Correct, if your bill is $100 without the 20% discount you would pay a 6.5% tax which makes your bill $106.50 then you would add the 18% tip which would be $125.67. With the discount your $100 bill is now $80. Now when you add the 6.5% your bill is $85.20 and the 18% tip will bring your bill to $97.35. That's a savings of $28.32.
Does Disney figure tax and tip differently? Every place I've ever eaten at in every state or country I've ever been to I always figure my tip based on the total bill after tax has been added so the $100 bill plus the 6.5% tax would come to $106.50 and I'd figure the tip based on that, not on the original $100 tab.
Maybe it's a NYC thing. Unless we eat at a chain restaurant, which is rare, our bills never have suggested tip amounts listed on them. I don't mind over tipping though, we go to a few of the same restaurants and know the wait staff so they must think we are great customers. In the end, the difference between pre and post tax tipping isn't that much so I'm OK with it.
True, but when we go out locally, the tabs rarely go over $150 for the 3 of us so it's only a difference of $2-$3. Obviously when you start getting into higher tabs, the difference will be greater. I'm glad I found this out before we went down there. I was comparing the cost of the DDP to OOP and OOP was less expensive for the way we eat, now it will cost us even less. I may even be able to tip my usual 20% now that I have some wiggle room.
Oh, absolutely, at home here it doesn't mean much because we don't eat out very often but in Disney with dinners possibly running as much as $250 (we likes our cocktails!Call me tight (or maybe poor is more like it) but even $3 x 7 TS meals a week = $21. That's at least worth a couple of cocktails!!!
) it can make a HUGE difference.
