General Store Cafe Dinner Menu M-W

I've never seen an automatic gratuity of 18% added to split checks. Yes, it's a little extra work, but I sure would not want to agree to give that much of a tip before I'm served and see if the service is worth that tip, more, or less. It says here, too, that you have to announce when seated that you will want a split check; perhaps that is for those people who ordered many different things and then ask the server to sort it all at the end by who had what. I never do that; when we split a check, we just tell the server to divide it down the middle, in thirds, or whatever applies.