Who does not tip at all?!
 

alright you cheap sob's. who completely stiff's your service industry wait staff?
poll is anonymous.

I don't see polls on mobile, but without due cause, I doubt anyone here does....YMMV.

I don't do any of those.

Count me as an "other".

You didn't have a choice for us $20ers

I would say, give it a minute.
I also added other options that I consider vote worthy.

you have to pick one. ;)

I tip 20% + enough to round the total up to the nearest dollar. If the service is bad, I'll adjust down to either 15% or 10%. Rarely do I not tip at all, but it's happened.

I am a decent tipper, but I do NOT hold to a set percentage. We go out to eat breakfast on occasion. For good waitress that kept my coffee cup full, served my food promptly and hot, and did an overall good job I will not just tip a buck fifty (15%) I will give em 4 bucks.

Conversely when we go out to a high end restaurant and order prime rib and I get a Chimay with my food and the bill is knocking on $100 I am not going to tip fifteen to twenty bucks to someone that never refilled my water glass, and only did the minimum effort. They did less work that the breakfast server, just the food I ordered was more expensive.

My average tip for good service is 20%

I had one lunch meal that the waitress has HORRIBLE. I even walked over to her as she was flirting with the manager and told the manager it was the worst service I had received in years. It took 1.5 hours to eat at a Mexican joint that should take 30 minutes max. We never got the tortillas I asked for or the sophillas. I left a one penny tip on my credit card receipt.

^^^ Same here...I'm not in the poll though.

You guys are making my hungry with these threads.

This one is me as well. The waitress doing a great job with my $5 breakfast still has to pay the same bills as the waitress doing a great job with my $50 steak dinner. I very rarely leave nothing, but have on a few occasions for incredibly bad service. I frequently leave over 20% for great service.

I'm at 20% too. However if I'm at a bar, I will tip heavy because I will have the attention of the person serving.

If my service is bad of if the meal is over /under cooked, I will talk to a manager. A good manager will make adjustments. There have only been a few occasions where I had a bad experience, I just don't return.

That's how I met my gf. She was my bartender. lol

If I get really bad service I won't totally stiff them. I'll drop whatever change I have in my pocket on the table, minus the quarters and dimes :)

This; I don't want them thinking I forgot

I am usually pretty generous

At restaurants I generally tip 20%, I rarely get bad service and I almost like everything put in front of me. I'm happy that someone else made it for me.

At Supercuts I have a tip policy: If they trim the hair in my ears, they get a $5 buck tip which is about 30%. If they completely ignore the hair in my ears, they get zero. I want attention to detail and that is required for me at Supercuts, especially since the hair cuts sometimes are finished in less than 5 min.

Well that is reasonable as you only have two hairs on top of old baldy. Do you let your ear hair grow out so that you can do a comb over?

I usually leave a dollar if the service is good and Nothing if it bad.

I tip the other waitress. the good looking one.

But seriously I just about always leave a tip. My friends don't :(

For sit-down type service I’ll tip based on level of service (typically around 15% for decent, 20% for good, higher for great and less or nothing for poor or terrible).

I absolutely do not / will not “add a tip” for counter service places. That’s called a job and the staff is getting a paycheck for it. There’s no service involved beyond making a sandwich or coffee and / or punching some keys on a register. “Service” is something above and beyond the minimum level of effort by the business to justify charging anything at all - it’s not doing one’s job. If one goes “above and beyond” then they get special recognition for it. That’s the whole point of a tip.

I'm a 20%er but it goes down quickly if I have to wait for a drink or plates to be cleared. It's getting pretty bad though when I could have easily taken my kids to eat at McDonalds for the price of the tip I leave at some restaurants.

I tip at least 15% at a sit down/server type meal. I don't leave much if it is a buffet.

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I would love to be some of you Boyz server...I coulda retired long ago...

I rarely get service so bad that it warrants no tip at all. Maybe once in 10 years.

Most of the people at places I frequent realize that I am a good tipper, and treat me accordingly. Many of those servers are college students. I don't spend a lot at fancy restaurants, and I don't take a lot of time to dissect the service so I can justify a lesser tip. I wouldn't eat out if I couldn't afford the tip, and I don't feel the need to dine out as much as I did when I was younger and taking women out. My wife could care less about the fancy BS. A hundred for a plate of food ? Sorry, I'm usually not very impressed, and I have a discerning palate.

