Do you always leave a tip when you go to a restaurant??

Having been a server off and on since I was 16, I absolutely tip !! Unless you work at a really high-end restaurant, the "base" salary for servers is really not very much. Servers make their living by the tips they receive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that in Europe, servers get paid a living wage, so they don't need tips.

Hello SuckerUpper! I tend to leave a tip anywhere between 5-20% of the original cost depending upon where I am and how I read the serving person. I usually go to dine out here but I usually did in my country of origin. I have given more than normal too sometimes. If the serving person seems depressed or in some kind of problem, I'll give more tip than normal. Similarly, I give more tip in smaller restaurants than in the established bigger and posh ones. I would try anything that can boost morale of the working people there. They are usually very ill treated people and that makes me sad. I have also sometimes offered them to join and occasionally when there wasn't high time, they joined me. And believe me they have much to offer and often you can find great people in them. Listening to their perspective about life can be very interesting. Offering and lending a listening ear often makes them happy and I like doing it. So, for me tip is something beyond a casual matter. I must say here that I don't like giving people more than what they deserve. They are already paid but mostly they are paid much lesser than what they deserve. So my tip is just to compensate for their services which deserve much more remuneration than what they are given.

If I eat at a sit down restaurant, I leave a tip. I do not go unless I can afford to do so. The servers make less than minimum wage and rely on tips to make a living. If it is an especially good server, I leave a good tip. If it is a new server who is having a bad night, I leave a good tip. If it is a lazy server who just goes to the back and never offers refills or anything, I might leave a bad tip, and write on a comment card as well. By the way, management and corporate offices do care what you write on the comment cards. I have even gotten phone calls from corporate offices, and all one spring I got really special treatment, because they figured out I had left good comments. Those are almost as important as the tips.

no, i dont give a tip or anything like this.... thnx

I know some countries don't practice tipping. That is just not their way. But it is in America, and I do tip. Always. I just think if we can afford to go out to eat, we can spare a little bit for tip. UNLESS, the waiter/waitress has been unexplicably rude and hateful. But they would have to be really hateful for me not to tip. I just know if it were me, I would appreciate a tip in a business that doesn't exactly make you rich.

I almost always tip, and I tip well if the server was friendly & did his/her job well. I've worked for tips before, it's hard & I want to show appreciation for good service. I can think of two occasions when I didn't leave any tip. Both times the service was horrible. Once the waitress kept asking my partner if his meal was alright, if he needed another drink etc- but ignoring my requests. Well it was his birthday & I was treating that night, so I refused to leave a tip. A little flirting is one thing, being friendly is how they earn their tips. But out & out ignoring the other diner is unacceptable.

I always tip 15%. If service is great I leave 20%.

I avoid leaving tips because it is expected of me. I don't like tipping, because it is not my problem to pick up the slack for the managers. If they are not paying the staff enough it is their problem. People need to start paying the servers well, so that tips can go back to being for exceptional service, not just because they are expected, regardless of service.

I always leave a minimum of 15%. Rarely I have left than that, in the event of really bad service. I will leave more than 15% if I get good or exceptional service. However, I do tip differently when I travel. For example, I recently traveled to Europe and didn't tip as much because its not expected there as much as it is here. In the US, tips make up a large percentage of a waitress' income, while in Europe most make minimum wage and do not always depend on tips for income.

When I do tip, I always tip 15-20%. And I almost always leave a tip. The few occassions that I don't are when the service has been particularly bad. Once a group of friends and I went to a vietnamese resturant in out town and ther services was awful. First, the server told us they didn't have a menu item that every one was eating (fresh spring rolls)...now that would have been ok and I could have accepted they were out of the dish, if the people who came in after us didn't get to have their spring rolls. Then a friend ordered an ince cream desert and the waitress left it still on the counter and brought my friend basically a dish of melted ice cream. When we said something about it she said, that's how it's supposed to be. We only left a 10% tip. But to make matter worse when we were leacing she came over to count the tip and said, "What? Only 10%." Very loudly. By hem the whole resturant was looking and I had to explain how her poor service effected her tip. It was horrible. I just wanted to get out of there.

I almost always leave a tip. 20% is my starting point, and it can move up or down from there. If the service was very good it will be 20% or perhaps up to 25%. For decent service (OK, but didn't refill my drinks quick enough) I give around 15%. One time I was actually insulted by the server, so to make it known that I didn't appreciate it, I gave something like 13 cents (thinking that would be worse than no tip). If the waitress flirts with me she usually gets around 25%.

I just about always leave a tip unless there is a good reason not to and even then I just cut it down instead of leaving nothing. I leave 15% to 20% usually, which is, to my understanding, the customery amount in most of the restaurants I go to.

Hi!Usually, when the server is nice,friendly and makes a fast service, I leave the change. And if I really liked the service, I sometimes add more change. BUT, if the server is just quite the opposite, I won't be leaving not even a single penny for them.