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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the lousy tippers, please stay home, you don't have to come out to a sit-down restaurant. We are so busy right now and rather serve the ones who are not cheap. I don't need people to overtip, but lets not be cheap either. The ones who do, thank you, because you are making up for the cheap ones.
I worked almost 11 hours yesterday non-stop. Recovering today. It would have been a good exercise in my 20s and 30s, but I'm 45.
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But what if you’re a good tipper, but base a tip on the pre-tax total?

Why should I tip more for a service not provided, merely because the jurisdiction charges a tax?  Arlington County charges a meals tax (raising the total tax to 10%); Fairfax County does not. Should a server providing the exact same service in Arlington get a better tip than a similarly situated server in Fairfax, merely because Arlington charges a higher tax?  If you’re tipping post-tax, that seems unfair to the server in Fairfax.

Tips are lot charity. I tip well, but I try to apply principles to my tips to be fair and for the tips to have meaning. For me, that means tipping more for good service but not tipping on government-imposed taxes. 
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