DEAR ABBY: I go to a small restaurant and order dinner for two. No drinks or dessert. The check is around $20 and the tip, $3.
The next time I visited the same restaurant, the dinner check was $30 (they had raised their prices), so why should the tip be more, just because I spent more on food? There was no more work involved. -- BRUCE IN TEWKSBURY, MASS.
DEAR BRUCE: Because the tip is usually figured as a percentage of the cost of the meal -- and the bigger the bill, the larger the tip.