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If you heard about a bar that had a policy they would not welcome you back if you refused to tip--maybe not for one drink but for a significant (>$20) tab, how would you react?
Think they were pricks and never go there? Or think "good, cheap people suck and need to be told so"?
I don't want this (actually good) thread to get derailed into Tippingville. My quick thought on this, as a bartender, is that it's a bad idea. Tipping is not mandatory, that's the nature of it. If someone doesn't tip on a big tab at my place--which almost never happens--they just get the world's worst service from that point on, wait ten minutes waving their twenty in the air, etc.
There's one guy who comes in on the reg and drinks six or so beers and never, ever, ever tips a dime. He waits until everyone else gets served, and then if I see a table that needs cleaning or I have to take a piss, he waits for that, too. It seems worth it to him, though to save those 3-6 dollars, so w/e.