First, it is clear you have never waited tables. So you may not know that wait staff get paid very little and are expected to make it up in tips. Some do, some don't. And sad for them, the waiter or waitress gets the blame for everything, even those things that are out of their control.
Second, maybe you should eat at better restaurants. The kind of environment you describe is not one that is conducive to service that should justify a good tip, but then it is also one in which the wait-staff is overworked, underpaid and obviously undertipped.
Seriously, tip well for good service and not so well for bad service. Otherwise someone might get the impression that you have a sense of entitlement yourself—that you are entitled to have people work for you for free.
Exactly. Badablonde seems to think she’s entitled to someone else’s labor.
Maybe she’s a communist?
entitlement....they aren't working for me, they are serving me a meal at the behest of their employer...they work for him.
I almost always tip at a restaurant, never tipped my barber (his shop) now tip the gal who cuts my hair....she works in a salon. I never tip my mechanic and in 30 years in the garage business, never recieved a tip. I don't tip lawn care people, cleaners, retail sales people, most of whom work for others. Each occupation has its expectations and a person employed should perform to the best of his ability for his employer and therefore job security.