How much do you tip at restaurants?

[Anonymous]

Stopped doing any dine-in in DC.

[Anonymous]

I tip 20 - 30% at casual and mid-range restaurants. I rarely eat at high-end restaurants, but when I do I think it’s ridiculous to tip 25% on a bill that’s overpriced and required no more work than a server at Cracker Barrel. Fine dining I tip 15 - 20%.

[Anonymous]

I use 20% as a base, but I adjust as needed. I go out to breakfast alone a few times a month and I always leave at least $7 because 20% on breakfast isn't going to amount to much.

[Anonymous]

0% go to. But if required I will do the minimum requirement. I never understood tipping culture. This is coming from a former server btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We switched from 15% to 20% during Covid to help our restaurants stay open (even when it was take-out only).

But now most of the restaurants in my quaint tourist town have started adding 4% if a credit card is used, and have increased menu prices several times a year.

So we are back to 15% for most, occasionally 20% if exceptional service.

The worst was a fancy counter ordering restaurant (great gourmet food!) that proudly said they paid all employees a living wage of at least $20-$22/hr. Then after ordering they verbally ask you if you want to leave a 15% tip. Nope! I'm standing in line to order, getting my own drink, condiments, utensils, then clearing my dirty plates.

None of that goes to the staff.

True, the 4% credit fee doesn't go to the wait staff. It offsets the owner's business fees.

But we upped from 15% to 20% to be "generous" during covid. Now with the 4% owner's increase, we are choosing to go back to being standard, not generous.

[Anonymous]

The bigger problem right now is that the workers we have now don't compare to what to workers we had 25 years ago. The business has to have extra 1-2 servers to do the same job, but service still suffers. They are on the phone, playing/horsing around, arguing about tables instead of going there, and something else I'd rather not mention, because parents would be up in arms. It is so hard to find good workers. The resumes we get are horrific with 10 job changes in short time.
Please come out to drink and eat. When it comes to tipping, do whatever. We give most people a chance to work, but this also means we get many bad apples.

This is from page 1 and I'm the first to ask?!

[Anonymous]

30%. But if they include 18-20% gratuity then I won't tip any extra.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you the same person who posts this topic every few months? The answer is always the same. People generally tip about 20% at sit-down restaurants. People are starting to revert back to pre-covid times and are not tipping as much if at all at fast casual / fast food places.