You have to be a special breed of stupid if you can't figure a simple percentage of a bill out or divide by X in your head.
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How to Use Your Apple Watch to Split the Bill and Calculate Tips
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Just get businesses to pay their staff appropriately and tipping isn't required.
If you know the bill will be split evenly, you should order the most expensive thing on the menu. You may as well, because someone has to come out on top.
All Apple Watch models include a stock Calculator app that offers a couple of handy features for working out how much you should tip when eating out and how much each person in a group owes if you're splitting the bill.
The two functions can be used together, but if it's just yourself dining out then you can just leave the People field set to 1. The steps below show you how it works.
Note: If you see a standard percentage (%) button where the TIP button should be, you can change the calculator layout to replace it. Simply go to Settings -> Calculator and select Tip Function instead of Per cent.
How to Use the Split Bill and Tip Calculator Functions on Apple Watch
- Launch the Calculator app on your Apple Watch.
- Enter the total amount of the bill.
- Tap the TIP button in the top-right corner, just left of the divide button.
- With the Tip field highlighted in green, turn your watch's Digital Crown to change the percentage.
- To split the bill between a group of people, tap People and then use the Digital Crown to change the number (the maximum is 50).
You'll see the total amount below the two fields change to reflect your tip adjustments, and the amount below that will change depending on how many people are paying.
Article Link: How to Use Your Apple Watch to Split the Bill and Calculate Tips
I’m ready to get yelled at for my shock that most people can’t at least estimate a 15 or 20% tip in their heads…
Take 10% (easy) and either add half of that to itself or double it…
LOL this makes me think of the part in Willy Wonka where he is explaining percentages
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“That’s 10% half over again, which makes it 15%”
If they still taught math like this instead of insisting kids “show their work” for every single character they “carried over”, we’d have a much more competent population.
I knew someone who was so afraid of math, they wouldn’t play any board game that had two dice, because you’d have to add the dice together. Lol
Are you sure?
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Interesting, thanks! I wonder how this has changed since 2018 according to that source. It appears States are making up the majority of funding since the Fed is allocating less?
I tip 20% before tax because the tax is a government add-on that has nothing to do with the service.
You seem to imply I can’t do math. I can, and for such a simple operation, a calculator isn’t even needed. I was just pointing out something incorrect, which I actively had to check since I probably never even opened the calculator app on my Apple Watch before today.
I also wasn’t aware there was a tip option, but that’s probably because I live in a country where staff actually gets paid instead of having to rely on tips.
Edit: I know you didn’t quote me, but you reaction to my previous message makes your intent fairly clear.
This doesn't solve the problem of one person ordering way more than everyone else, then saying "let's just split it, yeah?"
All Apple Watch models include a stock Calculator app that offers a couple of handy features for working out how much you should tip when eating out and how much each person in a group owes if you're splitting the bill.
The two functions can be used together, but if it's just yourself dining out then you can just leave the People field set to 1. The steps below show you how it works.
Note: If you see a standard percentage (%) button where the TIP button should be, you can change the calculator layout to replace it. Simply go to Settings -> Calculator and select Tip Function instead of Per cent.
How to Use the Split Bill and Tip Calculator Functions on Apple Watch
- Launch the Calculator app on your Apple Watch.
- Enter the total amount of the bill.
- Tap the TIP button in the top-right corner, just left of the divide button.
- With the Tip field highlighted in green, turn your watch's Digital Crown to change the percentage.
- To split the bill between a group of people, tap People and then use the Digital Crown to change the number (the maximum is 50).
You'll see the total amount below the two fields change to reflect your tip adjustments, and the amount below that will change depending on how many people are paying.
Article Link: How to Use Your Apple Watch to Split the Bill and Calculate Tips
As long as we’re on the topic, I always found it funny when a nicer restaurant acts as though they’re too sophisticated to divide the bill the way we want. When the teenage server at the pancake restaurant can do it, I think the nicer places can do it too. Just because we went to a nice restaurant doesn’t mean we all share a bank account.
That looks like a PITA; I just use the "Tab" app (US) to split bills. Take a picture of the bill, add people, click and choose what they ordered. All done. I think it even lets you send a request via Venmo to people.
Yeah there is a sense that they l scoff at the idea.
I went to an upscale restaurant on a double date recently and while they did split it, they messed it up and I ended up paying $30 more than my wife and I had, so maybe they simply aren’t smart enough lol
… or you can just multiply by 1,tip percentage i.e. Tip of 20%, multiply the bill by 1,2 which gets you the bill plus tip. It’s not hard.
