what do you consider to be a generous %?
curious about others’ tipping practice [those who do] as my husband & i tend to be on opposite ends hahah i also remember my dad writing detailed notes for servers who did something to irk him while giving upwards of 30%. he could be a difficult customer haha but always entertaining 🙂 anyway, please share if you want
edit: additional q, do you tip for takeout?
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Typically 20%.
20% is the norm here. For really good service. I will go up to 25% but I don’t usually go below 15 unless it’s really awful which is pretty rare
Zero. Im from Europe. Its not something we do often here. We have a service charge if their is a table of 6+
It kinda’ depends on the overall cost. If I just get a coffee in a diner, the get a much higher percentage tip wise. If it’s an expensive meal, I go from 10% (for really awful service, which I have done once in my life,) to 40%, for the best server ever!
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20% of the subtotal and I subtract if they add in their own service charge
Standard service i tip 15% if it’s good I tip 22%
20% is the starting point and will go down if the service sucks
I typically estimate 20% of the ticket total, and then round that amount up to the next dollar.
Restaurant: 20%, plus or minus a bit if service was notable good or bad
Takeout: a couple bucks if it’s the kind of place where a hostess or server had to pack up my food
Delivery: $5 or $1 per mile, whichever is more, plus extra if the weather sucks or it’s a holiday
20% unless there’s and auto service charge, then 0 on top of that. Fuck that trend.
Tip 20% or more for servers. Most other tipping is flat rate. Barber is 5 bucks, more if the hair cut is very cheap. Delivery is a flat 5, though it’s been a very long time since I ordered delivery so that might be too little.
I have a hard time tipping on anything else. The idea of tipping for take out or normal purchases feel super wrong but if they person is extremely nice and accommodating I’ll consider it. Went to get coffee and muffins with my family on vacation recently and the cashier was extremely patient with us and our young kids so I tipped because her kindness stood out so much.
Tipping a percentage is the dumbest thing ever. Just because you work at a fancier restaurant doesn’t mean you should get a way bigger tip. $20 meal or $80 meal it doesn’t matter. You get tipped based on your service not based on how expensive the food is.
I try and tip 20% off the pre tax total for standard table service, but usually guilt myself into tipping 27-30% because I’m a former restaurant worker.
I don’t tip for take out. The whole reason I’m taking out is so that I don’t have to tip, lol.
I tip servers and start at 15% and work my way up or down.
Anyone else who asks for a tip like subway, liquor store employees, Starbucks, shops etc. can go fuck themselves.
I’m from UK so tipping isn’t necessary but if I’m at a restaurant and I think the waiter/waitress was really great. I always give a tip and it depends ultimately on how much I feel like I can give.
I also always give a £3-£5 Tip to my UberEats/Deliveroo drivers who delivery my food as I feel bad if I don’t. May not seem much but they always thank me for the tip when they arrive. So that’s conformation to me that it was something
But they get paid over here regardless. My tips are just bonuses
If their job is the service I am paying for I don’t tip. Waiters in America are usually under paid (do to old mentality started during Great Depression) and I am not there for the waiter but for food cooked by a chef. So tipping a waiter is ok. But why the hell would I tip a barber to cut my hair when that is literally their job they get paid for.
I don’t tip as a percentage of the bill. It doesn’t really make logical sense. I’ll tip based on the time I spent in the restaurant, how many different meals were ordered, how often I bothered the waiter for refills or something else, whether they were pleasant to interact with, etc.
If I’m by myself and don’t order much then a $5 tip is on the high end for me. I don’t see why the price of the meal has anything to do with it. If I order a $20 meal or $10 meal the waiter is still doing the same work, so why do most people pay them double?
No I don’t tip on takeout. There isn’t any real service given in that instance. It would basically be the same as tipping at Chipotle or something. When I go to tipping restaurants I often order takeout because tipping someone to bring food to my table and refill my water just seems silly and unnecessary. It’s so easy to do it yourself
0%.
Usually 30-35%
I don’t go in planning on a specific %, but I do realize how hard a lot of the servers jobs are and how much crap they can take from people while doing their job, so I try to be as generous as I can depending on how much money I have on hand (usually around 15-20% is where I’ll cut it off, but I might go beyond that if I’m feeling particularly good). If I get poor service, the story is a lot different, but that’s another topic.
Nothing.
don’t tip on takeout
10% of total bill inclusive of taxes fees
20%. 15% for bad service.