Re: Stiffing
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The tipping element also keeps the waitstaff from being indifferent to the service you receive.
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Doesn't this run counter to the entitlement complex we are seeing from most of the waiters who have posted in this thread that they consider 15% to be a bad tip?
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Yes it does. I know that over my years I have given bad service a few times and got stiffed and I didn't mind it as I knew it was justified. Sometimes you get busy and there are only so many people on and that happens. Definitely the exception not the rule.
Non US people have different cultures so I don't blame them for being ignorant when they come to the US. For US born people not to tip when they receive good service is ridiculous. Maybe they grew up in a poor family or older family that was raised during the depression and never evolved once times got better.
If your policy is not to tip do everyone a favor and get takeout. Sure someone still has to put it together for you but it is less work with no refills, small talk etc.
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