With having worked in bars and restaurants for almost five years, I have seen that there are some misconceptions with tipping in particular. Here are the basics:
1) The lowest possible tip is 15% (exception being extremely poor service when restaurant is slow). Remember, servers have little control over the food that comes out of the kitchen and should not be punished by withholding a tip.
2) Parties of 6 or more (yes, even including kids) should tip at least 20%. If you can not afford this, try a take out option (not being mean). The more people in a party, the more demands are made: refills, condiments, kitchen errors, etc. along with the servers other tables.
3) If your party occupies more than one table make sure your tip includes gratuity on both tables. Servers have set sections and if you take two tables, that servers is losing out on another table, another tip.
4) If the restaurant is on a wait, do not "camp out". Enjoy your meal, dessert and a coffee but when everything is finish, it is time to leave. The more you sit, the less tables a server can receive and you are holding up others from being sat.
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"Remember, servers have little control over the food that comes out of the kitchen and should not be punished by withholding a tip."
100% DISAGREE that servers have little control over the food that comes out. If you know I ordered a baked potato, then why are you bringing me macaroni and cheese? That is what a waiter brought me that TOOK my order. Do you think that made sense? He wrote it down, so he COULD have REREAD the written order and compared it to the plates of food BEFORE BRINGING it out so I wouldn't have been BROUGHT the wrong side dish. I wouldn't have received the mistake if the server would have put some EFFORT into me and my husband's service. I seriously doubt he just overlooked it and actually verified what he was bringing me, because most don't. You have control over bringing out the wrong food if you took the order and brought it out to me. You have control over if you FORGET something such as a side of ranch or a side dish that is missing. You have control over certain things such as if I order bbq sauce "ON THE SIDE" instead of on ribs, but the kitchen staff forgets and puts the bbq sauce on the ribs, well you don't have to be so lazy as to not compare the written order to the plate of food if you take it to me. You should see that it is wrong and tell the kitchen staff instead of bringing it to me wrong. It's not the customer's job to tell you something that is OBVIOUS that they don't have to touch the food to know something is wrong.
They also have control over if I asked for EXTRA crispy bacon if you can SEE it is not crispy. You can look at bacon and tell just by LOOKING at it, if it's crispy or not.
They have control over fries being not overdone if they bring me my food when I have ordered them "lightly cooked", because you can SEE with your EYES that the fries look BROWN instead of yellow looking.
Servers have control over putting the order in correctly into the computer or writing the order down correctly for the kitchen staff if there is not computer.
Servers don't have control over the temperature of my food unless they or someone else forgot to go get it from the kitchen. Servers don't have control over if my steak is cooked medium well instead of well done unless the order was put in wrong. If I order a well done steak, receive it rare from my server, well, not only does the server know HOW LONG it took to get to me that they can realize there's no way it's done that fast, but also, it's probably RED, not black, so the color would be different since it's from one extreme to the other.
If the order was put in correctly, my server doesn't have control of a burrito filling being wrong(unless the burrito is leaking where you can SEE it's the wrong type of filling such as chicken instead of beans). Things that are covered up that the server would actually have to move the food to know something wasn't right if the order was put in correctly, they have no control over either. It's very rare that they have little control over most of the mistakes. MOST of the mistakes, honestly, CAN be caught by the server(if they took the order and brought out the food).
So you are VERY WRONG!! Servers have LOTS and LOTS of control of what comes out the kitchen as far as MOST things go. You obviously haven't been a customer much, have you?
What is the purpose of this posting? Why is it important?
Oh wait, it isn't.
Here's a tip; stop writing about stupid shit...
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