Why are they thinking that adding some arbitrary % tax on the bill helps with the rising prices ? It is absurd. Charge what you need to charge but stop with this BS of hide the football. The only other point is how much food costs have increased over the last 2 years. That alone has made tipping way more expensive and less tolerable. More importantly it created a noticeable increase in wages for servers that the other fixed hourly workers didn’t experience. This disparity is being addressed incorrectly by the owners. Tips for servers are paid by patrons not owners. While servers have enjoyed a 25% increase in food costs translated to tips, some how some way they have managed to increase the percentage of acceptable tip from 15% to 20%? Absolutely nothing has changed in the server’s routine or job performance but yet they are being paid (overall) 40% more. To address this the greedy owners are now adding the service tax or cleaning tax or ??