In my line I see a lot of people who are willing to spend a ton of money on product, they just don't want to pay for service or support. It is all about them getting, with little regard for the people who make that happen for them. I have gotten to the point where I won't work for people who treat me like a commodity that they can shop down.

Oddly, the most demanding are usually the least appreciative. That often makes them fair game for people who promise the world because they know how to deliver a lower quality and package it in premium BS. Others simply spend a lot of time screwing over the people who hand them their life, conning the honest for self gain. How bitterly they complain when the tables are turned.

I know people who treat life like it is a business. I prefer the philosophy that everything, everything, everything, is about relationship.

20% and never less than at least $3 if I'm having a dirt cheap breakfast somewhere. poor service will get 15%. I can't remember the last time we tipped -0-.

From the other side of the table we always found Canadians, black people and very old people to be lousy tippers. People who have/do work in the food service industry tend to tip well as they understand what it is to go into a gas station clerk and say '$3.87 on pump 2 please'.

I would not judge a cook by his appearance. It's a tough job with low pay and often requires actual skill. I've known some very good cooks who take their job seriously but look rough. I've known some complete bull****ters who couldn't cook their way out of a paper bag but make a point to look the part and talk a good game.

Remember often times you've got a cook making maybe $10-$12/hr who listens to wait staff complain about making 2-3x's that in cash night after night.

You're poll is poorly thought out, I won't vote.

I tip 20% or more. It's simple. Double the bill, divide by ten. Add a few more bucks if you can...

Now ask the other cheap tipper question... Do you compute tip on the tax portion?

20% rounded up to the nearest dollar.

If service is really good I'll leave a bit more (if I've been drinking and the waitress/bartender is hot, the tip will likely be really good). I figure an extra dollar to me isn't much but an extra dollar to a waiter can make an average tip a great tip.

Most of the time 20% unless service is poor and then adjusted accordingly.

In all the years I was a waiter or bartender I only got stiffed once and I saw it coming.

Older guy with a younger woman, French restaurant. Said woman was digging her some Seahawk...he wasn't.

Payback is a beotch....you shoulda stiffed her in return ;)

I would have needed a bigger, uh, paycheck:cool:

She couldn't hid her lyin' eyes.

Like most people who spent some time as a waiter or bar tending, I tend to over tip a bit, especially if they have their **** together.

We go out to eat with another couple that is even older than us, and we always have separate checks. They are in their 80s. It is usually a nice mid range place and the meals and everything is usually $50 to $60 per couple. I always leave a decent tip. He will leave a $2 tip and I know for a fact they are "very comfortable" and money is not an issue. When we eat together I leave an even bigger tip to make up for his 1950s level tip.

In az the tax is different based on Scottsdale, or Phoenix. The double, triple tax doesn't always equate to an adequate tip amount.

My ex worked as a waitress when we met and she really hustled coming home exhausted. If the meal is crap it's not the fault of the server. But being an old man that eats all of his meals alone, the cuties fight over me knowing a little kindness gets a good tip. I never stiff a server.

Right.
Common in lots of states. I did live in Prescott and Ahwatukee for a while.

My real point is that it's a minor part of the bill anyway, so why not? But I figured someone would gripe about it...

Bet you'd like to though if she was the right one!! :p

You know me so well!

Always tip 20% or more for good service. A good waiter is like a tour guide/sales person. When I go to a nice place to eat, they can tell me what dishes are really good at this establishment, Which wines to try... etc. my wife and I appreciate being served. We have both worked in jobs where we serve other people, so we know how hard that job can be. If the service is poor then I still tip, but not as much. For regular restaurants and pizza/beer places I still tip well, especially if they are cute. Wife calls me shallow Hal. Breakfast places where the waiters don't make much I try to over tip and make their day. Can't imagine trying to make it on what those places pay.

When I was young I'd stay with my father's father in the Bay Area when we would go up for holiday's, etc. He had a place in Castro Valley, nice diner, he frequented. He would get the 60's/70's version of a table dance when he showed up.

They loved him long time.

I generally tip around 20% Crap service will be half that or less.

I was never a bad tipper, but I find myself tipping higher on a regular basis because the wife and I are doing well and because I am trying to be more generous with my abundance as the days roll on.