Please help me with TIW math

[Tiger926]

I am math challenged - I'm an English teacher, for goodness sakes - LOL! Hubby is a banker, but he's asleep, and I'm poring over our dining list as we have to make ADRs in a few weeks and we can't decide between DxDP and TIW. We've done both several times, but I can't access my old receipts right now as baby is asleep.

Can someone explain to me what my receipt would look like for a character breakfast at 1900 PF:

2 adults @ $20.99/person
1 child @ $11.99/person

I can't figure out how the 20% discount and 18% tip and then tax is added. I'm not sure of what order they are taken.

Can anyone who is not math challenged help a girl out? Thanks, Tiger

 

[allshookup]

I am math challenged - I'm an English teacher, for goodness sakes - LOL! Hubby is a banker, but he's asleep, and I'm poring over our dining list as we have to make ADRs in a few weeks and we can't decide between DxDP and TIW. We've done both several times, but I can't access my old receipts right now as baby is asleep.

Can someone explain to me what my receipt would look like for a character breakfast at 1900 PF:

2 adults @ $20.99/person
1 child @ $11.99/person

I can't figure out how the 20% discount and 18% tip and then tax is added. I'm not sure of what order they are taken.

Can anyone who is not math challenged help a girl out? Thanks, Tiger

I'm not positive, but I heard they take the 20% discount & then add the 18% gratuity, even though it's usually the other way around.

+20.99
+20.99
+11.99
-------
*53.97
+ 3.50 tax
---------
*57.47
-11.49 20% disc
----------
*45.98
+8.28 18% tip
-----------
*54.26

 

[vicki_c]

Actually, although on your receipt it looks like they take the discount before adding the tip, that's only because of the order it prints on the receipt.

So first you will see the 20% discount (one for food and one for beverages), then a subtotal, then the 18% gratuity.

However, the 18% gratuity is on the total bill BEFORE the discount is taken.

Then tax is added on to that discounted subtotal + 18% gratuity on non-discounted total.

Hope that helps - I had a receipt sitting right next to me, so I could figure it out.

I tried to figure it out for your specific example, but I'm not sure about the tax - my bill looks like 5% or 6.5% tax depending on whether you add tax on the gratuity or not - that's a little confusing to me. But here's what I came up with, up to the tax part.
$20.99
$20.99
$11.99
$53.97 this won't show on the bill
$10.79 20% discount
$43.18 subtotal
$9.71 18% gratuity (on 53.97)
Tax
$52.89 New total w/o tax

 

[Tiger926]

Thanks. My hubby just came in and said this looks right as well with the 6.5% tax included.

I knew that the 18% gratuity was added on to the actual food amount, but then I wasn't sure about how the tax and discount would be calculated on that.

Thanks to you both for your time, Tiger