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Originally Posted by look 171

Went to a place tonight with family in Pasadena where we do most of our eating, shopping and etc. Its one of those places where the food must be ordered through the QR code that was placed on the table, no paper or any any type of menu. They bring the food when its ready. We get out own water, napkins, sauce, and plastic forks and knives. I follow the direction and pay for our food through my phone. When done, it asked for 18, 23 and 28 % tip. What the fook, man. I did all the work, I even have to get my own water. This is way before we had any service and they want a tip? Its a weird situation when the waitress or can I even call her that came and maybe she noticed no tip? Maybe she stuck her finger in our food?

I assume/hope there was a "custom" option as well. I tended bar for about 5 years. We did have a full kitchen, and there were tables and waitresses so the amount of food service that I had to do was minimal. Still, my hourly rate varied from ~$2/hr up to about $4.5/hr depending upon the job and location. I relied on tips, so I generally tip well.

I've never run into a situation like that, but that's crazy. How expensive is the food and or what would you expect a total bill to be? And some folks will pay with a credit card but tip with cash.

I'd be curious to talk to mgmt about the whole situation.

If I eat someplace and the total bill is $20, but I got really good service, drinks always full, wait staff with a nice disposition, speedy, checked on a couple of times, I might tip $10. If we go eat for $60 and get minimum service, not bad, but not good either, they would probably also get $10. If the bill was $60 and we got really good service, then the tip might be $15.

But starting the tip scale at 18% where the only waiting is to bring the food to the table seems crazy. Or did anyone stop by the table to ask how things were? It didn't sound like there was any of that or drink refills or anything other than just dropping off the food.