Drink is important to me, I often need two to three refills with a meal, and I don't like to eat if I don't have drink to wash it down with, I think it has something to do with my mother not letting me have drink until I finished my food as a child, if I don't have drink I get irritated, and when that happens tips shrink.
I work as a hostess and have a lot of server friends so I understand what tips mean to a waiter/ waitress.
Because of that, I tip 15% and add extra, the amount depending on how great the service is- how prompt and pleasant the person is.
If a server is just awful- never present and/ or extremely rude, then I only give them 10%.
I've had a waiter drop a carving knife down the back of my dress. Didn't affect the tip though he gave me free dessert! My husband did get angry once at the Saltgrass when the manager kept coming out to talk to us and would crouch down next to my chair so his face was at perfect boob level; unfortunately it was the waiter who got stiffed. The only thing that makes consider lowering the tip is when the wait person refers to us as "You guys"; I don't know why but I really hate that.
I tip on a sliding scale of 1% to 100%. Having a set percentage is too boring. I rarely tip low as long as there is some semblance of effort. But if there's no effort, I'm not afraid to tip 1% and make sure they notice I only tipped that much.
On the other hand, if you just STFU and try, I usually tip pretty well.
Man I remember one time at the Chillis this chick had the biggest breasts that were just hanging out everywhere, and she kept having to lean over to give us our plates or refill our drinks, I'm pretty sure she got a big tip...
1) Slow service
2) Bad at ude
3) Waiting too long for the check
"Do you know what this is? Its the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses."
When I get white gravy, when I asked for brown gravy on my chicken fried steak
I am a generous tipper- because I can be; because I never had to work as a waitress and I am grateful; and because my bill is usually not that much. And it can have its perks, as well. I have only ever had one bar that I went to- not a big bar person- and I tipped well the first couple of times that I went there. I never paid to drink there again. I have regular places to eat and when you tip well they get to know you.
Someone I know told me that I should only tip the same amount as the sales tax. I was like, that's only 9% or so.
great thread for me since i wait tables, lol!
"Do you know what this is? Its the world's smallest violin playing just for the waitresses."
YEAAAH!!! EM'!!! today some emo boi was flirting with girls at work while im waiting for my ing food...i wanted to slap his stoopid haircut off his fat head...but there was a cop there so....
I start with a baseline of 15%. As the service is good, the percentage goes up. As the service is bad, the percentage goes down.
me too...i call it the "tip-o-meter"...and, sadly, it tends to go down. i usually start at 20%. i rarely give it.
I'm pretty laid-back....so it's hard for me not to tip well.
Even if the service is bad i still do tip, however if they absolutely blow then ill jut give them like a couple of bucks depending on my overall ticket.
At ude is number one. Lousy at ude= lousy tip.
Seeing your wait person standing around talking to co workers while you are either in need of assistance or have a question is a huge pet peeve of mine. I worked in restaurants from ages of 13 to 27, and waited tables for 9 yrs off and on and I was damn good at it, so I expect the same treatment that I gave my customers. If I get great service and the wait person acts like he/she is interested in giving us great service, then I tip 20-25%.
This reminds me of the thread eriks started awhile back about people who gulp their tea down to get more and then don't touch it. It quickly devolved into an argument over what makes you lessen the tip you give. That thread was funny:
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...ighlight=eriks
asians rarely tipand its not common down under in australia...
i only tip the silver coins and any cash or gold coins i used as poker money or petrol money
I tip well, especially if it's someplace that I frequent. I had a restaurant back home that I went to at least once a week, same waitress (Becky) every time. She got at least a 50% tip every time.
One of my pet peeves is when I've just received my food and the waitress drops the bill at my table. Giving you the bill is like saying, "I'm done with you." I just started eating!
They can serve me anytime, and anywhere.
For me a lot of it comes down to expectations for the restaurant. I basically always tip something, it's just the right thing to do. That being said, I always give more leeway for delays, missed orders and the like at everyday restaurants and hole in the walls than I do at more fine dining establishments.
Ah, the insults being tossed in that thread...
I wonder what happened to pache. She must be choking down her dry-ass food and yelling at her waiter to behave somewhere.
*BUMP* this pic again
I love them
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