I read
this article recently and I got a pretty good kick outta it. The restaurant took an infinite amount of bad PR over $13 somethin duckettes. Calling the police over $13 is one of the biggest bit*h moves to of happened so far in the new millennium.
This brings me to here. Whatch'yall think about tipping?
I tip 20% or so if the waitress is good/finer than hell at resturaunts. If the service is awful I'll tip 10% or so most of the time. I generally open tabs at bars because I have a hard time giving somebody a dollar everytime they crack open a beer for me, so to avoid this connundrum I just tip at the end of the night on my ticket. When I got cash I'll generally tip every other beer, but I tend to always tip for a mixed drink. The only place I really felt that I had to tip well on every drink was when I lived in Vegas and the barman would do a juggling act to pour me a bourbon on the rocks.
The only time I have never tipped at a bar was actually quite recently here in Austin. I went to a place downtown and the bartender was god awful. I stood at the bar for 15 minutes until she finally served me. She litterally cleared out her bar
three times before I had to actually pull the, "Excuse me, miss."
I told her that I had been waiting patiently for the past quarter of an hour for a drink, and now all I want is my last beer as well as ticket. She got pissy with me and said, "If you're polite I will." I told her that I was being as polite as possible and then she stormed off to retrieve my sh*t. See, she was finer than hell(which is generally enough for me to tip you well as we discussed earlier), but a smug, self centered bitch too, which I felt cancelled out the finer than hell part. My tab was only about $25, so it wasn't like a crime against humanity or anything, but I felt like she didn't deserve a damn dime for such poor service.
Right or wrong?
My buddy from New Zealand didn't tip when he first got in the states. He thought it was the silliest thing and he's actually got himself into some awkward situations because of it. So if you aren't from the Greatest Country on Earth('Merica), how do you tip or what does your culture think of tipping?
We'll all grow closer with this thread.