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You rdy for the normal answer?
15% if done right. More if exceptional but few and far between now a days.
About once a year or maybe even less I dont tip due to totally foul service.
For instance. Couple years back I went with the GF and a friend to a local breakfast joint. This place is mostly inhabited by older folk. We get there and its mostly full besides a just vacated table. So we go to the table with the hostess chick. Now most of the staff is older as well, except one kid who appears by his age(id say 12) to be someone's little kin. So we sit down with crumbs on the table. The kid comes over to the table and instead of wiping from back to fron and either cupping his hand or simply brushing it off on the floor, he wipes it side to side throwing all particles and crumbs on all 3 of us sitting there. I look at him like WTF dude, get a grip on yourself. He quickly scurries away. So we let it go, nothing big. Hes fucking 12. Shit, when I was twelve I was working solo in our own cafe cooking and managing daily shit.
Anyway, were there, were hungry. We start checking the menu. Well it appeared they had just upped all their prices since my menu was 75 cents less across the borad on the whole menu than the menu that my GF had. We noticed and so jokingly when the server chick, some older perm haired ole bat, comes with pen and pad in hand to take our order I say to her, "so which one do we order from this oine is cheaper... Big smile and half laughing.
She snatches (Literally grabbed it u p quick from my hands) the menu from me and says "well certainly not the cheaper one" and immediately walks in the back with the lesser menu.
I was like wow... not only is she not joking with us, but she just grabbed shit from a paying customer and ran off. So totally unprofessional, even for a small breakfast joint.
So, we finished eating. It was good. When we left that woman hovered on us at our table when we got up. We went to pay right by the front door and she has the kid finish cleaning while she comes and stands directly behind the cashier hawk eying us. Like not hiding it one bit, literally right there staring at us. I made sure to stare back as I wrote my signature out on a tipless receipt.
I wasnt even expecting to get my food 75 cents cheaper. I was simply making a joke and pointing it out that they had missed a menu. Well, she handled it wrong and did not get a tip. They should also slap some common sense into the 12 year old. Though I dont blame him. Kids can be dumb, and they should make sure hes not doing shit like that.
Needless to say I havent been back. A shame since they had decent BnG...
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