In Chicago restaurants I never ever had a server give me to go containers and expect me to do it myself. Ever! Until we moved to Maryland. I find it rude making me deal with all of that at the end of the meal, on a crowded table, the boxes are usually wrong/not big enough. Its lousy service and stupidly high tipping expectations, is what it is, and we’ve all just gotten used to it. Like scanning menus on our phones and ordering at the counter and being prompted to give 25-30 percent of our bill as a tip. I hate it.

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Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.

The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.

+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.

Thank you for that. Your tip makes up for the ones who short us with a dollar here and dollar there. DC doesn't have too many people who have worked in service and would tip well because of that. We do get a lot of foreigners who have no idea how to tip.

Foreigners I can understand, because tipping isn't done in a lot of countries.

The people in DC who have never worked a service job is what annoys me the most. I'm definitely making sure my kids work in service at some point before they leave the house, because it really makes you see how terribly service people are treated. My service job was probably one of the most valuable experiences I've had in life.

Not an excuse in this day and age. Everyone knows how it works. If they can figure out a plane ticket and a visa they know this. No excuses.

Nope, “Everyone “ in the whole wide world does not know “how it works” in your little corner of the world, and it not as if tipping practices are uniform and uniformly understood throughout the US. See: the dozens of questions and differences of opinion and practices on this site alone.

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Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.

The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.

+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.

Thank you for that. Your tip makes up for the ones who short us with a dollar here and dollar there. DC doesn't have too many people who have worked in service and would tip well because of that. We do get a lot of foreigners who have no idea how to tip.

Foreigners I can understand, because tipping isn't done in a lot of countries.

The people in DC who have never worked a service job is what annoys me the most. I'm definitely making sure my kids work in service at some point before they leave the house, because it really makes you see how terribly service people are treated. My service job was probably one of the most valuable experiences I've had in life.

Not an excuse in this day and age. Everyone knows how it works. If they can figure out a plane ticket and a visa they know this. No excuses.

+1 I am tired of hearing about Americans abroad who are often identified as being tourists by “smiling too much.” We read their guidebooks and agonize over white sneakers and how the hell to get our waiter to bring the bill. Let’s have a little parity and have them care about tipping properly while here.

I've always preferred to box my own leftovers.

I would rather pack up my leftovers myself because then I can leave out the stuff I don't want. Plus one time I asked to take my leftovers home and the server took them to the kitchen and they got thrown out. I was pissed because it was expensive food and would have been a great lunch the next day.

People are really demanding these days. No wonder so many people are leaving the industry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.

The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.

+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.

Thank you for that. Your tip makes up for the ones who short us with a dollar here and dollar there. DC doesn't have too many people who have worked in service and would tip well because of that. We do get a lot of foreigners who have no idea how to tip.

I've never worked a food service job and still tip well - I don't think it's required to have worked that type of job to have empathy for servers and to understand how tipping works. I think it helps to start with a mindset that everyone at the restaurant is doing their best and not be ready to be mad about something stupid, like who packs up your food (which I always prefer to do myself anyway).

My daughter works as a hostess, and I cannot believe how rude some people are to her and the other staff.

Anonymous wrote:Doggy bags are uncouth

What’s uncouth is food waste.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.

The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.

+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.

Thank you for that. Your tip makes up for the ones who short us with a dollar here and dollar there. DC doesn't have too many people who have worked in service and would tip well because of that. We do get a lot of foreigners who have no idea how to tip.

Foreigners I can understand, because tipping isn't done in a lot of countries.

The people in DC who have never worked a service job is what annoys me the most. I'm definitely making sure my kids work in service at some point before they leave the house, because it really makes you see how terribly service people are treated. My service job was probably one of the most valuable experiences I've had in life.

Not an excuse in this day and age. Everyone knows how it works. If they can figure out a plane ticket and a visa they know this. No excuses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.

The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.

+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.

Thank you for that. Your tip makes up for the ones who short us with a dollar here and dollar there. DC doesn't have too many people who have worked in service and would tip well because of that. We do get a lot of foreigners who have no idea how to tip.

Foreigners I can understand, because tipping isn't done in a lot of countries.

The people in DC who have never worked a service job is what annoys me the most. I'm definitely making sure my kids work in service at some point before they leave the house, because it really makes you see how terribly service people are treated. My service job was probably one of the most valuable experiences I've had in life.

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My high school job at McDonalds opened my eyes to people who worked harder than I have ever had to.