Tipping caterers

Tracyfish

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So we're getting ready to have our Teacher Appreciation Luncheon and it's being catered by a small local restaurant that has done it a couple times for us before.

Our principal always has us add on a 20% tip to the bill (she kinda micromanages our PTO). Anyway, I was just looking up the etiquette on this and most sites say that the tip is usually built into the bill. Since we just get a bill for ex: $6.25 per meal I have no way of knowing.

There are usually 3 people who come set up and then 2 stay to help serve for about 4 hours total.

Does anyone have experience with this and can give me some advice? Do you think the tip is built in? Is 20% normal (most sites I read said 10-15% since it's probably already in there).

Just curious.
 
As someone that has recently begun doing accounting work for a restaurant, I have a new appreciation for tipped wages and how little that is when compared to others. This restaurant/caterer does add a gratuity onto its bills as a separate line item so that you can see it. I would ask, Tracy. Other than that, I would say add the tip! That $4.77 they get paid an hour can't possibly go very far in today's market and the profit margin on food just isn't very high at all.
 
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