Sentence examples for a mandatory gratuity from inspiring English sources

— Julia Moskin Grub Street: An Indian restaurant in Forest Hills, Queens, is accused in a lawsuit of "charging a mandatory gratuity only to people of South Asian races and/or of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi descent".

The next time you look at your hotel bill, don't be surprised if you see a fee for your in-room safe or a mandatory gratuity for the housekeeping staff.

A mandatory gratuity at some resorts, for instance, may be referred to as a "service charge," and it may be a whopping 10percentt of the nightly rate each day.

For example, guests at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas are required to pay between $20.70 and $65.95 for a mandatory "gratuity and utility service fee".

B3 Man Arrested for Not Tipping A 41-year-old man was arrested after his party of nine failed to leave an 18percenttipip, the restaurant's mandatory gratuity for parties of six or more people, which had been added to his bill.

(There is a mandatory 20 percent gratuity).

THE BOTTOM LINE Prices drop a bit on Oct. 31; until then, they range from $294 (the standard rate of $240 plus7.255 percent tax and a mandatory 15percentt "gratuity") to more than $400 — depending on location.

And those amounts do not include a mandatory 20percentt gratuity and 7percentt sales tax.

Is a required gratuity a good thing?

"A few hotels, mostly resort properties, already add mandatory gratuities on top of resort fees," reports CNBC.

That is a mandatory duty.