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

I’m a good tipper. It peeves me when I’m by myself and get poor service. It seems they believe that a woman won’t tip well, so why bother. Then they have proof because they received a poor tip.
 

In the UK, it is common to see a service charge applied to restaurant, café and bar bills. The charge is often 12.5% of the bill amount in London, but can span between 10% and 20% around the country.... this is often added in tiny writing to the bottom of the Bill, and many people don't even realise it's there .. and unless the customer crosses it out.. ( discretionary service charge).. the 12.5% will be taken from your credit card plus any tip you may have added...

This is not a tip, it's a Tax charged to the customer by restaurant owners.. and they make millions out of doing this to customers.. 12.5 % on £100 bill.. = £12.50... £25 if it's a £200 bill.. when you've already paid for the food and the service.. and Tipped on top... so it's something we all have to watch out for.. If you're ever in the UK particularly cities like London or Edinburgh where it's Tourist cities , check your bill, and if it says service charge on the bottom, score it out... and it will not be taken from your Card
 
I have always been a generous tipper - but ONLY when the service is decent, which it usually is.
I'm thinking, "Waiters & waitresses probably work harder than I do & the restaurant owners probably pay them cheap in anticipation of their tips to make up the difference."
BUT when the service is lousy.......oh, boy......I surprise myself.
 
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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Christians don't have to tip cuz......God will provide. :ROFLMAO:
 
IKE said:
Mama says that I'm always a cheap charlie when it comes to tipping so I head to the front desk to pay the bill and she takes care of the tip.

BTW, I'm not cheap I'm just frugal. :)
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Good for Mama. :)

On dates, I've paid the tip willingly more than once. In fact, I'd insist on it. A few guys were notorious "cheap charlies". That annoyed me, especially if they insisted on leaving the tip after I offered to pay it. There were times I simply reached into my purse and laid more money on the table after they'd "tipped." :rolleyes:

Back in the day, my best girlfriend worked at a great little Italian restaurant. My date asked me where I wanted to go to dinner. He loved Italian food, so I took him there. It just so happened we were seated at my girlfriend's station. He knew our waitress was my good friend. At the end of the meal, he left a paltry tip. As he got up from the table, I reached into my purse and laid $20.00 on the table. He looked at me. I looked at him. The end... of him. It might have ended better if he'd taken me up on my offer to leave the tip in the first place. Oh, well, c'est la vie. 😏

Bella ✌️
 
I always leave a nice tip. The son worked as a server thru high school and college. Thing is that that tips go into a pool and at the end of night, each person gets the same cut. I decided that was not fair, poor workers got the same as the people who worked really hard to do a good job. I now track down a good server and slip them some cash, tell them this just for you, you work hard and deserve it. Not for the tip pool, just for you!!
 
Xtra-Large. My mother was a waitress after she was divorced from my father. He had to go on SSI due to Parkinson's disease, so no alimony or financial support at all.

2 kids to support, only a HS education. The only job she could get was as a hostess at a local restaurant. She brushed up on her old skills learned from a long-ago HS summer job, got on the floor as a waitress.

We lived on her tips for four years.

Never realized how poor we really were until I was out on my own.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
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.
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If the food is bad, that is not the fault of the wait staff.
 
International Drive is a hugely popular tourist area in Orlando, full of attractions, restaurants and gift shops.

European visitors are used to the tip being included in the tab, so they tended not to tip separately. So, a lot of the restaurants started adding a "service charge" to the tab to ensure the waitstaff got tipped. A lot of American visitors didn't notice the service charge and tipped, thus "double-tipping". Definitely a win-win for the waitstaff.....
 
I have always been interested in waitress tipping. I usually pay 20% no matter what. Many other professions require tipping to make ends meet. There is the taxi driver, bartender, food delivery, and casino dealers to name a few jobs that have a very low hourly wage and need tips. I was curious about how this "practice" began and found this bit about tipping history.

Here's the Troubling History Behind Tipping Practices in the U.S.

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"Tipping wasn’t always part of the U.S. dining landscape — and scholars who have studied its origins point out that its oft-debated role in the modern economy isn’t the only thing potentially troubling about tips.


In the earliest days of the practice, its spread was linked to the racial oppression of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.

The idea of giving someone money for their work isn’t one that really needs an origin story, but modern American tipping — the practice of the customer giving a gratuity on top of the money that the employee gets from his or her employer — does have a beginning. (As for the word itself, many are familiar with the tale that “To Insure Promptness” was a phrase written on dishes for coins at shops, thus creating the acronym of “tip,” but that’s just a myth.) Some accounts credit European travelers with bringing the custom to the U.S.; others credit American travelers with bringing tipping back from Europe. The truth? Wealthy Americans in the 1850s and 1860s discovered the tradition, which had originated in medieval times as a master-serf custom wherein a servant would receive extra money for having performed superbly well, on vacations in Europe. Wanting to seem aristocratic, these individuals began tipping in the United States upon their return."

3 min. read

https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/
 
Having worked as a waitress to help defer expenses of getting a degree plus knowing how poorly waiters/waitresses are paid, I tend to tip generously. Unless service is rreally horrible, I don't tend to punish poor service. Even poor servers have families why need to eat and have a roof over their heads. When you punish the server in that way, you are also indirectly punishing their innocent family.
 

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

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LadyEmeraude said:
then there are the coffee shops too, do you like to leave a tip there?
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Yes

Of late.....when we do eat out.....I am a generous tipper

Anybody working those jobs earn it

If the service is lousy, I watch the wait staff
Usually, they're busting their butts
Usually, due to being short staffed

These are tough times

I never use my debit card to pay for the tips or a meal

I give the cash tip direct to the waiter/waitress
To ensure THEY get it

Then I pay cash for just the food and drinks up at the counter
no matter what tip percentage is showing on the check
Sometimes there's a discussion about the total
That's when our wait person becomes my backup
 

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