>>73297Service may be "compris", but if the service is good, or you sit there for an hour with a beer waiting for someone, yes, you leave a tip.
Remember that the personnel are on less than standard minimum wage as restaurants are allowed to pay their employees less than for example an office puke on the same shift.
30 euros a head is still quite a lot. A very good meal can be had from menus for 14 to 20 euros, and I can take my whole family out (6 people) for between 60 and 110 euros - generally depending how drunk i get ;) ).
God knows where you friend went to run up such a bill - this is generally what I pay in a month for lunch (ok, not in Paris but Levallois Perret, 500 yards from the Périphérique) on the immediate outskirts of Paris.
The only time I ran up the equivalent of a $100 a head meal was in Helsinki, on a mission for the French Post Office where myself and a Danish collegue got completly hammered - all on the tab of the French Government ;)