I have been to Milagro quite a few times and have always enjoyed the food and service. But last Sunday when I visited Milagro (Mercer) I had a rather annoying experience. I went with 3 other friends and at the end we decided to split the bill where some of us paid cash and then some paid by card. Judging from the server we felt he really was not too happy with the way the bill was split. And from the way things were unfolding we figured that he was worried about his tip. He mentioned the word "tip" almost 10 times in the 2 minutes he was trying to explain how the split works. BTW this is not our first time splitting a bill in a restaurant and its not rocket science. We had thought of paying for the bill, and then pay for the tip separately. Not knowing it he kept on mentioning the importance of tipping and how splitting the bill might reduce the tip amount. For a while we were rather frazzled not understanding why he was going on about the tip. This made him not have a reduced amount of tip but rather a bad experience of coming to Milagro. I have never ever seen a server insist on a tip this many times. We are not from another world and I am willing to pay 15-20% tip based on the service, and insisting on tip is not service. Please advise your servers that this is not best customer service practice. But by judging of who the server was I think he might be the manager of the restaurant itself. I am not sure.