Pole: How much do you you tip?

Question

I am a waitress And I wanted to take a pole on the average tipper.
Basic restuarant, such as Shari's, Denny's. IHop. Your regular breakfast place. Say you spend only $30. The service was outstanding and the food was great. It could not have been better, how much do YOU tip your server?

Answer 1

It really depends on the service. I never stiff a server because my parents started out in the food service industry. If the service is average they get 15% but if it is outstanding I will go more, closer to 25%.

Answer 2

I was at a place the other day, and I notice that the higher the bill, since there isn't any better service, and it takes the waitress maybe 5 minutes more for 10 people than for 3 people, especially when the 3 people are a pain in the butt.

We paid 12% tip on average, so $110 for a $98 bill. It's a quick $12 for the waitress who was working lunch, and that's not including her other tables either, so she probably pulled in $30 that hour, since she was busy.

Typically you want to be a waitress at a really expensive place to make the good money. In NYC, waitresses were making more than the chef's, which pushed a lot of the better chefs to the west coast where they came up with a few (better) ways of making the salaries fair...since if you think about it for a second, the CHEF is the reason the people keep coming back, it's certainly not the service. I have had bad service more often than not, but it doesn't surprise me really since you come to expect that in this day and age with people being as rude and stupid as they are.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I want to sigh. Why do people think it is ok to tip poorly for good service, or that it is ok to not tip at all for their work. They make half of minimum wage.

When I served, no matter the cost of the bill, I found a good tip to be about $2 bucks a head. Anything more was great. Anything less was a great disappointment.

The establishment shouldn't make a difference. The server can't help the price of the food.

Good service to me is having everything I need. I want to receive clean silverware. I consider this to be the servers responsibility because they are usually the ones who roll it. Also, timely refills, enough napkins, all condiments, and of course, not a large space of time between when I am served, and when my company is being served. If I have no need for anything, and should I need something, my waitress is close at hand, I leave a great tip! I know she has done her job. For a $30 bill, around $7 or $8 dollars. If the server went out of their way for something, a minimum of $10.

Unfortunately I once waited at an IHOP, so it is hard for me to eat there, only because the one I worked at was ran extremely well. We all kept our syrups in the right order (Strawboybluebutt), filled at the line, no lower and no higher to keep it from expanding and running over, and jellys filled just right, 4 splenda, etc. I am disappointed to eat at one now and it not be right. Maybe an OCD thing from doing it just so for so long. But when done right, it is one of those behind the scenes work that noone knows about and never appreciated and left in a tip.

Answer 4

Unless I am at Dunkin Donuts, I always to tip a minimum of $5. Generally I tip at least 20%+. I give 18% for bad service, for everyone has bad days but I do not think that that should make thier pay suffer (hey hourly and salary employees dont loose pay for bad days.) Besides I believe that a lot of people come into restuarants thinking that everything that goes wrong is the servers fault and its not nec. the truth.

So to answer your question, if everything was good, i would prob. leave $10, (for I have no prob passing out a couple extra bucks for good food and service.)

Answer 5

For outstanding service, and great food with that check amount i would leave 9-10 dollars, mind you though I am a server, so I tend to tip more anyways. For service that is average that i would not call great or outstanding I tip 20%, and I will tip 15% percent for below average, and for great/outstanding service I will tip over 20%. I've never really had awful service, and I dislike to tip below 15% and have probably only done it a few times.

That's just me though-servers always tip higher than those who have never done it!

Answer 6

If the service was great? $6 (20%). I usually tip around 18%, and from a college student, that's pretty fanastic. However if the service is bad, I lower it to 15%. If I'm really unhappy with the waiter, tip drops to 10%. I'd never be so rude as to drop to a quarter - I know how rude that is. But poor service affects everything. (Also, poor service includes acting like you expect a tip.)

Another thing would be if i were in Europe. DIfferent story there.

Answer 7

I normally tip about 17%. I know its kinda random and tipping now should be between 15-20% but 20% can be a little much for me on my budget so usually its 17%. Unless the service was real crappy then i'll leave between 10-15%.

Answer 8

I tip 15-20% for fast service and keeping my drink full in those types of places. If you can't do that, if I have to hunt you down or ask an associate for service, I many not tip at all.

Answer 9

In that situation I would tip $9 or $10., my man would dbl it if server is a hot woman who flirted, a plain woman who flirted and snuck outside with him while I waited and leave nothing if a male server and be rude to the guy on top of the lack of tip. Did I say he's my ex?

Answer 10

Being a in the same industry I now how frustrating it can be to do what you do if my bill was 30 dollars and very good serves i would leave 10 dollars tip. but that is just me. But the thing is I get picky so if some one dos not do the job well i have been know to leave a single penny.