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How much do you tip?

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ECfreeski3
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one time we were smoking up the pizza dude and i asked him what the average tip was, and the answer was really brutal, he said "most" people just rounded up to the next dollar. so im curious, how much do you tip?
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Jordan
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20%

Not tipping is one of the worst things In my books.
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Caveman.
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Rounding up to the next dollar is nothing, at the most thats a 99 cent tip. I usually do a minimum of 10% but say Im at a bar and I get a $4 drink I usually give the bartender or cocktail waitress $5 and let them keep the rest. If I have a tab it will be different. But ya, 10-20% depending on how good or bad the service is. I hate cheap people and people who wont tip.
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Sklar
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depends on the waiter/waitress/delivery person etc.
if they are nice, more if not less
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pomme-de-terre
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finding my house/ getting down my dirt road and driveway/ following whatever special strange instructions i give the pizza guy (it puts the pizza in the basket!!") is pretty brutal, so i hit those motherfuckers with at least 25%

waiters depend, if they refill my drink a bunch and get my order right and everything it can be anywhere from 10-20%



and i dont tip my hookers.
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prontocuts.com
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Exactly how I feel
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deleted5
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when I'm really drunk and stumble in to the diner ill tip huge amounts like 50%
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CypressGrove
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i always overtip if the service was good. shitty service = shittty tip. i worked at a restaurant for a long ass time. i hate shitty service. i dont care if they dont smile or whatev, but have that shit locked down and keep the beer comin.
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Inbred_Redneck
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10-20% depending on the service, nothing if the waiter is a dirtbag and if i have to serve myself half the time
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Tinga
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20% is the new 15%
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BrewskiJr
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20% is my base. If its shitty service, ill tip around 15. If its amazing, ill usually go 23 or so.
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SteezyOhio
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15% sometime a lil more if its good service
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treebeard
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lower totals (around $3-5) i usually do like 50%. but that only really happens at this one awesome taco place that i go to every thursday.
more average totals like $8+, i stick to about 20-30%.

i worked in food for a few years, so i tip well
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CypressGrove
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also, when you take your car/motorcycle to a mechanic, tip them too. they'll remember you. they usually deserve it.
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AlexF
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Depends where you are and what its for. For restaurants;

USA/Canada 15-20%

UK: 10-15%

Most of Europe; round up to the nearest 5 or 10.

For drinks I only tip in the US/Canada (around a buck a drink). Only exception to this is in clubs where I'll sometimes tip a bartender well at the start and normally get served much faster on future orders (this seems to work well anywhere in the world).

In the end the difference between under and over tipping is pretty small compared to the price of the food/drink so I tend to overtip (might also do this because Brits have such a bad, but deserved, rep for being poor tippers in the US and I don't like the idea of that label).
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dickhead1
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20%s the normal.

this thread is actually amusing, good thought
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sack
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now that i'm not broke 90% of the time I'm trying to tip at least 15% all the time... I feel horrible when I don't tip. depending on the service and how much money i have it would be 15-20%
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Broseph_Stalin
Posts: 3745 - Karma: 179
move the decimal point to the left one

double it

round doun to nearest dollar

tip
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Nathn
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thats pretty much 20%. Good way to solve it though.
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RockyMountnHigh
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I was once drunk and gave the guy a cheque for my life savings. I am now living off welfare
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Caveman.
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It will always be 20% if he follows that formula every time.
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
yo, super big dilemma

so, my absolute favourite thai place (and i know of other places that do this too) has awesome take out.
I go in for takeout always, and pay by debit or credit. when i pay by credit, the line that says tip shows up on the receipt, but i just sign it and its no big deal

when i pay by debit, it also has the stupid tip thing, where it like makes you input the amount, and asks you if you want to cancel and all that

either way, they seem to get pretty cheesed when i don't put in a tip. but i mean, you tip for service, like someone waiting on you, or someone driving your food to you. You don't usually tip just cause they cooked your shit do you?

This also happens at some other places where they leave the tip option on their debit machines, and most of the time i just cancel it because it doesnt make any sense to me

can someone tell me if i'm being a moral douchebag?
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Myfirstname.
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Like so many others, I've worked at a restaurant so I never tip below 20 percent. The waiter/waitress would have to be a real douchenozzle to get little or no tip.
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comeatmebro
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i wouldn't tip that shit either.

i usually tip about 20% for an above average waitress and a bit more for a good one. if they're an asshole, i'll leave them like pennies just to be a dick.
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omnomnom
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20% always. if they were bad, then 15%. people work their ass off for not very much. and they even have to deal with douches and scum all day long. i was eating dinner with my friend one night. she decided the waitress was horrible (she really wasn't, she just accidentally spilled water everywhere) and didn't leave a single penny for a tip. we got in the biggest fight. imo, not tipping is one of the most douchey things ever.
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.brian
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nobody tips cashiers anymore than their change i dont think. I wouldn't consider that douchey. that'd be like tipping the guy at mcdonalds.
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Nathn
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$21.25

2.13 x 2 = 4.16 v $4

4/21.25= .1882
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Thenowhereman42
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I'm a pizza boy and $3 is average, $5 is rad, and I've gotten up to $20. One time I took a double order to the same hotel and they both gave me $20. If someone tips me $1 and orders again I won't go out of my way to make sure their order is good. And I ring up the order (no coupons for them they can pay full price), and make the food (lol not hooking you up on toppings). Personally I usually tip $7.

