I put myself through college waiting tables and learned quite a bit about people in general. FYI - the group policy is not "law", in fact it is usually the waiter's call to use it or not. I learned to read people and when to make use of the auto tip policy.
For example, most black people do not tip more than a few dollars regardless of the size of the bill. Neither do white trash families. I loved the auto large group tip policy when I had tables of 6 or more of these types.
They would always try to argue by getting separate checks but never win.
What would make matters worse was when they would all order water, a bunch of lemons and then use the sugar to make "lemonaide". It would really piss them off when I would charge them for it too. Water might be free, but you had lemonaide, that's a $1.25 on the menu see...( grin politely)....
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