” 30 to 50 percent tip “
Wat. I don’t eat out very often, but am usually at the 15% range.
Tip 20.
Tipping 30-50% will likely reduce a waiter’s pay. If a $50 meal suddenly costs $65-$75, plus tax, there will be fewer people ordering meals. Fewer diners means fewer tabs, fewer tabs means fewer tips and, ultimately, fewer waiters as the restaurant’s volume diminishes.
I drive a cab and am fine with a ten percent tip. As long as it’s least a dollar! Handing someone fifty cents is ridiculous - and has not happened to me.
Every day one or two people don’t tip. They don’t anger me. I figure they are poor or don’t know. Usually.
Most tip fifteen to twenty percent. I am grateful. Cab drivers at least here don’t make much.
Some tip up to a hundred percent. God bless them. It is very kind.
But as long as people pay the metered fare and are polite I don’t get angry. I understand I am one of the rare ones. Just yesterday a passenger was telling me about a driver who got angry at him for “only” tipping $5.
I have never and will never berate a passenger.
15% used to be a generous tip. 18% is what all inclusive venues bill customers, 20% is now the norm moving to 25%. Now the NYT wants us to tip a server 30 to 50%. Servers have very little skin in the game and they’re entitled to 30 to 50% over the gross receipts of the restaurant? I don’t think so, that becomes the norm restaurants will be closing right and left.
Tipping %50 in restaurants was always normal in NY. %10 if service was less than satisfactory.
Now, we just don’t go to restaurants.Fast food, Chinese and pizza. And home, of course. And the food is better!
(Outback is terrible!)