I tend to tip pretty good, especially if I have great service. I do the bare minimum of 10% if the service is lousy (I've tipped less and complained as well) and I've given up to 50% (but that was to my sister-in-law
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As for the auto-gratuity. I can see it as good and bad. It honestly depends on the server. I remember when I graduated from high school, about 30-40 of us went out to dinner. Well because we were a huge party the tip was already included. Well our server, since she knew she was being tipped no matter what, was shitty. It took her 30 minutes to come and take our drink orders, she forgot my table entirely. It took her another 30-45 minutes to bring the drinks out (and again my table still hadn't gotten an order in for drinks). It took like an hour for our food to come and she didn't come to check on us at all. Finally our school student council president (who was a friend of mine) when and complained to the manager (she did it because being the student council president she was an eloquent speaker). The manager actually complied with our request to take her auto-gratuity off. None of us felt she deserved it when she refused to check on us, during a 2-2 1/2 hour time frame only came to the table like 3 times and was a bitch. We each only left her like a dollar in tip, which is sad considering our bill was between 5-6 hundred dollars. But she didn't deserve the 18% tip.
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Originally Posted by LeslieAGD
I know this is off topic, but I detest when a server brings your food and then immediately sets the bill down on the table.
HELLO?!? How incredibly rude is that!?! Let me enjoy my meal in peace for a few minutes at the bare minimum!
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I see where you are coming from, but I'd much rather a server give me the bill then. I absolutely detest sitting at the table waiting and waiting and waiting for your bill. You can't find your server because who the heck knows where they are, and your just like "okay I'd really like to leave now". That's happened so many times to me. I wonder if it's just an Arizona thing?