What Tip % do you leave at a Restaurant ?

Not enough choices...

I tip according to service... bad service = $.02 - a nickle

Good service = up to 10%

If the joint puts the tip automatically on the bill... I don't ever return.

 

i usually leave around 20%. but if the service is bad, i'll go as low as 10. if it's expensive i o less and if it's cheap with hardworking people, i'll go upto 50.

 

OH... on special occasions, when I have reserved a place and planned an event at a food joint... I have given the wait staff $50 bills for making sure my friends are paid attention to... but I don't let my friends know I did that... the last time was at Chantrelle's... and was worth every coin.

The squash soup was just wonderful.

 

I usually tip 20% if the service is good. I used to do less until my daughters started waiting tables and would come home almost in tears over busting their butts to please demanding customers only to get trivial tips.

Both said that the people that you would think would tip well (well dressed, nice cars, etc.) usually were the poorer tippers and the ones that you would not expect to tip well (opposite of above) were typically the better tippers.

 

shorts and teeshirts here, and prius of course!

 

Depends entirely on service. Generally 10% to 25%
Although, in general I tip less at a buffet.

Although my favorites are Christmas tips

 

10% if bad. 15% is my goto tip for satisfactory service and it goes up from there for good service. I think the highest I ever gave was 25% for good service.

 

isn't there a NY place that is now just including tip in the cost overall? i am down with that.

 

There are a very few places that pay their help a decent wage and note 'no tips please'.

 

I started tipping well when taking my late wife out to eat. She had a brain injury and enjoyed going out every Saturday to a limited number of local low-to-mid priced restaurants who all knew her and treated her great. Our favorite family restaurant waitress would see us coming and have a table ready - chairs removed from one side (for her wheelchair), regular beverage served, and extra napkins. Restaurant staff were patient and friendly, answering the same (sometimes inappropriate) questions about their personal life on each visit. Dinner for both of us was about $20-$30 and I left a $10 tip. A number of these restaurant folks attended my wife's visitation or funeral.

I'm now engaged to a lovely lady and we go out even more often to the same restaurants. (Once married & living together this fall, we will be cooking at home most nights.) I still leave a $10 tip. Generally, I like to leave a tip of $5 per person and almost never eat a places where that would be less than 15%.

 

Yeah, it's a sushi place- franchised too IIRC.

I generally tip 20%, but if it's at our favorite Greek place where the owner loads us up and brings out food that he likes to cook (without us asking- and it's never on the bill including other items that he leaves off the bill) then I usually leave considerably more.

 

15% - 100%.

For those of you who never had the pleasure of working in the food service industry, the Federal Minimum Wage for "Servers" today is $2.13 an hour, though a very few States slightly more. For reference, the Federal minimum wage in 1975 was $2.10 an hour. Servers are required by law to report 100% of their tips as included income for tax purposes. In Texas they are required to claim minimum 11% of their total sales as tips, whether they make it or not. Remember the Server also has to tip the Bar, the Bus "Person" and sometimes the Host/Hostess. Most are required to work split shifts, weekends and Holidays. I can not even begin to tell you the entitlement people demand, except to say if most people treated their Mothers the way they treat Servers, there would be a lot of hungry people out there, as it relates. Remember they work 4-6 (or more) tables at a time, are instantly required to accurately read and work the personalities and demands of every type person, and with variable work loads most could not conceive.

Yes there are Excellent Servers, Bad Servers and everything in between. Same goes for Customers. So next time you get upset because you drink takes 5 minutes longer than you expect, remember most of them are doing everything in their power to make your stay as pleasant as possible.

 

right on!

 

Never heard of Federal Minimum Wage for "Servers" today is $2.13 an hour.
The minimum wage apply to all job, labor or desk job.
There are some Asian restaurants that pay under the table below minimum wage and collects all the tips and the servers do not get any.

 

U.S. Department of Labor - Wage & Hour Divisions (WHD) - Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees

Trust me...I know. Actually it's called "Tipped Employees".

 

This is minimum CASH wage to make up the minimum wage.

 

when they say 'cash' they mean wages. you can pay an employee any way you want, as long as you pay payroll taxes.

 

Call it what you will. You work 40 hours as a Server, the gross pay check is $85.20, then they take out taxes on that plus 11% of your sales (Texas), or your reported Tips. You live on Tips. Try it some time.

$2.13 is Federal. As stated, only a few states pay more. Click on State to see.

Happy to have educated.

 

Chicken or the egg? Servers have low wages because they also get tipped or we should tip them because they get low wages? I do concede that I've only worked at McDonald's for $4.25 minimum wage and received a tip twice during my 3 month service. I may not come from experience in food service but my due compensation was exactly why it only lasted 3 months.

I also work hard at my job. Most people do. You can't say food servers work harder than firefighters or teachers. I don't get tips when I sell a product and neither does anyone on my production team. In fact, we're not allowed by law to accept any kind of reward as it may be construed as bribery.

If I am not willing to tip, I don't go out. Otherwise, it's industry standard tip for satisfactory service. It goes up and down from there. I'm not going to feel sympathy and give 20% to those who gets my order wrong working a dead end job. I'd rather reward those who do provide excellent service. Earn a better tip or go get a better paying job. That's what I did.