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Originally Posted by Baz

I was with a friend once - I mean we go back to the 70's - met in college. He ended up moving here for quite a few years before moving out west. Anyhoo, when he was in town we'd always eat at a local Mexican place.

The last time I left $20 for the waitress. The total bill for both of us was only around $25.

You should have seen his reaction. You'd think I signed over the deed to my house!

I never gave it a second thought because I very rarely ever eat out. So a healthy tip when the service & food was good I think it how it's done, right? Who cares about percentages. Just give from the heart and $20 is nothing nowadays! And this was about 3 years ago.

BTW, we both had the Carnitos soft tacos. 3 for ~$10. Always very good at this place.

Exactly. 15 years ago, I worked a job where our group frequently went to lunch as a group. I've been at places where one of the guys would get something that was $8-10, and they'd leave a tip of $1.20 - $1.50 (I'm pretty sure I remember one time where the bill was $6 and the tip was 90¢). I'd give them crap for it. My reasoning is that I wouldn't want on me hand and foot for an hour for $1.50.