How Much Do You Tip?

i dunno. i usually try to give them 5 bucks for every 20 i order, depending on quantity. more in bad weather or if it's a long distance.

yeah.. at restaurants, my pet peeve is my drink.. be it soda, water, beer, it should NEVER go empty, and i am a complete @hole about it. it starts at 15%, and goes down to 10 if my drink hits bottom and she's not there within the minute to refill. every minute after that is another percentage, down to nothing.
 
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Here in Indiana, the sales takx is 7%, so I usually double the sales tax and round up to the next even dollar.(about 15%)

If service was better, I add another buck, maybe 2..
 
15% at restaurants, more for great service, less for bad. Delivery $3-$5.

We dine at Ihop weekly and once we got a terrible waitress. She took our order, brought us our food 20 minutes later (10 being the norm, we understand that the time it takes to cook the food is out of her control, but it was sitting on the counter for a bit before she brought it to us) never checked on us once through our entire meal (and my boyfriend finished his soda before the food came and wanted another, never got it so I shared mine) and then we were waiting another 25 minutes after we had finished for her to finally come and give us our check. The kicker? There was a table on the other side of the isle that she checked on frequently and the one behind ours as well. It wasn't a particulalrly busy night. Needless to say, she did not get a good tip at all, and we make sure to look out for her whenever we go just in case. Would not want to get her again. That was the only bad experience we've ever had there.
 
I usually tip the pizza delivery guy about $5, but there's also a delivery surcharge added to the bill and I don't know how much of that he gets (I say he because we've never had a lady delivery person). I'm glad you asked this - I always wondered too.
 
I tip 5 bux for all home deliveries, regardless of what it is or how much is ordered... Of course I have never had a bad experience with deliveries, its pretty straight forward, they ring the doorbell, I pay and recieve the goods.. Kinda hard for them to be rude unless they are just going out of there way to be.
 
Whats a tip . ? :confused:
 
I started off waiting tables and still do sometimes and I must say I am impressed by how much most of you tip. Industry standard is between 15 and 20% of the bill although service does play a major role:) I tip at least 5 on EVERYTHING no matter what-poor service or not but i have been known to tip 100% of the bill. What most people do not understand is wait staff doesn't usually make even minimum wage salaries. My servers are paid $2.75 per hr (not my choice) so they DEPEND on tips.
 
When someone brings food to the door, I'd feel bad giving them less than $5, regardless of the bill. They're always really nice and it's face-to-face, so I tend to over-tip if it's a small-ish total.
 
Weezer said:
Whats a tip . ? :confused:
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Friend of mine doesn't tip the pizza guy. I won't eat pizza at his house. I believe they put footnotes under each customers name in the computer.

He wonders why the pizza is cold and the store less then 2 miles from his house but mines hot and I'm 7 miles from the store.

Told him if he tipped well his would be hot and have no spitwads under the pepperonis lol
 
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