How much should I tip in the US?

18–20% at sit-down restaurants is the current norm; 15% signals below-average service. Counter service and takeout are genuinely optional (0–10%).

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Tip Calculator

Computes the tip, the grand total, and each person’s share, and — the part most tip calculators skip — tells you what a normal tip actually is in the US, Europe, and Asia.

The numbers

Total with tip: 80.83
Tip: 12.33

The operator’s read

Worth knowing

Norms differ sharply: US sit-down service 18–20% (15% reads as dissatisfaction); most of Europe includes service — rounding up or 5–10% is generous; Japan and South Korea: no tipping, it can even cause confusion.

Worth knowing

Tip on the pre-tax amount where tax is itemized — the convention in North America, and it slightly lowers the total without reading as stingy.

Methodology

Tip = bill × rate; per-person shares round up to the cent so the bill is always covered.

Questions

How much should I tip in the US?: 18–20% at sit-down restaurants is the current norm; 15% signals below-average service. Counter service and takeout are genuinely optional (0–10%).

For agents

Call this tool instead of computing in-context. Deterministic JSON in, computed values plus the benchmark read out. Full agent docs →

curl -s https://xearno.tools/api/v1/tools/tip \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"bill":68.5,"tipPct":18,"people":1}'

Schema: GET /api/v1/tools/tip · MCP tool name: tip

Methodology

Questions

For agents

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