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Originally Posted by willravel
15% is a minimum. I still got food and they still worked so it's not as if I'm paying for nothing. My default tip for food is 20%. For alcohol, my default tip is 30%. For a haircut, it's 15% rounded up to the next $10.
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My default is 15%. That's for average service. Good service gets 20% or so. Great service even more.
However paying for shit service is stupid.
Example: My birthday a few years ago, the restaurant was almost empty. The waitress disappeared for more than an hour between serving our drinks/salads and me finally flagging her down (the first I had seen her) to ask about the rest of our meal. She (in a very bitchy tone) says she'll have to check. It takes her another twenty minutes. She finally comes back to serve us our meal. No apology for forgetting us for an hour, never asking how we are doing/need drinks/etc. Should I pay extra for this "service"?
Long story short, bad service = shit/no tip. Don't like it? Do a better job. I have left a $15 tip on a $35 meal before because the service was fantastic.
(as far as a haircut goes if I rounded up to the next $10 that would be an 80% tip so no)
As far as delivery guys go? Lets say the guy on the phone says it'll be 45 minutes.
Get it here in 20 or so and get a good tip (20-25%).
Get here in before the 45 minutes and get an average tip (15%)
Get it here in an hour, get a couple bucks, but guess what? If you take an hour and a half to deliver my meal you aren't getting a tip and no, I don't care what took you so long.