I was a waiter for many years from the time I was 17 until I was done with college around 25 and I busted ass doing it and usually got tipped well. However, it depends where you work. A waiter at Pizza hut will certainly have to work much more for the dollars than a waiter at Spago and may work just as hard or harder. Now that I have money, I sympathize for waiters at lower price restaurants, especially when they bust ass and are nice. I tip well, usually 25%-30% at these places. However, at higher class and much more expensive restaurants, you often run into snottier waiters, bartenders and hosts.
Just because you want to charge me $150 for a fucking 16oz ribe-eye, does not mean you are going to get $30 (20%) for bringing me the plate. If you want 20%, you are going to have to be really cool, work really hard and justify the price of your over priced food. If you add 20% because I have more than 8 people or something like that, I will tell you to go blow yourself. I will tip what I feel your service was worth, whether it is 1 person or 20 in my party.
Mitch
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