Tipping your wait staff

I will not go back to a place that I have gotten bad service. If I have a decent waiter/waitress, I leave a really good tip. One time, even $20 on a $40 meal. But, if I am out, and the waiter ignores me, or AND THIS MAKES ME MAD flirts openly with my husband (as happened last week at Applebee's), I will not leave a good tip. They're lucky if they get 5% from me. I'm not bossy either, I just want decent service and i understnad that it can get busy, but when you ask for your check and you have to wait 20 minutes for it..or you have to wait 10 minutes for the waiter to come back with a refill...you're not getting good service.

Where I go is not the issue, I tip in general based on service and percentage. I will use specific percentage as a starting point, though I do not agree with the idea of doing so, I do usually do this any way. I will tip the basics of 15 to 20 percent based on service then add or decrease again based on service. Example there was a problem with the food I ordered, not being prepared right this to me is not a reflection on the wait staff so I did not base my tip on that. I did however base my tip on the fact that we could never find our waitress, never get service when we needed it, and worst of all we had to wait for over 20 minutes to try to get the check, and the finally we went to the register only to wait there for them to find the check for us. On other occassions I have found the service to be superior, that the waiter or waitress would come to check to see if we needed anything they would be prompt, remember the order correctly ensure that we had what we were supposed to have.

I always tip at least 15%. Usually, if the service has been really good, I tip 25%, but then, I raised my kds on waitress tips, so I know how important it is to tip well.

Normally, I give 20% of the bill if the service was good. I would give less though if the waiter/waitress wasn't attentive..or if I asked for something and never got it. A waiter or waitresses looks have no affect on the tip I leave.

At a pizza place i tip 20% percent of the bill if the waitress is good at checking on our table.. If the service isnt good i give 12%... Now keep in mind i dont know about pizza places but resturant you get paid like $2 a hr. because you are getting tips. The bad part of it if you dont get a tip you still have to pay taxes on tips you didnt recieve. uncle sam goes my percentage of what you should of gotten..

it doesn't matter how they look. I tip according to the service I recieve by the wait person. If I recieve great sevice the tip is great, if I recieve good service the tip it good if I recieve average service then I go with the % don't stiff a wait person they only make $2.50 an hour and that even high....lol...just remember if the service isn't what it should be go with %

As a general rule I tip 20%. If they were terrible I tip 15%. If they were really good I tip more than 20% depending on how good they were. Also if they were really good, I write a nice comment on the reciept because their manager sees those at the end of the day.

I tip about 15%, on average. If the service is really crappy or the server is rude, or perhaps doesn't come back often and is openly chatting with the other staff and ignoring me, I'll leave 10% or lower. If the server is good, gets the order right, or goes out of their way to make sure I'm comfortable, I'll often leave around 20-25%.

In general, it's recommended to tip 15-20% of your total bill when eating at a sit-down restaurant, or more if you're with a large group. If you're at a bar, a dollar per drink is recommended, and if you've ordered pizza, $2.00 for each pie delivered is considered polite. I generally tip based on the quality of the service I receive. If I am treated rudely by my server, or the service is in any other way unsatisfactory, my tip will be smaller. If the service is great, I tip more. I never tip differently based on appearance or gender, because this is discriminatory.

I don't know if there are any hard and fast rules that people follow when it comes to tipping. Personally, I tip based on service, friendliness, helpfulness, genuineness, and knowledge of the menu. My daughter also worked in the restaurant industry and she said these were the main things good tippers look for in their wait staff. Once you have a good clientele, they will request to sit in your section and be served by you. I have been known to tip as high as 50% o 75% of the check and as low as 15% which seems to be the old standard. Those that I tip well, will fight to get me seated in their section and will continue the quality service I come to expect from certain establishments. If you are thinking of going into the business, get some good experience at a pizza joint or some type of bar/pub type thing. Then move up once you have some experience. Talk to your guests as if they were sitting in your own dining room, keep a good eye on them, talk to them about the weather, the news, anything that they would find interesting. If they have children, get down on the kids' levels and talk to them. Tell them what your establishment has on the menu for them and help them make their dinner choices, with Mom and Dad's help, of course. I'm sure there are many things I could come up with that would be helpful for you, but this should get you started. Good luck!

I am very specific about my tipping. I always tip 20%. Unless the person is just horrible, then I will leave 10%. It would take a really, really, really bad server for me to leave nothing or a penny. And I have done that once. But for the most part it is 20% and up. I know that this is what they live on and a lot of people don't understand that. If you work in a restaurant as a server, you are only making $2.xx per hour. What people don't get is that you are NOT making minimum wage. People like my Dad who swear up and down that by law they HAVE to be making minimum wage so it doesn't matter what he tips are soooo wrong! I've gone round and round with him, trust me. Anyway, from being in the business, I know that tips are everything and so if I get great service you can expect a 25%-30% tip. If it's just okay service, then 20%. If it sucks, then 10% and if you are just plain out rude and treat me like crap you are getting nothing or even worse, a penny. But like I said, I've only done that once. My advice as a new server, smile, be friendly, tend to the table often, but not annoyingly, and you will do just fine!

Depending on service, I tip a varying amount. What someone looks like has no influence on how much I tip them.