Everyone who "tips based on service". Stop that crap. Every server you tip has to pay out between five and eight percent of their tips to the kitchen and managers regardless of how great their service was.
You food didn't taste right? Not a service issue. Your beer flat? Not a service issue. They didn't have Patron Silver when you wanted to look like a baller and impress the ugly girl you're dating? Not a service issue!
Anyone who tips less than 15% in Calgary looks like a cheapskate loser unless your server was outright rude to you. If so, you should be talking to the manager anyways.
Tipping exists in our culture because we've decided that serving food is as menial a job as selling shoes or re-stocking shelves. Yet we expect servers to anticipate individual needs, perfectly asses delicate social situations (or, your girlfriend is dumping your useless ass and I came around to offer you water too many times so you're stiffing me? EFF you) and have detailed, technical knowledge about food, wine, beer and spirits, not to mention the savagely disgusting patriarchal expectation that they be "hot" when we go to Hudson's or wherever the fata we decide to go.
Servers deserve their tips, regardless of what they look like and anyone who treats them otherwise deserves ... chronic edema. Not, like lupus or anything, but something inconvenient, uncomfortable and chronic.
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