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In the U.S., 20-25% at restaurants for good service is considered the norm. For less than great service, I'd probably tip 10-15%. I've never had service so awful that I didn't leave a tip at all. For hotel maids, a couple bucks a day is nice, unless you've made a significant mess in which case I'd tip more.

"Also it goes against everything I believe in, it isn't my job to pay the wages of someone else's employees."

Yeah. I hear this a lot from people who come from countries without a tipping culture. I agree that servers ought to be paid a living wage rather than relying on tips, but I wonder if the anti-tipping people understand that

1) the food you're paying for is cheaper because restaurants don't pay their servers a living wage
2) by not tipping, they're not sticking it to The Man by being a working class hero, all they do is stiff their poor waiter or waitress. You're not going to make employers change their mind. You won't change the laws, either. So how you feel about tips and wages is irrelevant: LEAVE A FUCKING TIP IF YOU HAD GOOD SERVICE FROM YOUR SERVER.

Not saying that you do this, of course, but it gets up my nose when people bring that up.

I absolutely believe in paying for service, having worked as a server in the past, but I think I prefer places with a fixed gratuity charge added to your bill. As a patron, I hate sitting there calculating how much to tip every meal, and as a server, I hated the cheapskate that would leave a dollar in change worth of tips off of a $30 bill. Fuck those guys.

If you don't have a cell phone with a calculator function, an easy way to calculate the tip is to simply move the decimal point to the left one place, and then multiply that amount by 2 to get 20%. For example, for a bill of $22.50, you would move the decimal point so you get $2.25 (the zero gets dropped) and then double it, so that you know a 20% tip is $4.50.

We did once. We had a waitress who was flighty with our order then we saw her leave without having told us that we were switched to a different server. So we sat there for a bit and had to flag someone down who FINALLY came to our part of place.

We should have just gone ahead and left, but we were hungry and we were stubborn.

+100

I really wish we'd switch to a paying-properly-and-not-tipping system, but until then, stiffing the waiter just makes you an asshole.

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