How to Calculate a Restaurant Tip

Series Summary

Teachers play an integral role in the development and education of children. Working in schools, academies or a community setting, a teacher's job focuses on facilitating student learning through lessons and demonstrations. High school teachers, in particular, play an important role in helping prepare students for college and jobs in the real world. All teachers, high school teachers included, face the difficult job of keeping students engaged and excited about learning. While education careers are quite difficult, for most teachers the benefit of shaping young minds far outweighs the challenges. In this free video series on education, an experienced educator discusses several teaching tips to implement in the classroom. Learn about teaching theater appreciation, and find out about directing and managing a play production. Get ideas for becoming a well-liked teacher, a frightening teacher and a moderator during class discussions. Keep students engaged in class by varying the lecture style, and get creative teaching ideas for a more successful classroom.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner. And today I'm going to talk to you about how to calculate your restaurant tip. Usually gratuity for a server at a restaurant is going to be about fifteen percent of your bill. So if we say today we have a thirty five dollar bill. First you're going to just enter that into your calculator, or onto your cell phone if you have a calculator on your cell phone. And you're going to multiply it by point one five. And what you'll come out with is five dollars and twenty five cents for the exact fifteen percent of your thirty five dollar bill. Another good way to think about tipping in a restaurant is assessing your tip based on not just the fifteen percent factor, but also did you have a good service factor. Were your drinks refilled on time? Did your food come out on time? Was the food good or was the food bad? And was that the server's fault or was that somebody in the kitchen's fault? So you don't, for example, want to give a server a bad tip just because the food was bad. Because it's really not the server who is cooking the food. But so, if the server has compensated for your food being bad by being a great server, then go ahead and give him, you know, twenty percent of your bill. And that's just some tips for calculating a tip."