When I eat out, the tip is automatically there for the server to lose. They have to try pretty darned hard to lose it, too. And it doesn't take a whole lot for the tip to grow. I'll go to 20% or 25% if my socks are sufficiently knocked off by the service I've gotten.
I don't go below 15% unless I'm making a point, and then, I leave nothing. Whenever I stiff a waiter (and I've only done it a handful of times), I leave a polite but honest note saying why.
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