Tipping is a brilliant scheme. Customer service is better in restaurants than in any other retail establishments of like caliber. Wait staff know that they will experience immediate consequences of service, good or bad. I always get excellent service in restaurants. Timely, professional and very personable.
> I always get excellent service in restaurants. Timely, professional and very personable.
That hasn’t been my experience. The “service” I experience is for the most part is mediocre. Tipping pretty much encourages servers to handle more customers at once.
“I always get excellent service in restaurants.”
Me too. Namely because I don’t go to many and the ones I do go to I go to repeatedly, and I tip well for good service. At one restaurant, I ask for a specific server every time and tip like crazy, including an extra tip for the sushi chefs. This server knows our names and what we order; we practically don’t need menus. And when we bring guests, it’s almost embarrassing as the staff greets us effusively and by name. The sushi chefs always carve us large chunks of yellow tail, too.