “tip” expenditure but rather as part of the service you’re availing.
Some services wherein which you might neglect tipping people who deserve it include massages, spas, facials, valet parking personnel, baristas and bartenders among a slew of others. When tipping, the universal rule is usually 10% of the total price of the service. This might not be, however, applicable to every kind of service you avail. At times like these when holidaying is common practice, it’s best to know how to tip. To know how much to shell out, exactly, read The Ultimate Tipping Guide by The Frugal Law Student.
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