tipping and the dining plan

[loriandmatt]

is the tip included in the dining plan or should i budget to be tipping independant of my pre-paid dining plan?

 

[GretchGraham]

Tips and taxes are included.

 

[jcanary]

I always left an extra 5 or 10 if the service was good. I wanted to make sure that they got paid for the extra service, after all I was getting a lot of food for a fraction of the cost. You can make the judgement for yourself. If you have 7 days and therefore 7 table service meals planned then what's another $35.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Standard tip was included - 18 percent, I think? But we left a little extra sometimes for especially good service.

 

[kcashner]

There is an 18% tip included on the DDP. If the service is really good, you might want to leave a little more. We were really pleased by the excellent service!

 

[PrincessTrisha]

Your question has already been answered, but just let me say that you are not obligated to leave any more tip regardless of how good a deal you've gotten or than it's ONLY 18% - servers never expected anything more than for us to sign the bill. When it was a 15% tip, I did indeed leave more for good service but at 18% of what tends to be a very high bill (because of the appetizer, entree, and dessert for each person) I felt no obligation to leave more.

For instance at le Cellier for two people on our bill, the waitress received a $19 tip.