I used to work at Dominos instead of a good pizza place though and I made about $1 less average per order, which obviously is a shit ton of money at the end of a month or something. At Dominos I had no control over the orders or food though.
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sack
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well technically the cooks are providing a service to you. i just tip less in situations like that, like 5-10%?
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Gnarshred
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Counter service generally gets 10-15% ideally. but its not a huge deal. Most of them don't expect anyone under 25 to tip anyway. I try to when I can. I've worked counters and it sucks if you don't get like 10 bucks in the pocket eachy night
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Ben.
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10-15% for things like pizza delivery where theres not much interaction. 20% pretty much all the time at a sit down restaurant, unless i get really bad service. then less.
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squibble
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anywhere from 10-20% depending on how broke I am and how big the bill is, but ive not tipped before if the waitress/waiter is a bitch, your paying extra for service so it shouldnt be automatic. in europe people don't tip. people who are cheap and barely tip (always 10% or lower) piss me off
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PhaedeD
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15-20 sometimes more depending.
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prontocuts.com
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But do you not make min wage? I was offered a job as a driver and the pay was $12 an hour plus tips

I remember being a butcher, making min wage, cutting off my fuckin finger tips, never getting tipped. everyone watch that clip i posted, it is the truth.
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DaveM
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15 or more depending on my levels of intoxication
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Steezy_IN_KC
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To Insure Prompt service... Being a college student i am constantly ignored or served after an older couple. I see the waiters thinking that i am young don't have the money and my age range typically tips far less than that of older generations. I do tip well; because i put myself in there shoes. I also understand that they do so much work for what they are paid!

A personal story of mine is that i went to J Alexanders which is a very fancy stake house in Kansas CIty; it was for my college formal my freshman year. I had 2 ladies with me and a good friend of mine. We are seated and then shortly after order. Before we know it a whole hour had past but in our conversation we lost track of time. The manager of the store himself came over and apologized for any inconvenience and explained that diner was on the house and he would bring use anything else we wanted. So we order another appetizer and explained that we would also like a desert after our meal.

Once diner was complete and all was said and done the waiter came by one more time to apologize and said good bye. I said sir may i please have the bill i would like to know what our meal cost to know the exact price at which i should tip you. He brings the bill and its 250 dollars (with all the extras and all that stuff) Being in the mindset to spend a good chunk of change i slipped him a hundred and said thank you for treating us so well this evening. I appreciate you working hard and not basing the way you teat us on our age. just remember this next time you have some college kids roll in here. Then i after banged walked out and had a girl on each arm! But in all honesty its a true story and i hope more waiters could be like him.

This tread also reminded me of a song.


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Caveman.
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21.25 - cost of meal
decimal place to the left
2.125
*2
=4.25 amount of tip

OR

21.25-cost of meal
20% tip
21.25*.2
=4.25 amount of tip

4.25/21.25=.20 or 20%

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Caveman.
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missed the part about rounding up but ya other than that, close.
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Jake...
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Im a student right now that is poor as fuck. I only tip if i am given a reason to.

Why do we tip people we can do things our selves? I can make a pizza.. I can drive a cab.. I can open a beer for you..

We should be tipping people like doctors and shit.

Anyways, i plan to make up my tips when im older and have money to do so. Granted, if the cab driver actually has a conversation with me, the bar tender talks to me, and actually i never order delivery that was a poor example. the grammer in this response blows but i dont care and am to lazy to correct it... where i was going with that is I will tip them.


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Ben.
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oh forgot to mention, i definitely dont tip at a counter, unless i have change in which case ill throw it in the tip jar.
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ECfreeski3
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haha i think doctors already (rightfully) get plenty of money. but yeah i agree tipping is a weird system, but i always tip a lot. as someone said the difference of leaving a good or bad tip is nothing compared to the food or service youre buying, and it sucks to deal with people for a job and not get reasonable tips
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aznsteeze
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i usually give 15% or a little more if they are really good. Does anyone else tip hotel maids? cause i always do and when staying in a room with my friends in quebec, i was amazed to learn that they have never tipped the maids before. in regards to restaurants, i have had some shit experiences where the waitress was such a bitch and stared at our empty dishes (at a sushi buffet) yet refused to take any away. at the end, my friend brought the massive pile of dishes to the counter and said you forgot to take these and we didnt leave a tip.
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Kangbang
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i lol'd
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ShredTheGnarnia
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* i believe he said down, but yeah.

i go around 20%
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el_chupacabra
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most waiters and waitresses don't make minimum wage, that's why it's so important to tip well, most of the time expected tips are deducted from what the owner thinks their wages should be

i tip 20-30, usually pretty generous because i'm generally with stingy friends and i'm pretty much just a firm believer in karma, i've managed to actually score a couple bowls from random waiters and shit that i run into around town...good deeds leave fucking marks with people that's for sure
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spruitm
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I dont really go by exact percent.  I go something like this
>$5 = $1 tip
5-10 = $2
10-15 = $3
15-20 = $4

Never really gets higher than that.  I always give an even dollar amount so it easier to add cause I usually pay with a card
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Hermondo
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same here. a solid 20%
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Downtofilm
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My friend is a ratard are taxi was something like $7.40 and he gave her a 20 and only asked for 5 back? He tipped her like 7.60 I forget
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Rachy
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standard = 16.5%

California tax is 8.25, I double it and then usually round up. If service is bad, I round down.

For drinks, $1 a drink unless its over $10 then I adjust on the service. I once had a $27 mojito. I gave a $5 tip.

Kinda wonder how much the people that get $100 shots tip.


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PaleCelery
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I give more than just the tip. BALLS DEEP SON.
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pomme-de-terre
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/thread
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