“I always tip in cash, never as part of the credit card payment. And that’s only for actual table service, where the waiter comes and takes my order and then brings the food. Decent service gets 20% pre-tax.”
The thing that I hate are the portable credit card readers that they bring to your table. In one case, in a state already paying a ‘Living Wage’, which means the tip is built into the price of the food, I didn’t leave an additional tip, and the people went ballistic. So, I like the idea of saying that I’ll leave cash, but then only leave a few bucks, if that.
But in the end, I’m, mostly eat out these days where tips are expected or are small, which is Europe and Asia. The US sit-down restaurants can shove it with their entitlement attitude.
Yeah, I’m not fond of the entitled-to-tips attitude either. If some waiter gave me a hard time about the tip, I’d probably take the time to explain politely to the restaurant owner exactly why I was never going to eat there again and what I was going to tell people about that restaurant.
In any case, dining out is getting to be a seldom thing for us, for a variety of reasons.