But again, if you have that little respect for them why eat the food they make. The food you ingest is a hell of a lot more important than a couple bucks in your pocket.
You’re the perfect example of the kind of person that makes food service such horrible work. You act like they’re out to get you, that it’s all some great conspiracy trying to steal from you. If your money is that precious to you don’t eat out. Because you’re probably there complaining the entire time anyway, you’re not having fun because you think you’re being robbed, the people you’re with aren’t having fun because you’re grumpy, and your server knows the whole time you’re going to leave a nothing tip so they’re trying to avoid even going near your table.
You forget that if restaurant owners paid more they’d have to charge more. So that precious 8% you don’t want to give would just be in the bill. I’d rather pay it to the server, they’re the people doing all the hard work, and when I give it to them directly they get the option of not giving some to our overreaching government. I consider it that they partially work for me, I can tell because I’m paying them. And I believe strongly that you get what you paid for in this world. You pay very little for crappy service, I pay a bit more and tend to get great service.
“And I believe strongly that you get what you paid for in this world. You pay very little for crappy service, I pay a bit more and tend to get great service.”
So did you make an intellectual decision that 20% gets you the maximum value you can possibly get or are you not following your own advice and getting even better service for 25%, or 30%, or 35%, etc... Get my drift? You made the decision that 20% is the breaking point between your desire for good service and what you would be willing to pay for that good service.
I made the decision that I will not get one bit more better service at 10% than I would at 15% a long time ago and to date I believe I am right and you are wrong.