Do you leave a small or large tip in restaurants? Or none at all.

LadyEmeraude

LadyEmeraude

You may call me EM 😊
then there are the coffee shops too, do you like to leave a tip there?
 

I tend to leave a minimal tip for coffee shop drinks, they are so expensive at times
already. Restaurants, I always leave a 15 % tip.. If the service has been poor, and
or the food it not up to par, I would already have made mention of it to my server.
If the service and food are very good, then so is my tip of appreciation.
 
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I try to be generous, I know the wait staff in most places depend on tips for their income.

I don't like the system, but not tipping people who need the money is the wrong way to protest it.

Maybe once or twice in my life service so bad I didn't leave a tip. That was long ago, I am not so judgmental today. I am more generous for good service.
 

The waiting staff in the Uk are not reliant on Tips to make a wage.. they get paid a salary like everyone else.. but most people will tip around 20% depending on the size of the Bill

The drawback of not relying on tips to make their wages, is that in many places they feel no compulsion to be very pleasant or helpful... . Of course of the 2 options I'd always want them to be paid a fair salary and not rely on tips... but I wish they didn't feel that they're doing us a favour by serving us ..
 
I tip based on the service received. If they were great, I tip 25% or more. If they were average, I tip 15%. If the service was poor, I tip -0-, and leave a note on the ticket for the management to read. I will mention the food quality or preparation if it was bad, but I do not cut a tip for that.
 
Any place i pick up my food up at counter---i don't tip unless the people behind counter are very helpful, listen well and are friendly--then i'll put a couple of singles in any tip jar by register---tho if i could give to just the ones that particularly good i'd likely give more. For table service i usually tip minimum of 20%, but that can be reduced by their behaviors. My Mom did a lot of waitress work over the years and i've worked both gourmet restaurants and 'greasy spoon' diners in my 20s---i know the job well. While in most cases the server isn't to blame for delayed seating, how long the food takes or it's quality, there are times when a server does not do things efficiently.
 
Unless the service is way below par, I leave 20%. If the service is excellent, I'll tip more.

I'll never forget being out to dinner in an upscale restaurant where my husband and I were having dinner. The waiter was not only inattentive, he was downright surly. My husband had enough of his attitude and asked him if he knew what "tip" stood for. The waiter said he knew. My husband then told him, "So far, you're up to about a quarter."

A friend of mine waited tables in a lovely restaurant along the canal. He was working his butt off waiting on a large table of about ten people when my girlfriend and I walked in to have a late lunch. As we were eating, the table of ten got up to leave. When my friend went over to the table and saw the change that was left for him on the tip tray, he picked up the little tray, and right in front of them, he flicked the change right into the canal.

Another time, he followed a patron who had left him a pittance after good service. As the guy was leaving, he gave him back his tip and said, "You need this more than I do."

Unfortunately, restaurants aren't required to pay waiters a decent wage, so they depend on tips to live. It's wrong to under-tip or stiff servers who give you good service. If you can't afford a decent tip, then you shouldn't eat out.

Bella ✌️
 
When the service is good, I like to leave a generous tip. If the service is not the greatest, I'll leave the lowest percentage now shown on the receipts (% options are listed). Last time I took my family out, I tipped more than the 22% on the slip.
 
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I routinely give 15%. But, I hate tipping. The idea that my napkin was askew, so they don't get a tip is outdated. Who is more responsible for the service in a restaurant? the person, who brings your plate, or the person who owns, and runs the place. Theres' no reason why customers need to supervise the staff, via tips. If the service was that bad only pay a portion of the tab, that's the best was to insure service.
 
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most the time 30 to 50 percent, my mother in law worked for years as a waitress, so I tell my wife I blame her. as of right now we can afford to do so, my daughter worked as a waitress for a few years and said "Christians" were the worst tippers. As a believer I try to set a better example, so I blame her as well. It does depend on the service, our men's group goes out to breakfast once a month and it cost like 6 bucks for breakfast so I will leave a five. when wife and i go to sit down place and bill is say 40, I will leave a 15 or so. we do not go out that much but I figure a good tip in when we do. at least a good tip in our fixed income world.
 
