I just looked this up and found that at Chili’s ,the server shares 3-5% of the sales to the support staff. That means they receive 20% tips, pays out 5%, and keep 15%, while most of the work is done by the support staff. This isn’t logical. What did I miss?

Point taken. It wasn’t a fancy place. I just took my family to the local Chili’s. :) I paid the tips, but I don’t make enough to not notice the tips amount on the bill, thus I don’t eat out often.

The foods were actually brought out by a different person from the kitchen I guess). So the $35 tip was for the less than 10-minute interaction . We paid the tips, but honestly, it didn’t feel worth it at all).

I assume the server gets the tips right? The last time I ate out, I had a 160-ish bill. The 20% suggested tips was additional. I’m probably a jerk, but the server was at our table 4 times (drinks, order, “how’s the food”, and bill) for less than 10 min

And one more for good measure: NGC 891, the Silver Sliver, about 30 million light years away in the direction of Andromeda. NGC 891 is a spiral galaxy like M74, but we are viewing it from the side instead of face on.

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Thanks for the explanation. : )

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