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Are you a good tipper? Do you not tip? Do you tip purely 15%(or 20, or whatever it is now)? Are you a good or bad customer at resteraunts bars and cabs? Are you an asshole, do you ask for all kinds of crazy shit with your food/drinks? Are you polite?

Yes, 18%, good customer, polite.

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Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

$5 or 20%, whichever is greater...unless the restaurant adds the "gratuity" automatically, in which case, they get what they added only. As a customer: Golden Rule.

Boredalt - 80 Dwarf Priest - Dissension

Do you tip $5 if you've gotten a single drink at a bar?

I actually should have specified an exception. If I'm getting beer direct from the bartender, it's a dollar at best because that doesn't take any work. Mixed drinks are a different matter.

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Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

I'll tip between 0-25% at a sit down restaurant, but the 25% is rare. I expect my server to be kind and pleasant, my food to arrive promptly and correctly, my glass to never be empty and the bill to be delivered before I'm waiting to pay.

I don't tip well at the car wash. They charge $23 for vacuuming, sending my vehicle through the automatic car wash (2-3 minutes time, tops) and then hand drying it and cleaning the windows. The entire experience takes about seven minutes and I can't justify shelling out an extra $4 for a largely automated process. They'll get an extra $1 put in the bucket.

If I get appliances or furniture delivered to the house, I'll tip the delivery men if they move the items in the house without damaging anything, install it, remove the item and/or show features of the product. If they're twats, I'll send them away with nothing.

If I have contractors at my house doing work, I'll either buy the guys pizza for lunch or tip when the job is done.

I believe my wife does a flat 15% charge for pizza delivery. I think it was higher, but a few years back they started applying a 'delivery charge'... so, we decided to take that out of the tip.

When we were in Jamaica, we tipped the locals generously. There was one excursion my family went on... it was a bike ride down one of the peaks in the Blue Mountains. My wife and mother decided they didn't feel comfortable riding old bikes down a mountain, so the tour guides let them ride in the back of a pickup truck. On their trip, the tour guides would stop and explain stuff about the herbs in the mountains, or just to let my wife/mother take pictures. The guys would even take pictures for the ladies with the mountains as a backdrop. We ended up giving each of the guys with the ladies an extra $20 for taking care of them. I'll tip anyone if they go beyond my expectations and make an experience better. The asshole at the top of that waterfall you can climb... he actually told us to tip him, and complained to people when he thought the tip wasn't enough. I don't remember tipping him well for being a bitch to people about it.

I'm a poor student, you can expect me to be accordingly cheap.

I see the guidelines less as "this what you should tip" and more as "if you dont tip this, you are an asshole". I am excellent at mental math but i dont patronize others by working things out. I go with a cool round amount and make a cursory check if its not in line with expectations.

People who get paid a decent wage, or own the business, get nothing. I dont punish minor errors but laziness or fail (rare) is a stiff. I dont believe in paying fails any tip. Conversely, i tip drivers very generously.

In general, im generous. A few extra bucks on tips seems to me a small and wise investment.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

18% base line, 25 if they're awesome, 10 if mediocre. I'll never not leave a tip, since now that my income is partly dependent on them, I sympathize even with the bad servers - everyone has bad days.

Delivery guys get paid 15% flat, I generally tip my hair guy 20 bucks (fucking curly hair so expensive to maintain in this city). Taxi driver rate varies, especially since there are some major creepers.

I do tip really well if I get hooked up though, even those almost everyone who hooks me up is a friend, it's always about who you know and how well you treat each other, so it's good to be on everyone's good side.

No. I'm with you on the bar. A buck or two.

Pizza guy generally gets $5. I won't get pizza delivery from a place that adds the charge up front. I think they're dipping into their drivers' tips.

At restaurants where the waiters have assistants, I hand a tip directly to the person most responsible for my dining experience. If that person chooses to share, whatever. I don't like that some establishments have the waiter greet me, take my order, then disappear until it is time to drop off the check while some other person brings the food, fills my drinks, clears finished plates, and brings other necessities.

As for being financially challenged: When you are deciding if you can afford to patronize an establishment, you should factor in the tip. If the tip is the "tipping" point, you can't afford to eat there.

Boredalt - 80 Dwarf Priest - Dissension

Generally I tip $1 with each drink at a bar (unless I order a couple complicated / expensive drinks )...if I give you $1 for handing me a bud light, you should thank your lucky stars.

When it comes to meals, 10-15% for breakfast and lunch, 20% for dinner (assuming good service)

For cabs, I try to hit the 15% mark.

I saw a bunch of hiring ads for Dominos. They all scream WE PAY IN CASH DAILY which of course really means "we hire illegals and evade taxes". As I've mentioned, I try to buy from Mom & Pops.

That said, I don't think this characterization is entirely fair. Gas and car maintenance are expensive - $2 or so seems a reasonable fee for the material cost of delivery.



I tend to be of the viewpoint that someone who is having a bad day deserves some leeway - but I won't create an incentive to make your bad day, my bad day.

I am not sure what you mean by "creepers" in this context - do you mean leering or eccentric? can't blame for that - but I have seen many taxi drivers that intentionally miss lights or take circuitous routes or feign incompetence to rack up fees. One of them even got a bit pushy about his tip after all that. lol. Yeah, no tolerance for that shit.

I get my haircuts just across the street, from these two old men who probably live in the basement of their shop - a Haitian and a Greek, both in their 60s. I bet they have a bunch of interesting tales to tell. Their place has a cash register that's about a century old, a Sony radio from the 60s, which still looks like new and has amazing sound quality, and a lot of other chatchkas that havent moved in decades. They are very warm and they like me too, they are always beacons of cheerful optimism. I used to tip them, but they seemed awkward about it, so I don't do it anymore. The Haitian isn't as good as the Greek, and I think he's starting to lose it mentally - he's very slow - but I indulge him.

Like you, I have curly hair; I don't try to do anything with it, as you do, but my ears are very sensitive to infection and I get headaches and runny nose if I do not keep my hair short enough to prevent it from making contact with my ears. Washing does not seem to prevent this. So, I do have to get fairly frequent haircuts.

It's right down the street, not 200m walk, and they charge only $12 a cut.
I know damn well I am very lucky.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

Why give a tip when you can give the whole shaft?

Or if you're black, the whole tree trunk.

my generosity has often been related to my financial situation in that i tip a lot more generously now than when i was living on couches and floors
for food i generally do 20% (less if the service sucked)
for booze, i normally do the $1/beer thing, and for mixed drinks there are a few bartenders at a bar in downtown raleigh that i like and they make good old fashioneds and are very friendly, so i tip them very well. i was actually there a month ago and a bartender i never had before took my order, went to go make it, and then came back and said, "i'm gonna let mark handle this one. he says he knows how you like 'em." treat your bartender well, and they'll treat you well back.

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sunshine.kittens.bubblegum.happythoughts

If it's a one-time event, I evaluate the service critically. If they do a shitty job, they get a shitty tip.

20% anywhere I'm a repeat customer (or a generous minimum if I didn't order much) regardless of day to day performance, leaving 25%+ for exceptional jobs. If they annoy me consistently then I won't be a repeat customer.

I have sympathy for anyone in customer service, and fear what they will do to my food if I give them a reason to be angry with me

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Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.