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Originally Posted by niftymatt
You act like the guy paying for it on his card is the criminal. He is giving a tip. I don't see your other 2 friends tipping.
Ridiculous how vehement people are when it comes to tipping. The concept of making tipping standard is stupid. Why can't the restaurants pay their employees? Along with the fact that the states let them by not requiring minimum wage (although some require half, others more than half/less than half.)
Then don't eat out at restaurants. I have seen this argument used many times by idiots and cheap people. Get the food to go if you don't want to tip - by eating at the restaurant you are obligated to follow the social norm by tipping.
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Originally Posted by Caramelldansen
Where I used to live, minimum wage was $8 and servers normally finished their shifts with $100 on top of their wage on a good night.
I personally see this as very wrong since their wage is normally $10 (10*8 = 80) + 100 = 180 per shift. That is wayyyyyyy too much for doing something so simple. On that, I normally don't tip servers unless they look sexy enough. And if that, I flat tip $8.008 (yeah, I write that out)
Food at restaurants is generally expensive as is.. I really don't get why people tip so much.
LOL @ tipping an eighth of a cent. I also would not frequent anywhere where you are known to leave no tips as you will probably get your food ****ed with.
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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
the only times i dont tip like 18%-25% are if i have terrible service, or i am paying in cash and the idiot server doesnt give me the proper change to leave a good tip
ex. 18.23 bill. i use a 50. i get a 20, 10, 1 and .77 cents. if i dont have anything other singles in my wallet, enjoy your 1.77 tip, dumbass.
If you're not with anyone who can make change I would just say "Hey, can I get 5 singles?" If you say nothing maybe the waiter could think giving you a bunch of extra unnecessary bills as angling for a bigger tip and you could spite-stiff him. In this case it's actually the opposite but I don't see why you wouldn't just ask for change.