I left some a-hole a dollar tip because he delivered cold food, paid more attention to the young girls sitting behind us, and was on his cell phone at the water station rather than getting us a refill on our drinks.
The people that complain over this crap should really eat at restaurants with poor service more often to see why some of us tip so low.
Given that the tip is exactly 1% of the bill, I’d have to say there was poor service here, if this story is true.
Why bother to tip? At least here in Australia we don’t have that problem. Tipping is unacceptable as in most of the Pacific Rim from Japan down.
PS - In Japan tipping is perceived as insulting.
Agreed. I don’t believe in tipping as a necessity at all, but then again, I don’t eat out. I was a restaurant general manager for a couple of years, ran a kitchen at another point, and a deli when I was young. I’m intimately familiar with the process. I’ve also lived in another country, where tipping isn’t customary (used to be illegal, in fact). Imagine, going to a restaurant, and good service was expected without paying a racketeering fee (people do touch, spit into, and put much, much more into other people’s food when angry). Once upon a time I used to tip well, but I have since moved to an area with quite possibly the worst service in the world. So I choose not to eat out, but on the rare, rare occasion that I do, IF I tip, it’s based entirely upon how pleased I am with the service, and I know exactly what it should be, I’ve done it myself for years.
I’ve found that those who have the best attitudes and give the best service don’t mind when they don’t get tipped on occasion. IF it happens a lot, they change jobs. Some places require YOU (a server) to pay the restaurant for the priviledge to waitress there. No one deserves a tip, no one. It’s a gift, and ungrateful people always feel entitled. Now, is a customer is rude AND doesn’t tip, that’s another story. I’ve seen the entire spectum, and I can say this, people who don’t tip and are nice, are usually more rewarding to serve than people who do tip and are nasty. And there’s many other possibilities in between.