Seriously though, 15% as that's the low one on the card reader's display, cash on table for good service in a real restaurant.
I usually pay cash to tip to the waitstaff- but we have all been taxed enough and we both don’t need to be hit twice with it.
And I am not cheap as have worked in the hospitality business my entire life so I overtip anyway. Howevah - I do watch my money.
When I was just starting out on my own and paying my own way, poor as a snake, I got a taste of sour grapes with my cell phone that charged by the instant it hit the cell towers in the 80’s - that message you were required to hear about leaving a message, pressing one and blah blah blah - I paid so much to hear that crap without being able to skip it. I bet it cost me a thousand dollars over the time I had that damn bag phone. Not a tax but I was still not happy about it.
I paid $24 for ONE call I made even though I hung up when no one answered. It hit three cell towers when driving downtown Charlotte, NC. I called to question the charge and was told it was $8 every time it hit a tower then.
Seriously though, 15% as that's the low one on the card reader's display, cash on table for good service in a real restaurant.