The tipping thread

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Posted at December 27, 2007, 5:05 am:

My question is why a fixed percentage and since when has 20% become standard
Suppose you had a pile of sushi at some generic sushi restaurant - $7
Suppose you had the prix fixe at Tru - $7
Suppose you had Tournedos Rossini and Caesar Salad prepared tableside at Fifi's (a hole in the wall restaurant in Toledo, Ohio) - $7
Would you tip the same
(Fifi's is actually less than $75 but le'ts assume $75 for the sake of argument)

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yeah probably or close, but what I would do differently would be to ti...

To tell you the truth I never go off the final amount it is all about ...

Thats how I tip, based on service.

To me tips are like wages.

I feel the same way too somewhat, like it's work.

OK guys so how do you figure out what your dropping on the waitstaff a...

Whether its one server or seven, it matters how much total work and at...

I'm gonna stay away from this one lol.

Hey someday, check out the thread I started.

I know I'm guilty of just handing out a 20% tip.

There's a standard 15% added to every restaurant bill here in France, ...

heh, here in Aus, tipping is a gratuity based on the level of service ...

I waited tables in a small diner in college (as well as working in the...

In the SF Bay Area 15% is the norm.

Here's my M.

When tipping a server, I never take into consideration the food.

yea you have to tip.

yea you have to tip.

I tend to start at a base of 20% and alter it during the experience.

What about alcohol and tax? I learned that you are NOT expected to ti...

I really hate the tipping system.

I had found a website that is primarily a server's domain, that has ma...

What do you mean? All servers talk like English Butlers.

I used to wait tables so I know how it is depending on the tip.

If this link is not appropriate, please feel free to delete it (i gues...

I think that percentages are good bases to work off of.

This is the perfect approach IMHPO.

we had a party a few days ago were when the guy paying the bill found ...

I found out recently that people will shout and scream over the little...

Tipping is part of a person's income, and an unfair business practice ...

If the food is bad and the restaurant is bad, it most certainly is the...

I find this kind of thinking offensive.

Unless a person is a slave, he does have a choice about where he works...

Well, I guess you live in a different world than i live in, miost peop...

We're getting off the "tipping" aspect, but here goes.

as i say, you live in a very different world.

Almost all waitstaff can expect 20% out of me almost always.

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