What would you tip on a $6 eggs and toast breakfast?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenner and let her keep the change if you carry cash. $5 tip on a card. Make her day a little brighter for a couple extra bucks. Who cares.

She messed up a simple order.

I would have sent the toast back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenner and let her keep the change if you carry cash. $5 tip on a card. Make her day a little brighter for a couple extra bucks. Who cares.

She messed up a simple order.

I would have sent the toast back.

I would have eaten the toast, because I like butter even if I ordered it dry to be healthier. But then I would have tipped as if it had been right.

On the other hand, if it was something important to me (e.g. syrup on something, since I hate syrup), I would have sent it back and then tipped as if it was correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's OK to leave $2. At that price point, it's the gesture that counts.

Also, please ignore the crazy people who pay nearly as much on a tip than on the order. That is very far beyond social expectations, and it really doesn't increase their odds of getting into Heaven (or whatever virtue signaling they're angling for).

For the server working extra hard to put together an income out of those small tips, it's not just a gesture.

If I order a meal that costs a lot less than the restaurant typically serves, then I will pay a tip closer to normal for that restaurant. So, if I take up a table to eat alone, and choose something cheap. Or if I take my kid out and he eats from the kid's menu and I just have water (this happened sometimes when we traveled as I get motion sickness and don't want dinner), I'll pay a tip that would be enough for 2 regular meals. I don't care about the "social expectation". I pay so that my server, who did nothing wrong, goes home with the same level of pay they would if they got the customer before or after me.

Cool.

Practically no one else does this. The people who tip normal amounts don't do anything wrong either. A tip is OPTIONAL, and the server's private life is not really your, or anyone else's business.

So before you get all emotional over your own virtuous good works, PP, just remind yourself that you are not that important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's OK to leave $2. At that price point, it's the gesture that counts.

Also, please ignore the crazy people who pay nearly as much on a tip than on the order. That is very far beyond social expectations, and it really doesn't increase their odds of getting into Heaven (or whatever virtue signaling they're angling for).

For the server working extra hard to put together an income out of those small tips, it's not just a gesture.

If I order a meal that costs a lot less than the restaurant typically serves, then I will pay a tip closer to normal for that restaurant. So, if I take up a table to eat alone, and choose something cheap. Or if I take my kid out and he eats from the kid's menu and I just have water (this happened sometimes when we traveled as I get motion sickness and don't want dinner), I'll pay a tip that would be enough for 2 regular meals. I don't care about the "social expectation". I pay so that my server, who did nothing wrong, goes home with the same level of pay they would if they got the customer before or after me.

Cool.

Practically no one else does this. The people who tip normal amounts don't do anything wrong either. A tip is OPTIONAL, and the server's private life is not really your, or anyone else's business.

So before you get all emotional over your own virtuous good works, PP, just remind yourself that you are not that important.

OP asked what people would do. I answered what I would do. I don't know why you think policing what other people do or say is appropriate.

[Anonymous]

I would have tipped $2

[Anonymous]

1-2$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is it page 2 and no one has asked where we can also get eggs and toast at a restaurant for $6? Is it in 1995?

Not OP but here:
https://www.tasteediner.com/menu/bethesda-menu/

[Anonymous]

I would leave at least $2-3. If I paid in cash, and the service was fine, I’d just leave $10 and let them keep the change. I tend to over tip for inexpensive orders since the service is the same as a more expensive order would be. The buttered toast wouldn’t bother me — since I’d happily eat it. I also wouldn’t skimp on a tip for what might have been the kitchen’s mistake, and I genuinely wouldn’t expect waitstaff to double check something like that if the order otherwise seemed fine. If I didn’t want the buttered toast and asked that it be replaced, the tip would be the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's OK to leave $2. At that price point, it's the gesture that counts.

Also, please ignore the crazy people who pay nearly as much on a tip than on the order. That is very far beyond social expectations, and it really doesn't increase their odds of getting into Heaven (or whatever virtue signaling they're angling for).

For the server working extra hard to put together an income out of those small tips, it's not just a gesture.

If I order a meal that costs a lot less than the restaurant typically serves, then I will pay a tip closer to normal for that restaurant. So, if I take up a table to eat alone, and choose something cheap. Or if I take my kid out and he eats from the kid's menu and I just have water (this happened sometimes when we traveled as I get motion sickness and don't want dinner), I'll pay a tip that would be enough for 2 regular meals. I don't care about the "social expectation". I pay so that my server, who did nothing wrong, goes home with the same level of pay they would if they got the customer before or after me.

Cool.

Practically no one else does this. The people who tip normal amounts don't do anything wrong either. A tip is OPTIONAL, and the server's private life is not really your, or anyone else's business.

So before you get all emotional over your own virtuous good works, PP, just remind yourself that you are not that important.

I do the exact same thing. I like to leave generous tips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I was paying cash in this situation, I would probably just leave $10 on the counter. If I was paying card, I'd probably pay $8. But realistically, I wouldn't eat out for what you describe. I would not pay $6 for 2 eggs and a piece of bread.

$6 is cheap! It costs $6 for one of those crummy frozen microwaved Starbucks eggs sandwiches/wraps.

Yeah, my point was that I would not purchase this breakfast in a restaurant at all. $10 will get you a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread and you can have this breakfast every morning for 2 weeks.

If I'm traveling and don't have access to my own eggs and bread, I'd choose something else.

You and your reasons for not eating the meal is not significant or relevant to the conversation, so just give it up.

OP is not you and asked a question. Since your answer is completely off-topic, just skip the thread and don't bother with your non-answer that no one else but you cares about.