Tips at a Restaurant

tips here are not being demanded, they just lay a little platter at the table with your change in it and it's up for the customers to leave any amount. Even little change will do as in some restaurants the waiters collected all the tips and then whatever sum they get will be equally divided among themselves.

Tips are usually given to waiters and waitress after a meal but this this depends on the client, when we give a big tip the waiter remembers us, so the next time you go back to the restaurant the waiter would approach you immediately to get your order because he/she remembers the last time he gave you the amount of tip.

The state I live in the standard amount for a tip is 15%. I think it is a guideline so someone who has a $20.00 bill, will not tip one dollar. People can tip whatever they want, but I think the tipping per dollar amount is a curtesy to give people an idea, that they should not tip under that amount. My husband and I are good tippers. He worked as a limo driver at one time, and understands the value of tipping well, since he did not always get good tips.

I never have understood that, even when I was waiting tables! I don't let the price of the meal affect the amount of tip I leave. For me, it all depends on the service. I don't even consider the quality of the food because it is not the waitress/waiter who prepares it and if it is bad, they should not be penalized! I think that maybe the reason for the way a gratuity is calculated is in attempt to get waiters and waitresses in higher-classed restaraunts to push the more expensive meals.

I don't really understand it either, now that you bring it up. Tips is actually an acronym that stands for "to insure proper (or prompt, depending on who you ask) service." It used to be, and still is in some places, given at the beginning of the meal. I'm not, however, sure what happens if you tip at the beginning of the meal and the server lays an egg and totally forgets about your table...or has a bad attitude. *shrug* I use the 15% as a sort of guide but mostly I use their performance to decide. If they ignore me, never refill my drink, whatever, they definitely don't get 15%. Likewise if they don't leave me alone for more than three bites before they ask me how everything's going, the tip is going to go down for that as well. But, keep my drink filled, don't deliver the food and then disappear for 30 minutes then bring the check, be polite and act like you actually want to be at work and you might get 20%.

OHMIGOSH!!! I know about the tipping!! Goodness!! Why does it have to be a certain percent of the total when it's just how much the food cost?! I just go with what my husband has told me and it's 15%. I thought I was a great tipper, til I moved to this country and man oh man, I feel really cheap when I tip here.

Personally I think it is up to the Service I get regardless of the price as to how much I tip, etc. I know that when it is somewhere I get excellent Service I usually will tip more for sure. I hate knowing we should Tip for Bad Service somewhere as well. But as for the amount to tip, don't they always say 10 to 15% of your total bill, so that would mean more for a more expensive meal as well. Just my thoughts.

I have never gone by the price of my meal. I determine differently how much I am going to tip a waitress by the service she/he gives me. If they give me excellent service they get a very good tip, if they give me fair service than that is the kind of tip they get. I don't feel I have to go by what they say I need to figure on what kind of tip. It is my money and I figure the tip the way I feel it is fair to do.

I am a good tipper because I used to be a server years ago. The reason it's done that way is because that's how the servers are taxed..by their sales. It's ridiculous really but I guess they felt like there needed to be a basic guideline for taxing tips.