Just pay the ****ing tip you stupid ****ing idiot.
I do not know how the servers survive on their pay without tips. Not all states pay servers minimun wage, and by gosh some places pool the tips so a bad server gets the same as a great one. Plus some have to share their tips with the Bus boys and girls.
Heck of a job, the weights of the trays, the nasty mean customers and the no tippers. Then there is all tips are income and one is assumed to make 15-20 % wether they make that much or not.
We tip double the food tax for normal service, for good service in the busy hours we triple the tax amount is the service is good.
Good service is being personally seated, given me time to wash my hands in the rest room, time to check out the Menu. Then asking about what I wish to drink, then taking my order.
Great service is not walking up and asking me if the meal is OK when I have a mouth full of food or in conversation with a companion. If I want something I will flag a server down on my own, seating me far away from people with kids yelling or running about gets another buck.
Respect, addressing my Hubby as Sir and me as Miss gets an extra buck. Calling us Honey, Dear or Sugar Pie gets a buck off the tip.
Face it dining out is expensive, I could feed us two for a week on the cost of one dinner. Restaurants are the place in to days world to be pampered, to be able to eat a good meal in peace and not have to cook or clean up after. The cooks make up fabulous meals we cannot make at home, it is the servers that supply the ambiance and comfort to eat it. No one wants to enter a half empty restaurant and be seated next to the rest rooms or kitchen, when the check + tip comes to $60-to $80 bucks for just two, I expect to be treated as a valued customer and not the same as it the meal cost was $35.00 for two.
