Let's see, I go to a restaurant pay exorbitant prices for a dinner I could have made at half the cost and I am expected to add 20% to whatever the bill is?
Sounds like a tax to me.
I tip by service. If the server is polite, does a good job, allows me to feel comfortable and allows me and who I am with privacy, I'll tip well.
If the waiter treats me like shit, makes me feel like he/ she has better things to do or gets orders wrong, interrupts conversations and does so rudely, etc. I'll leave the tip I want.
Look, to me a tip is something I give out to show appreciation for the service. I expect the server to at the very least show appreciation for my business. It's one of the few ways I can truly show what I feel about a service.
I refuse to feel the "need" or "requirement" to tip. If the tip is mandatory, then add it to the price of the food and pay the servers more. If an establishment decides to add 17.5% as a courtesy so that I didn't have to figure out the tip.... I will NEVER do business there again. That establishment took away my right to decide for myself what I value the service at. They obviously do not care about my business.
Also, when I have wanted a TGIFriday's but didn't have that much money and was cheap on the tip, I tell the server this up front and usually they have understood, if they didn't and I got service I felt was different than the norm. I left nothing.
I don't think this belief system is just here in the US.
Not to threadjack but, this from the beginning bugs me, we can open a new thread for this:
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Originally Posted by Host
If you come here, acquaint yourself with our customs, you will have a more enjoyable visit.
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Ummm, does this go for Illegal Immigrants also? Or do you have double standards for Legal visitors and people who illegally come here to live.