Do you tip?

[Spicoli]

Try to base on service and personality.Sort of like when you look for a check out line in the store.I dont look at how many are ahead of me or their items...try to size up the cashier.Are they looking at their nails and trying to text with the left hand...having attitude.Or are they fluid,checking the rear of line and you know....actually keeping pace,working.

Cabbies with shite taxis,broken window latches and that "who really gives two shits" conversation I just round up/down to the dollar.....all Waiters and table jockys are tipped.....Pizza delivery is different.The very young people get the least....some 40ish plugger just hanging on and probally going home to entrenched grief I tip pretty well.

"others"...cough.No comment.Had a crazy clash driving home from Katrina evacuation.Hey,just realized I made it so went sort of crazy at the Holiday Inn on the city outskirts prior to driving in.

[Gandalf]

Why don't service industries just charge more for their product and give their workers better wages? I would much rather go to a restaurant like that. What you buy is what you pay for and that's that. The culture of tipping just sounds like an excuse for restaurant owners to pay awful hourly rates and make the diners cough up extra so workers can pay their bills. It just seems a bit screwed up from my perspective. Tipping is actually frowned upon out here and seen as an insult if offered. I quickly adopted that mentality which seems so natural to me now.

It's not that I'm cheap as I would happily pay more for my meal in the knowledge that those workers are getting a minimum standard of living. But the culture of tipping just seems a bit unsual to me and on going home next year I was just wondering how far it all goes.

[Spicoli]

Alot of the higher tier restaurants consider that they are selling you a fine meal as well a environment,atmosphere,presentation I suppose.Fast food has exploded in the last couple of decades,especially in horrid economy people look for cheap quick and easy.Tipping can have some to do with status?

Coffee shops and such I never tip.On a day I can pay 2,3 bucks for a coffee that I really dont need,the last thing I'm tempted to do is hand over another 2 bucks to some 'barista',who probably gets free coffee all day long....fuckers!!!