i really hate it when people through in an oppinion about something they know nothing about aOriginally posted by SilverGS
Usually tip pizza delivery guy $3-$5 depending how long it took. If driving conditions are not good then I usually give $5.
As for restaurants it just depends on the service.
What I hate are all these restaurants doing automatic gratuity. 6 or more ppl = automatic 18% regardless of how you do. My idea of a tip is when you provide good service above what you are supposed to do. Making sure everything is alright, keeping drinks topped up, good attitude. Not just take order and put food down. Its just a way for already overpriced restaurants to save salary cost by paying minimum wage but offering up automatic gratuity as incentive for servers.
I used to be a server, (gets QUITE hectic at times, i went to school for accounting and it was easier then serving)
a server will tip out on all food and all alcohol ordered, so lets say you come in with 10 people and spend like 200$, the server will then owe the kitchen and bartender anywhere between 4 and 10$ depending on what they have (ie liquor tip out is higher) so when some drunk dumbass goes to pay and doesnt tip, the server wasted the past hour or two serving your table and actually loses money not to mention the fact they could have had other tables instead of you,
so no auto tip is not bad, most servers will try and work for it anyway, its not always there fault, sometimes management or the hosts are pricks and overseat the server, and crash them and server is running their ass off just to stay on top of things and theres only so much they can do when this happens, then a table tips poorly when its not the servers fault