IIRC it was 15% in years past. Lately I’ve been tipping 20% (more on small dinner checks). Is 20% the new baseline tip for receiving good service?
Not for me. Tipping evil.
My practice is 20% or more for exceptional service, 15% for decent service, 10% or less for marginal to crappy service.
Frankly, I’d prefer that restaurants jack up their prices a little more, pay the servers a decent wage, and make sure they only retain good servers. Yeah, like that’ll ever happen…
It happens here (Australia). No tipping. Although taxi drivers would tell you differently.
15%. Any figure you hear higher than that is a campaign by restaurant workers to get paid more for doing less work.
I usually leave 20%. But that is a personal preference. Usually I eat at the same places each week and know the staff and prefer to give them a little extra. 15% is normal. I only leave less than 20 if the service was particularly bad. And then I leave 10.
My girlfriend, a server, thinks 15% is an insult. She’s crazy though, when you make $11 an hour in tips for a college job you have no reason to complain.
Since I’ve worked in the industry, I leave around 20-25% for good service. Marginal service gets between 10-15%, if it’s poor service, usually less than 10% is the norm. YMMV of course.
My tips are usually somewhere in the 30 to 50 percent range, but then again, I’m usually at Waffle House, where they all know my name, and I feel guilty only leaving 1.50 on my 7.50 check, even if it is 20 percent.
I agree with Chaotic Donkey that generally very low bills demand a higher percentage tip.
That said, I think tipping was placed on this earth to extort more money out of people like me who feel extreme guilt at leaving anything less than 18 or 20 percent. What a sucker! But yeah, I leave about 20% almost all the time.
The only way a server is going to get 20% from me is if a blowjob was included in the service! I also feel no tip at all is appropriate if I am not satisfied with the service, either. I would never leave a tip for sub-standard treatment.
10% is the max I give, and it has to be very good to get that.
It would appear some people worry too much about how big a tip they give. If everyone tipped a waitress 20% she’d make a bloody fortune.
Oh yeah. Combined with that minimum wage they get, they’d be rolling in the dough. :rolleyes:
10% is an insult. The server has to tip out other people, so 15% is the minimum you should tip. Anything below 10% costs the server money. There will always be cheap people like you so you don’t have to worry about waitresses making too much money.
Having worked as a waitress, I always tip 20% unless the service was bad.
Unfortunately, I’m seldom able to eat out anymore, but I used to work in food service, and I really appreciate a good, attentive waiter or waitress. I’ve been known to leave huge tips for really great service. Only once can I recall having deliberately left no tip, and in this case I also complained to the management about the server. Mostly I have tipped in the range of 15% to 20%.
I’ll tip 10 to 15 % if it’s just my SO and me. Not because I think the waitress is making too much, or anything, it’s just that generally, I don’t see the reason to tip that high! We’re not demanding, we don’t cause any trouble, we’re probably one of the easiest customers she’s got there. So why should I tip even more…I certainly do feel 20 % is way too high on an average restaurant.
If I’m in a fancy restaurant, or more people, I’ll tip higher.
Insult my ass. The employer should pay them more. Here in the UK 10% is the norm. 10% is decent anyway, being a waitress is hardly rocket science, get another job if you feel you’re not being paid enough. :rolleyes:
I’m a keen supporter of the Mr Pink philosophy on tipping. 
huh?
Here in the US, 15-20% is the norm Moneybags.
I suggest you go to a grocery store and cook for yourself if the price of eating out is too high for you.