Comments on: How much do you tip?

By: dyricci

dyricci — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:21:43 +0000

Most of my friends are in food service…whether waitstaff or bartenders…so I don’t hesitate to tip generously. Almost always, I tip 20%…unless the service is noticably bad and it’s obviously the servers fault (then usually 10%). On the extremely rare occation that it’s just total nuclear-disaster-type bad, I have been known to leave absolutely nothing…but I mean really, really bad, like where’s the manager bad…and I can only think of a very small handful of times that I have ever so.

Bartenders tend to get 25-30% from me…I think because it’s just easier fo both of us if I just tip a buck on each drink…and I end up getting more for my money and a heavy tip generally means a heavy pour on the next round!

By: CheyAnne Sexton

CheyAnne Sexton — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:35:54 +0000

I’m the same, My honey and I always tip at least 20% but if they suck it varies
@ my last knowing there are only 11 states left that pay the minimum of $2.13 and New Mexico is one of them

By: withonebreath

withonebreath — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:20:30 +0000

When I do go out, I always tip 18-20%. My girlfriend was a waitress for a number of years, so we are both sensitive to the monetary needs of waiters and waitresses, but also extremely picky about the level of service we receive. If the waiter sucks bad enough, that tip is considerably lower, though I don’t usually dock a waiter if it is obvious that they are slammed unless the service was atrocious.