If a restaurant takes service charge, do I have to tip?

If a restaurant automatically adds a service charge to your bill, do you still have to tip?|||Some restaurants add a "service charge" of 15% to 18% to the check, especially for large groups. It's all too common for the person who's presented with the bill to go into shock when the bottom line comes to two hundred bucks or more. So they leave a tip of ten dollars or so and think they're being generous.





If a service charge of 15% or more is tacked onto the bill, no, you don't have to add anything extra as a tip.





In France at caf茅s and restaurants, it's quite common for a 15% service charge to be added to the official bill. Many people do add a little extra in cash on the table for the waiter.|||I never heard of a service charge. But if a gratuity is automatically added, then that is the tip.|||No.








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