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Subject: Re: Tipping in the US (at a restaurant)? Posted on: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:20:06 +0000 (UTC)

Rita wrote:

> Or if you are not sure where to pay, ask the waiter, "do I pay
> you or the cashier?" In some places I am not sure and so I ask.
> Nobody will mind if you ask questions. Sometimes the waiter will
> say, "The cashier" and other times "I can take that up for you."

Especially since it is true that if you get the bill on a tray or in a
leather folder (or if there is no cashier) you pay the server, it is not
necessarily true tha the lack of a folder/tray always means pay the cashier.

In those cases, I ask.

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