gratuity

How to use gratuity in a sentence

• The measures also address longstanding problems for the city’s estimated 65,000 food delivery workers have faced, including access to restaurant bathrooms, limiting the distance for deliveries, and disclosing gratuity policies to workers.

  Delivery workers in New York City will be paid a minimum wage | Michelle Cheng | September 23, 2021 | Quartz

• If a restaurant doesn’t add on gratuity, then I have to hope for a 10% or 15% tip on the bill, and that’s if they order an appetizer, entree, liquor and dessert.

  This Should Be a Boom Time for Restaurants. But Owners—and the Few Workers Remaining—Are Struggling | Emily Barone | June 29, 2021 | Time

• If the recipient rebuffs a gratuity, however, you may have found yourself in the rare circumstance where it is genuinely not expected — or even allowed.

  Miss Manners: Neighbor promised a replacement for vacuum playmate | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | February 19, 2021 | Washington Post

• This, of course, I gladly granted as well as a little parting gratuity.

  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow

• Although the gratuity has been frequently calculated in anticipation, you fail in making the mutual reminiscences agreeable.

  The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harper