How much do you tip?

I was a waitress for a long time, and Its really much harder than it seems. You have to wait on people hand and foot, bring them everything they need, totally kiss ass, and pray to God that they're happy and tip you well. Plus the wage is only like 3 bucks an hour, so if you don get tipped well that day, you go home empty handed. Its so discouraging and depressing to put in a hard and very long days work, and coming home with 20 bucks. Im so glad I got out of the food service industry, as it really was horrible. But now I make sure to tip well anywhere I go. I tip everyone, my hairdresser, my massage therapist, I even tipped a guy at the gas station that was working on Christmas. I guarantee it made his day, and I really just like to do that for people.

 

i normall tip 15% but sometimes i have a terrible waitress and i ive her 10%

 

I usually always tip a good waiter or waitress even if we didn't stay there for long its just nice and the waiter/waitress is usually always thanking me and my friends if we tip them a lot
lol

 

I would rarely go under 10% even if a waiter were really lazy and didn't make any effort to be nice...except once, a waiter in Boston at a well know n seafood place was just an arrogant ass who thought he was doing me a huge favor to bring food out to me while turning his nose up at me and my friends. I left him a 10% tip anyway, but then he stopped me as I was getting up to leave the table and says to me "it is customary to tip 20% for good service around here (accompanied by the nastiest, condescending attitude)", so I just walked back to the table, and said "yeah 10% was too much to pay someone who made my day less enjoyable", and picked up another $5 and walked out. Actually, I was ready to do that, because I heard him use the same line on another customer 10 mins earlier.

 

Hmmm.. interesting. Where I come from.. we don't tip at all. In restaurants.. they'd usually charge 10% service charges. ... maybe that explains the sucky customer service here... >.<

 

Exactly, my friends from Belgium were complaining about having to tip 15-20% when they were here, saying that why don't the restaurants just pay them more and charge a little higher prices. The good thing about tipping is most waiters realize that they only make around $3.50/hr if they don't get tips. It's not a guarantee of good service, but it helps.

 

15% if they're good.

 

If you're eating out it Finland, don't tip. Our prices are so high, that tipping the waiters makes you look like a boaster 'look at all this money I have left to give'. No offence to anyone though, we understand that it's practically a norm in many countries.

 

I try to go 15%
If the chick is hot I'll tip more though, naturally.

 

10-15%

 

15% on everything

 

usually 10%, just cause it's easy to calculate

 

20%+round up to the nearest whole dollar if the service is good

10% if bad

 

10% if bad. 15% if less than average. 20% if good. 22% if exceptional. My boyfriend works as a pastry chef and used to wait tables so he tends to sympathize. If the restaurant is busy and the service isn't prompt, we don't necessarily treat that as bad.

 

I tip around 10%, maybe a bit more depending on the quality of service.

 

I tip 10% for lunch, 15% for dinner (Yeah those are the % norms here ) and if it's a really good dinner/amazing service I tip 20%!

 

It depends
If its pizza 5$
Haircut 5$
Usually like 10^

 

If you don't agree with the gratuity system, you really shouldn't go out to eat where someone will be serving you. Food industry workers are so abused and underpaid. If your server is being rude, still tip them the bare minimum but go to their supervisor/manager. That's more of a punishment than not tipping.

 

25%-great service
20%-If they just fill up the glass and that's about it.
5%-buffets
0%if I go pick up my own food