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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 541415" data-attributes="member: 483"><p>For a casual dining restaurant / sit-down I still go by the old 20% scale. Generally I think people should if they have no better reason for doing something else because, that is how a server will traditionally interpret the tip. So in other words, terrible service = 0%, phenominal = 20%, anything between is something between. Having served for so long though I generally give servers the benefit of the doubt. My personal scale will be more like terrible service = 0%, bad service = 10%, phenomenal = 20%, anything between bad and phenomenal will be between 10 - 20%. I have only ever left nothing twice in my life, one of the times the server followed me out the door and tried to fight me because of it. (Tells you generally how his service probably was.)</p><p></p><p>$8 on a $25 ticket is 32%.</p><p>$9 = 36%</p><p>$10 = 40%</p><p>...</p><p>$20 = 80%</p><p></p><p>So I would say that just about any tip you are leaving a server would be considered good. But let me tell you a story about a regular customer we used to have at Longhorn. His name was Randy. He came in at least once/wk, was very wealthy. The servers always fought over who got him because he would tip at least $50 no matter what he got. He always ate alone, so sometimes his actual food bill would just be $20 but the tip would be $50. Sometimes he would tip $150 on a $50 bill. I was new when I first learned about him. Obviously we gave him the best service we could and so they wouldn't let him sit with me at first. You kind of had to earn your rights to be on his list. I didn't even get him my first summer. Finally toward the end of my last summer they let me serve him. I did everything right, it was a slow time so I lucked out and he was my only table and I gave him my total attention. One of the most thorough jobs I did when I worked at that place. He left me a $20 tip on a $20 check, the lowest tip I had ever heard of him leaving anyone. Granted, it was a 100% tip, but all I had ever heard of him leaving was 200 - 300% so it was a let-down. I left shortly after that and never had another chance to serve him again.</p><p></p><p>It ate at me for a long time why he didn't tip me like he tipped everyone else. I went over and over the table for like 2 years in my head trying to figure out what I did wrong. Finally one night when I was visiting home from college I was at a random bar and ran into one of the other male servers that worked at the same time as me. I asked him if Randy still came in. He said he did. I told him how I had been so disappointed with my tip from Randy so long ago, how much it bothered me because I tried so hard, etc. The guy was like, "Randy doesn't tip any of the guys like he does the girls. That's why we just let the girls have him." It blew my mind. I literally lost sleep over that for 2 years. I thought I had done my best and I failed. For someone who is used to being the best at everything, being the best ee everywhere he goes, it was huge to me. But in reality it was just because I had a **** instead of tits, nothing I could have done about it.</p><p></p><p>I honestly hadn't thought about Randy at all since college. I hadn't even thought of him during this thread until now. Prime example of why you should treat people equally though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 541415, member: 483"] For a casual dining restaurant / sit-down I still go by the old 20% scale. Generally I think people should if they have no better reason for doing something else because, that is how a server will traditionally interpret the tip. So in other words, terrible service = 0%, phenominal = 20%, anything between is something between. Having served for so long though I generally give servers the benefit of the doubt. My personal scale will be more like terrible service = 0%, bad service = 10%, phenomenal = 20%, anything between bad and phenomenal will be between 10 - 20%. I have only ever left nothing twice in my life, one of the times the server followed me out the door and tried to fight me because of it. (Tells you generally how his service probably was.) $8 on a $25 ticket is 32%. $9 = 36% $10 = 40% ... $20 = 80% So I would say that just about any tip you are leaving a server would be considered good. But let me tell you a story about a regular customer we used to have at Longhorn. His name was Randy. He came in at least once/wk, was very wealthy. The servers always fought over who got him because he would tip at least $50 no matter what he got. He always ate alone, so sometimes his actual food bill would just be $20 but the tip would be $50. Sometimes he would tip $150 on a $50 bill. I was new when I first learned about him. Obviously we gave him the best service we could and so they wouldn't let him sit with me at first. You kind of had to earn your rights to be on his list. I didn't even get him my first summer. Finally toward the end of my last summer they let me serve him. I did everything right, it was a slow time so I lucked out and he was my only table and I gave him my total attention. One of the most thorough jobs I did when I worked at that place. He left me a $20 tip on a $20 check, the lowest tip I had ever heard of him leaving anyone. Granted, it was a 100% tip, but all I had ever heard of him leaving was 200 - 300% so it was a let-down. I left shortly after that and never had another chance to serve him again. It ate at me for a long time why he didn't tip me like he tipped everyone else. I went over and over the table for like 2 years in my head trying to figure out what I did wrong. Finally one night when I was visiting home from college I was at a random bar and ran into one of the other male servers that worked at the same time as me. I asked him if Randy still came in. He said he did. I told him how I had been so disappointed with my tip from Randy so long ago, how much it bothered me because I tried so hard, etc. The guy was like, "Randy doesn't tip any of the guys like he does the girls. That's why we just let the girls have him." It blew my mind. I literally lost sleep over that for 2 years. I thought I had done my best and I failed. For someone who is used to being the best at everything, being the best ee everywhere he goes, it was huge to me. But in reality it was just because I had a **** instead of tits, nothing I could have done about it. I honestly hadn't thought about Randy at all since college. I hadn't even thought of him during this thread until now. Prime example of why you should treat people equally though. [/QUOTE]
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