15% is the lowest I would leave. Usually, it's more like 20%-25%, depending on the service.
Once, many long years ago, I was in a family restaurant with my daughter. Having finished our meal, I
wanted a coffee. I waited, and waited, and waited .. there wasn't even another waitress in sight. I didn't have
a bill, so I went to where the cash register was, and paid for our dinner.

It was the only time, ever, that I didn't leave a tip.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
But, I hate tipping. The idea that my napkin was askew, so they don't get a tip is outdated. Who is more responsible for the service in a restaurant? the person, who brings your plate, or the person who owns, and runs the place. Thers' no reason why customers need to supervise the staff, via tips.
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I agree with this so much! I hate the whole idea of paying the restaurant owner's staff for them, or the idea that some people have to depend upon the kindness of strangers for a living wage. All workers should get minimum wage, period. As a bank loan officer it was very hard to determine what sort of loan a waiter could afford because of the unreliability of their income, any type of budgeting is hard for them.

I also get tired of hearing, "They work hard for their money," as though store clerks, bank tellers, data processors, cashiers, janitors, and telemarketers don't. I've had all those jobs and waitress was not the hardest. Yet no one ever thinks of giving those others a tip.

The whole tipping thing also puts women in a very uncomfortable position as far as the flirting sometimes required and competition with other (often younger, less pretty women.) It's time we put a stop to the whole demeaning business.

In the meantime, I usually tip about 20%, but I never feel good about it.
 
I'm a 20% tipper unless the service is extremely bad or extremely good.

I have never understood the concept of the amount of tip being determined by the bill. If I order a $2 bowl of broth and my dining partner orders a $10 bowl of lobster bisque and the waiter brings them together, why would my companion's tip at 20% be $2 and mine only 40 cents? It's the same "effort" for both (NOTE: this is just theoretical, as I'd never tip 40 cents in a restaurant).

That said, I did leave a nickel tip once for an exceptionally surly waiter who wanted to argue vigorously with us about whether we had had two Cokes, when the visual evidence on the table showed two glasses partly filled with water and one glass with the dregs of Coke left. He would not quit arguing but finally took the second Coke off the bill (at $3, per Coke and no refill, I WASN'T paying for a drink I didn't have).
 
ronaldj said:
most the time 30 to 50 percent, my mother in law worked for years as a waitress, so I tell my wife I blame her. as of right now we can afford to do so, my daughter worked as a waitress for a few years and said "Christians" were the worst tippers. As a believer I try to set a better example, so I blame her as well. It does depend on the service, our men's group goes out to breakfast once a month and it cost like 6 bucks for breakfast so I will leave a five. when wife and i go to sit down place and bill is say 40, I will leave a 15 or so. we do not go out that much but I figure a good tip in when we do. at least a good tip in our fixed income world.
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what ?... I'm totally at a loss here as an ex waitress myself in my youth.. how on earth can someone know if a customer is a Christian or not ?
 
I cook my own meals and do my own dishes. I keep away from restaurants like the Black Death. I'm hard pressed to remember the last time I ate a meal in a restaurant but it sure was a long, long time ago. I guess those masks turned me into some sort of "Restaurant Hater."
 
Packerjohn said:
I cook my own meals and do my own dishes. I keep away from restaurants like the Black Death. I'm hard pressed to remember the last time I ate a meal in a restaurant but it sure was a long, long time ago. I guess those masks turned me into some sort of "Restaurant Hater."
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I'm not familiar with the Black Death restaurant chain ?... what is their speciality.. ? :sneaky:😇
 
hollydolly said:
lol... well there would have to be a lot of them to make such an assumption.. I remember when I was a waitress people would come in after church, I never found them to be any better or worse at tipping..
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This was a large hotel. There were lots of conventions and Sunday afternoon regulars. It was often lower than average. Not always.

I still remember, after all these decades, a priest and minister who spent a leisurely lunch having martinis. They left a great tip.
 
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