Sentence examples for the gratuity from inspiring English sources
noun
An additional payment given freely as thanks for service &c.
Tyson Foods topped the gratuity list.
"What amazes me is the gratuity of it.
"Sometimes the gratuity will be decided by the audience," he answers thoughtfully.
Instead, the court required that the gratuity be linked to a specific exercise of governmental authority.
"Instead, many businesses have chosen to continue business as usual and profit from the gratuity charges".
Some hotels now automatically bundle the gratuity in with the service, she said.
"In fact, a customer who routinely tips twenty per cent" — making her total bill higher than the gratuity-included alternative — "will still view the no-tipping restaurant as more expensive," Lynn told me.
The coffee chain maintains that supervisors "deserve their fair share" of the gratuities; the baristas claim their tips are subsidising managers' wages.
Two chains operated by Gondola Holdings, the country's biggest restaurant operator, Zizzi and Ask, also use a portion of the gratuities added by customers on credit and debit cards to pay the minimum wage.
What this means is that even after you've rifled through the data and researched the gratuities administered by your neighbors and friends, you don't know what you don't know.
Under the gratuities and bribery laws, it is not illegal to give an expensive present to a government official so long as it is not given for any particular action.
