How many still tip waiters and waitresses at 20% or more?

[LCH]

I’m a decent tipper, but I rarely think about the %.

Why should a family who orders the BOGO chicken strips and water tip less than the family where everyone orders a porterhouse and drinks? Or why should a waitress at a cheap diner get tipped less than a waitress at a more expensive restaurant?

I tip what I think they earned, sometimes a lot more than 20%, sometimes it’s less.

 

[FairWeather]

My biggest issue with tipping is why should the patron be responsible to fix the failure of the employer? If being able to afford to live is dependent on the generosity of others, you’re being exploited. Form a union, force the employer to pay better wages.

The other side of the coin are the states that have reasonable minimum wages (and most bartenders make above that anyway), and the service industry is fighting against getting rid of tips because they’re making a killing through exploiting the customers with their whole guilt/shame scheme. And now it bleeding into every industry, getting utterly ridiculous. I’ve seen tipping options for the check out at stores more and more frequently. Tip you for what, ringing up the items that I shopped for?

Either scenario, it’s all entitlement and greed. How about instead we use those tax dollars we’re already spending to provide for people’s basic needs so we don’t have to have this stupid mandatory “gratuity” for people to live with dignity, aka the solution most other western countries have managed to figure out.

 

[LuketheDog]

I usually tip about 20% for servers and go up or down, but that's for servers, not for someone at a register who takes an order and hands me something over the counter without moving their feet. That being said, eating out in the Denver Metro has gotten stupid expensive so we don't eat out that much anymore.

 

[howl]

I tipped extra during that mess, but not now. 20% is only for perfect service. Usually 15%, but if I have to walk my check to the cashier it's 10%.

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[F250]

I usually tip 20%. However, I have been known to leave $.50 to a rude, lazy, or inattentive server… just to send a message.

 

[jwatts]

I tip around 20% then round up to the nearest dollar in most cases. However, a lot of the places now have the suggested tip amounts that start at 25%. I went to a concert a few weeks ago, paid $11 for a can of beer, and the pad the woman spun around for me to pay had suggestions for 25, 20, and 35% tips. There's no way I'm paying that kind of tip on an already grossly overpriced beer that someone literally grabbed from a cooler. I'm going to tip better if someone actually waits on me vs me standing at a counter telling them what number meal I want then walking away after I fix my own drink.

 

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I have a feeling your after more than the tip

 

[LuketheDog]

I'm usually around 25%. I go out to eat for convenience and relaxation, not to save money. If I can drop $25 on a burger, I can leave a $6 tip

There's no hamburger/fries combo in the world worth spending $25 on...

 

[TOGIE]

20% always unless stuff goes awry.

for the handful of restaurants we really love and frequent i often do more every time without question - i want those places to succeed and the employees to be happy.

for those same restaurants we really love and frequent i also tip 10-15% for takeout every time, for the same reasons, i want those places to continue to succeed and the employees to be happy.

 

[rideold]

Sure, 20% for a sit down meal where my food is brought to me and cleared off at the end. 20% for a counter serve....only if they do a great job. I get it that working in the food industry isn't well paid and it's hard work but in the town I live in it costs so much to go out that affording the meal and the tip is a once-a-month event...if that. Even the local pub down the street will set my wife and I back a fair amount. Burgers are $18 or $19 and a beer is $9. By the time you add 9% tax and 20% tip you're pushing $75 for a simple night out.

 

[thomas89]

I give where I give. I refuse to do the "round up."

Curmudgeon, me.

David
NM

I accidentally hit the "yes" button once, took me a few seconds to hit "accept" on the next screen, didn't want to be THAT cheap to try to get them to take the thirty cents or whatever it was off.

 

[noharleyyet]

I try to tip cash relative to service. Attitude and competence matters but keep in mind, they're handling your consumables. If the experience doesn't warrant gratuity or otherwise grinds your gears, don't patronize. I can live just fine w/o Starbucks.

 

[Bigjay73]

There's no hamburger/fries combo in the world worth spending $25 on...

There are, and they're unbelievable

 

[FamilyMan]

I tip based on service. I'm old enough to remember when some wait staff would go out of their way to make dining out enjoyable. These days that doesn't happen much. They just expect to be tipped because they are there, whether they are going the extra mile or not.

I'll start at 15% and everyone goes up or down from there. I am always very pleasant and explain how I want my drink when I order. If the refill doesn't come the same way, or I have to remind you, the tip automatically goes down because you simply aren't trying at that point. But, its just as easy to get the tip to go up if you show you are making an effort.

Once left a tip of $0.01 for a horrible waitress who had the gall to insult our child (who wasn't behaving badly)!!

 

[Laszlo Cravensworth]

Most restaurants around here the tip goes to a lot more than just the servers. I've never worked food service, but have a lot of friends and family that do. The majority of them split tips with the crew.

20% minimum from me unless the service was trash. Counter service may be slightly less (18% if your beers are $7+), but in the majority of those situations I don't see how it's different if a server took your order at the table and walked 20 ft vs took your order at the counter. Dish pit and kitchen staff do the same thing, and the order was still entered.

 

[Nick87]

Most restaurants around here the tip goes to a lot more than just the servers. I've never worked food service, but have a lot of friends and family that do. The majority of them split tips with the crew.

That's how it works for the wife and most places I believe.

 

[rjthehunter]

As many here do, I tip based on service. I've sat down in a restaurant and ordered a drink, gotten said drink, ordered food, then didn't see the waitress again for over an hour until the food came out. I would've had 2-3 drinks in that time.

I'm usually 15-20% on tips. I'll do more if the server does an exceptional job. I will also do less if the server does terrible.

I'm not tipping for takeout, or anywhere I'm picking up food. IE firehouse, subway, or any drive-thru.The audacity to hand me a credit card reader through a drive-thru with "select tip amount" on it. You checked me out, I'm not tipping you. I don't give the guy at scheels $20 at the cash register because he scanned my goods and took my money.

 

[SaskHunter]

I personally think tipping has gotten out of hands, here anyway. Servers must make minimum wage which is $17.75/hr. Tipping at a sit down restaurant is usually 10-20%. I don't tip for anything I have to walk up to the counter to order myself or fast food.

I think employers should pay their employees a liveable wage, I don't see why customer's paying habits should be the reason whether or not a server makes a liveable wage, tips should be bonus.

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