How do you tip?

I'll usually tip between 15-20%, unless service was real bad, altough I can't say I'm very hard to plese on that front. If I go out to a restaurant, I'll usually not mind waiting a while for my food since I usually only go out to eat when I don't have anything particularly important to do in the next few hours. The service would have to be really awful for me not to tip at all.

The most generous tips I leave are usually when I go to a coffee shop, since I usally tip at least 25-50 cents on a coffee that will cost a dollar to 1.50, and usally at least 50 cents on a 2 dollar coffee.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-3

Canada. A server's entitled to minimum wage here, even if tips would put them far above it (which they generally do), and this doesn't result in someone having to drop $30 to go out for a burger.

Well, I don't know about all the provinces (I know for sure it's not the case in New Brunswick), but in Quebec servers are taxed on their tips and so if people don't tip they can end up making less than minimum wage. I've been in a situation once where I had miscalculated the amount of money I had, and could only give about a 10% tip. The server got pretty fucking bitchy on me.

This was in a bar, and I had been there for a while, having already payed for and tipped quite well on a few beers. It so happened my bank card had been deactivated so I could only use the cash I had on me to pay. At the end of our visit, I had ordered some food and one last beer, and when I went to pay I realised that I had just a bit less money on me than I thought and ended up only leaving about 10% tip. I even apologized to the girl for the relatively small tip, but she wouldn't hear it. She decided instead to start using profanities to tell me I could have ordered something less expensive, etc. I had been there many times before and had always left good tips and again, I had paid for a few beers beforehand and had left good tips on those. And she couldn't have forgotten about it since this was during the daytime and the place was pretty much empty.

No need to say I never set foot in that place again.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I believe that in this case I was saying that Quebec was the shittier of the two, by making servers pay out taxes on their tips.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That is what came to mind once I got over the shock of what had just happened.

Unfortunately, by then I was out of there and well on my way home.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?