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Originally Posted by 4X4
IMO, the only rudeness in this example is that the tip was only $1.88. I always round my tips to an even dollar. If my bill was $12.12, I'd pay at least $15 even for not so great service. Mediocre service and I'd scoop a toonie out of the change from a $20, and good service combined with hotness is an automatic $20 even.
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Wow. You are a big tipper! I consider the "norm" to be to use the percentages. 15% for average/good, and upwards. Smoking hot looks alters accordingly.
Now, in your example you are just over-tipping.
If your bill is $12.12, we can assume this is $11.54 before 5% sales tax. So from this if you want to tip 15% = $1.73. (and yes, I would adjust to even it out, but she can have the excess change). So $1.88 is OVER 15% and 15% is a pretty
normal tip for
average/good service.
Now if you leave her with $15 even, you are tipping her 25%!
And your $18 move is 51% ...
Do what you want, but don't call us cheap while you continue to give no motivation for bad servers to up their game...
Now as another question, what do you tip taxi drivers, pizza guys, and hair-cutters?