Largest tip you ever leave and why

I would start with smallmost tip but too many (something or other) here with story to claim.

Give me your feel goods bros.

You said tip and dick in the same post. Heh.

So that said, my biggest tip is about 6 to 6 1/2 inches.

I gave a kid 12 bucks yesterday to clean up my family's trays at Del Taco.

I have tipped the full price of my check before (60ish bucks). I have several family members in the restaurant industry from servers and cashiers to GMs. Having seen and heard their stories I normally tip 20% for average service. I have never completely stiffed someone but I have complained to management before.

Stoked said:

I have tipped the full price of my check before (60ish bucks). I have several family members in the restaurant industry from servers and cashiers to GMs. Having seen and heard their stories I normally tip 20% for average service. I have never completely stiffed someone but I have complained to management before.

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Very nice! My best tip that I can recall was back in college. My girlfriend at the time and I went to The Olive Garden. I think the bill was $40 and I gave a $20 tip. In general, MsSerp and I always leave 20+%. If the bill is $57.84, we simply round up and leave $12. Rarely do we give too much above that, maybe 25-30% every so often. Almost never do we give below that. There are so many factors that could lead to bad service.

Im like wes mantoooth. I always leave 20%. Good service or bad service. 20%
I round up as well

When I go to a gentlemen club and the "dancer" has a nice pair of jugs I give em a nice tip. My mushroom tip.

The Blue Elephant said:

When I go to a gentlemen club and the "dancer" has a nice pair of jugs I give em a nice tip. My mushroom tip.

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When I was in Vegas I got hot the first night playing blackjack and craps. The next day at lunch our waitress spilled our tray of drinks creating a thunderous clatter when the glass shattered on the ground. I felt bad (and like a big shot) so I gave her a $100 bill after we paid. She rejected it at first, but I insisted. I felt great for several hours until I pissed most of my winnings back playing blackjack and poker. I'm not a believer in karma, per se, so the entire thing is among my biggest regrets in the last year or so. Oh well

I usually give 20%, but I'm not afraid to stiff them if they give me bad service. Bad service = bad tip.

I don't go anywhere fancy, sticking to places like Red Robbin or Texas Roadhouse level. My tips range from about 15-25% depending on service. Biggest has been about 30-35% when it was amazing service. My worst is the only time I've done less than 15% and was by far the worst dining experience of my life. I did not order any appetizers or dessert and yet it took 3.5 hours. Not even a single soda refill despite requests...wouldn't see the waitress for an hour at a time...huge ordeal to get the check or to even place a simple order(lasagna with Dr Pepper and Fettuccini Alfredo with Diet Coke). She was very rude too. Other servers and customers would look at her and roll their eyes. I left about 20-25 pennies in the shape of an "F" at the edge of the table when I left. I have never felt any remorse at all. It was my only time that was extreme enough to not at least give 15%. Usually I give about 20%.

Interesting differences in tipping expectations country to country. In England and Germany it is not expected to tip much at all. Taxi drivers and such round it up like 1 or 2 euro max, but it is very common not to tip them at all. Same for restaurant servers, but there maybe as much as 3 euro, but it is usually viewed as a statement about the service. And the way you pay is a bit different than the US. For example if you are paying by credit card they bring a little credit card machine/receipt printer unit to your table and you are expected to tell them how much to run or enter the number yourself, to include the tip. So if the cost was 28 euro, I might tell him to run 30 or so. I didn't realize this distinction early on and let a guy just run the total on the ticket and he apologized if I felt he hadn't provided good service. I left a 5 euro note on the table, although leaving money on the table is not common at all.

That said, in the states my tipping philosophy is a balance between rewarding good service while realizing they need tips to survive since our minimum wage laws about servers are ridiculously stupid. I also go by the philosophy that if you cannot "afford" to tip, then you cannot afford to eat out either. The lowest I will give is 10% and that is if service was beyond atrocious. Max would be usually around 30% or so depending on, average probably 18-20% or so. Maybe once or twice I have left nothing, and a few times went as high as 50%+.

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I don't go anywhere fancy, sticking to places like Red Robbin or Texas Roadhouse level. My tips range from about 15-25% depending on service. Biggest has been about 30-35% when it was amazing service. My worst is the only time I've done less than 15% and was by far the worst dining experience of my life. I did not order any appetizers or dessert and yet it took 3.5 hours. Not even a single soda refill despite requests...wouldn't see the waitress for an hour at a time...huge ordeal to get the check or to even place a simple order(lasagna with Dr Pepper and Fettuccini Alfredo with Diet Coke). She was very rude too. Other servers and customers would look at her and roll their eyes. I left about 20-25 pennies in the shape of an "F" at the edge of the table when I left. I have never felt any remorse at all. It was my only time that was extreme enough to not at least give 15%. Usually I give about 20%.

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You have more patience than me, I would have walked out, and have done so a few times.

QuinSnydersHair said:

Very nice! My best tip that I can recall was back in college. My girlfriend at the time and I went to The Olive Garden. I think the bill was $40 and I gave a $20 tip. In general, MsSerp and I always leave 20+%. If the bill is $57.84, we simply round up and leave $12. Rarely do we give too much above that, maybe 25-30% every so often. Almost never do we give below that. There are so many factors that could lead to bad service.

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You are right there are. Bad management, bad kitchen, other servers called in sick...but if you are even half way observant you can tell. Also good servers will also compensate. They come to the table and check up on you and explain that the kitchen is behind or whatever. I always tip well but those that really put effort into it get more out of me.

My old roommate and I once got our pizza for free because it took so long to get to us.
We tipped the full amount of the pizza, 20ish bucks

I don't think I have ever tipped an unusually large nor an very small amount, I''m solidly in the 10-30% range, usually at 20-25%.

I remember one time my fiancé and I were eating at a restaurant that was packed full of people (there was some young people's engineering fair), and so we expected it was going to take a long time. Well, it did take a really long time, and everybody (mainly the moms) were bitching to the workers…meanwhile we just didn't say anything, because we realized beforehand it was going to take a long time. Anyways, long story short, since we were so patient and kind, they gave both of us a coupon for a free meal the next time we came in. I made sure to tip well after that.