How much would you tip on a $53 bill?

[Anonymous]

The drinks were prepped by the bartender not the server, correct? Was it at arestaurant where the dmservers collectively share the tips with the bartender, bus boys, each other?

15%. The service was great which is the norm as is the 15% that goes with it.

[Anonymous]

$11 or $12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get a lot of bad tippers. The way they tip has nothing to do with service they received. They even say how much they loved it and then 17-15% max. We get lots of older folks who seem to think that 15% is great, foreigners who only pay what the last line says and young people on budget. We already know who tips and who doesn't and try to give the tables away. If you don't tip, I have to use my tip from another table to pay bartender, busser and food runner.
Sunday customers are the worst.
OP, why don't you tell your friend or co-worker to tip better. One day a server will tell him/her in front of everybody.
Another PP, you are probably right," no one is entitled to a tip", and you are not entitled to keep my table busy without paying for it. I don't come to your work and keep you from making money. Don't tell me that there are plenty of empty tables, those are not my tables.
People are so clueless. Best is when they come sit down and say that it's lent and they don't eat or that they are not hungry. Go sit in a bathroom even though you don't need to go. At least I can make money.

Please, tell customers this and see how that works for you.

I prefer to pay more in taxes for an expanded social net, than having to pay a tip. If you tell me I'm not tipping enough, I will laugh at you, and perhaps tell the manager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get a lot of bad tippers. The way they tip has nothing to do with service they received. They even say how much they loved it and then 17-15% max. We get lots of older folks who seem to think that 15% is great, foreigners who only pay what the last line says and young people on budget. We already know who tips and who doesn't and try to give the tables away. If you don't tip, I have to use my tip from another table to pay bartender, busser and food runner.
Sunday customers are the worst.
OP, why don't you tell your friend or co-worker to tip better. One day a server will tell him/her in front of everybody.
Another PP, you are probably right," no one is entitled to a tip", and you are not entitled to keep my table busy without paying for it. I don't come to your work and keep you from making money. Don't tell me that there are plenty of empty tables, those are not my tables.
People are so clueless. Best is when they come sit down and say that it's lent and they don't eat or that they are not hungry. Go sit in a bathroom even though you don't need to go. At least I can make money.

Please, tell customers this and see how that works for you.

I prefer to pay more in taxes for an expanded social net, than having to pay a tip. If you tell me I'm not tipping enough, I will laugh at you, and perhaps tell the manager.

My wife was dining with a coworker and her coworker's trashy sister. They were celebrating a major accomplishment of the coworker's, and my wife told the sister she would cover the meal if the sister would cover the tip. Unbeknownst to either of them, the sister put a dollar or two in as a tip on a $80+ meal, and as they were walking out the server confronted them and publicly berated them all for the measly tip. Not wanting to cause a scene, they left without saying anything but sent an email to the manager afterwards. The manager responded with $150 in gift certificates and an assurance that the server had been fired. They certainly hadn't asked for any of that, but managers take it VERY seriously when you humiliate customers in public regardless of whether they deserve it or not.

[Anonymous]

$11

[Anonymous]

My wife was dining with a coworker and her coworker's trashy sister. They were celebrating a major accomplishment of the coworker's, and my wife told the sister she would cover the meal if the sister would cover the tip. Unbeknownst to either of them, the sister put a dollar or two in as a tip on a $80+ meal, and as they were walking out the server confronted them and publicly berated them all for the measly tip. Not wanting to cause a scene, they left without saying anything but sent an email to the manager afterwards. The manager responded with $150 in gift certificates and an assurance that the server had been fired. They certainly hadn't asked for any of that, but managers take it VERY seriously when you humiliate customers in public regardless of whether they deserve it or not.



Wow. If I had been your wife or the coworker, I would have apologized and given a better tip. So the server was wrong to confront, but got cheated of her tip and then fired. That would leave a very bad taste in my mouth.

[Anonymous]

$10-11. I always start at 20% (easy math) and may add a little more if a server did something really unecessary and good (for example, server didn't upcharge me for changing an entree side from fries to a mac and cheese side when she should've, the side would be 2.5yo DD's dinner when kid's meal was too much food, and then provided a warm wet hand towel for DD afterwards without being asked for it.)

[Anonymous]

$0. I usually slide in a bible verse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$0. I usually slide in a bible verse.

Same here, except on the bill, I write, "There will be no money, but when you die, on your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So you got that goin' for you, which is nice."

[Anonymous]

$10.60

[Anonymous]

While this is a worthy discussion, the original post was written over a year ago and was revived today somewhere around page 5. What an odd thread to revive?

[Anonymous]

15-20% depending on how great the service was. So anywhere from 8-12 bucks.

[Xymox]

10 or 11 dollars.

[Anonymous]

15% like always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd have left 61 or 62 total. That's 15% and that is what I grew up with and that's fair to me. I refuse to get suckered into the higher tip percentages. The food and drinks are also a lot more expensive than they were years ago so don't give me that crap about cost of living justifying paying 20 or 25% tips over 15% tips.

They should get rid of tipping completely. Just pay the staff a standard wage. We now live overseas where there is a minimal tip culture and if one does exist it's around 5% or rounding off the bill and no one bats an eye.

Agree with 'this. The tipping culture is a big hit to the pocket for families wanting to eat out. I cap it at 15%. Refilling water and talking nice doesn't entail a tip. It's your job. People in several professions work thrice as hard with no tips and minimum wage. This is an easier job, in comparison.

Then you have no business dining out.

However I do wish 20% upcharge were built into the menu for service, so that people like the above would stay home and eat beans.