[IliketoPuck]

Sadly no, your tip is broken down regardless of who screws up your experience.

My suggestion would be to always try to tip in cash, as that gives the server the biggest leeway in compensating for situations like you mentioned. In most places, if you pay by debit or credit, the restaurant will take extra off from the server as a fee for the credit/debit useage.....server's get hosed in my opinion. The best way is to simply tip in cash, if the kitchen was particularly good during service, I would kick them an extra couple bucks from my pocket. If they were bad, I would keep the money to myself. At the end of the night ideally your server wants a ton of cash tips, and flat credit card/debit card statements, since it makes it easier to tip out etc..

But to be honest, it is an imperfect system, and the reality is that the server is the face of the restaurant, if your service is bad, for whatever reason (kitchen, drinks, poor server, etc.) the only one that pays at the end of the day is the server, everyone else gets their money regardless.