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An offhand question: What, if anything do you tip as a standard? Do you tip if you had bad service, or just tip poorly? Do you tip folks b/c it's Christmas?

I try to give about 15% if the service is all right, 20% if it's good. I hate forced tipping that's built into the service, as I think I should reserve the right to not tip if you sucked ***, and I don't tip folks b/c it's Christmas.

I tip 20%, 15% if the service is pretty poor. I've never had service so bad I didn't want to leave a tip.

I don't do anything special for the holidays, though my builder super is getting a big ol' bottle of X-X-Xmas booze for helping me carry my crap up the stairs all year long.

Between 15%-20%, but I will always try to round up the tip so my total is a "even number".

Again, I will round up, but it will never be more than $0.50. I don't want them to think that I forgot to tip, do I?

Nope.

Oh, I plan on writing it into any contract I have to sign.

I'm bored too and I have only been at work 40 min.

The sales tax here is 8.25% so I usually just double the tax when I tip. I do adjust for Shitty service and exceptional service though. I also don't tip on take out, except for a few places where go a lot and thats mainly because they give me a litle extra like free eggrolls or a free drink while I'm waiting for my order.

Ever had a waiter/waitress complain to you about the tip?

My family went to a chinese restaurant once in Arizona. The waitress screwed up three of the orders for the seven people and complete omitted the orders for two people. She never checked on us after brining the orders out and we had to complain to the manager to straighten out the orders. The waitress then had the nerve to chase us when we left the resaurant screaming at my did that he didnt leave her a tip. Stupid Cnut.

I tend to tip 20%+. Bad service still gets a tip but I am less inclined to round up like I do with good service.

A for instance, last week we hit up a new bar in the area. The bartenders are really nice and they served some great craft brews, they were even willing to lend an ear for some beer talk . The check with food came to $36 I believe. I like round numbers and due to the good service and my generosity they got a $14 tip. A nice rule of thumb when ordering from a bartender is a dollar per drink stopping at $5 if most are just draft or opened bottles.

I had a friend in college who would start his meal planning on tipping 20%. Any time his glass was fully empty before being offered a refill, he would remove 1%. If a waiter did not check on his meal within X amount of time, another 1%.

He was a rich South Carolinian and was accustomed to restaurant's that would dedicate a waiter to each table. It was rather fun to watch him go to a place like TGI Friday's during a rush.

It depends on what sort of tip it is, I suppose. I always tip the coffeeshop staff a couple bucks per drink. Meals are usually ~20% depending on the bill, less if the service is ****. I've left pennies before without shame if I was truly disgusted with the service. I tend to slide down the scale a bit on large bills. For some reason I refuse to tip someone more than $100, it doesn't feel right. Maybe for a large party of six or more I could see that, but then I wouldn't be footing that bill usually anyhow. All of my references here are for solo or couple dining.

Breakfast I always tip very well, usually double the bill if I'm solo or $5-$10 if the bill is in the $10-$20 range. Higher than that and standard tipping ettiquette applies.

Drinks at a bar are $1 plus any change that sometimes accompanies it if the bar has stupid prices (I was at a bar where a Corona cost me $3.63 before...freaks). Rounds are $3-$5.

I don't tip extra for holidays. I hate holidays.

In the vast majority of my experiences, built in tipping has worked out rather well for me as a consumer. Perhaps it's just the establishments I've visited but I find the staff to be superior to a lot of places of equivalent quality. Also, when you do leave a small tip as a gesture of appreciation the staff is truly grateful because both parties know that it is neither expected or required. I also firmly hold the belief that the American service industry is woefully lacking and inferior to many other cultures.

Yeah this was kinda an extreme circumstance. Most Bars/Bartenders in the area don't even know what IPA stands for let alone what a good beer is. This was a kind of thank you for not being a generic BMC establishment. They do though need to work on their serving. A chilled pint with my ESB, pfft I don't think so.

Situational for me, but 15% or $2 (whichever is greater) is the usual I go by. Poor service goes down, excellent service goes up.

Oh and if they charge $ for delivery, I take that out of the tip. Having worked for the pizza business, I know that charge goes to the drivers, so what reason do I have to tip on top of that? It meant to prevent shafting, which I'm glad they do that for that reason, but since I was going to tip anyways, it doesn't apply to me.

I think the best tip I ever left was a note written on the back of the VISA receipt saying : Get out of the service industry because you fail terribly at it.

I absolutely hate bad service.

Me too. Nothing makes me angrier.

I've moved on to reading about this ferret that ate this baby's toes. Whaddya say now, ferret-lovers?