Do you always tip?

Good service, good tip....bad service, not a chance....although I have been known to leave the “tip” written on a napkin or piece of paper suggesting the server get a personality or a better attitude.

In some countries it's not customary to tip. Like in Japan, no, you don't tip. Australia is the same.

Okay, in the U.S., I can be persuaded to tip servers just because I know that their base earnings from their employer can be appallingly low. I tend to be generous with tipping servers. At hotels I tip the usual people like housekeeping.

Sometimes I've skipped out on customary tips when I forget to bring cash, or I'm just suddenly stingy, or feel like the tip is exploitation when I already paid well enough for something.

20% regardless and believe me as an Aussie thats good. Why? Cause I've been a waitress.

If they are a cunt, I will give them a "tip", but they still get 20%.

I never expect a dime though.

One time when we were in college my, we didn't have anything for a tip so we left a free condom, because broke college kids sometimes do weird stuff.

i tip 10 percent if food and service are to my liking , and thats most of the time because one fuck up and i never go back. A tip is a gift. If i have the extra dough to eat out i can share the wealth. i won't tip you if i find out you serve leftovers. (thats factory prepared food you zap in a microwave in the back) those places get one visit. And they are everywhere one right after another lined up to take your money. i can get a steak in my town that only the owner is allowed to cook and he brings it out to you.

Of course always. Someone giving me bad service doesn't mean they don't deserve payment. They depend on tips to survive. If they were paid decently I wouldn't tip.

I've lived in the States, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

I think tipping used to be a peculiarly American preoccupation, but it's spread to the UK in recent decades.

In Italy, tips don't seem to really be expected, although in places like bars (cafes) you'll see a little saucer next to the till where customers often put a few small coins (nothing like 10%). Generally, the attitude seems to be that if there's a price on a menu for a meal in a restaurant, then that's what it costs, end of story. Waiters won't throw a tip back in your face, of course, but it does tend to mark you out as being a tourist as much as asking for an "expresso" does.

In recent months, there have been stories in the UK media about restaurants - including high-end, Michelin-starred restaurants - charging for service, but the staff never seeing either this money, nor the additional voluntary tips some people add to their card payments. I don't eat out a lot (and when I do it's not in places with stars), but my impression is that service charges are still relatively uncommon in Britain. I don't expect a lot of service staff in restaurants (I know it's a pretty shitty job), but if they're courteous and do their best to make the meal a pleasant experience, I will normally tip at least 10%. If I do, though, I always do it in cash, in the hope that the workers, not the owners of the place, will actually get the money.

Yes. At a restaurant, I always leave a 20% tip if I'm served by waitstaff. But if I have to walk up to the counter to get food, and clean off my own table, I'm not putting anything in that tip jar.

I'm American and almost always leave 20% +$1. Sometimes more if the service was particularly good. They have to be rude or seriously suck for no obvious justifyable reason for me to leave less than 20%, which has almost never happened and I eat out a lot. If i eat somewhere and the bill is super cheap like less than $20 like say a waffle house or denny's I'll leave atleast $5, hell the server did the same work or more than places that just charge more and have alcohol.

Now if its a very expensive meal and i buy a bottle of wine, i dont tip the full price of the wine and i tip on the pre-tax bill, but still atleast 20%. In the states servers make far less than minmum wage and rely on tips unlike most everywhere else in the world so it is the social norm to tip at the very least 15%, assuming service was decent. Some of you are some cheap fucks if you're living in the states.

I leave 15% of the food as the tip.

When you dont get a tip, it makes you appreciate the ones when you actually do get a tip.

When you always get a tip, it makes you being spoiled to the point where you feel entitled and expect a tip everytime.

And if you dont get one then you act like a big baby.

10% if the service was poor (or I leave before ordering and leave nothing). Sliding scale up to 25% if the service was excellent. On a few occasions I have left tips that exceeded the bill for exceptional service.
For a coffee, I dump whatever coins I get back into the tip jar.

I tip for a good service. If everything was top notch and done from the heart, I can even leave 10 bucks for something as silly as a coffee and some water. This trend goes on, as I get drunker. Remember leaving a 50 Euro tip on a 150 Euro bill. The whole place was practically working for us. My friends and I, made them a profit of over 1200 Euros. I'm a generous tipper when drunk, again only if the service was good. If it was shitty, forget about it. I am going to wait for my change, even if it is 1 cent!

Yes, I can't remember the last time my service was bad and I didn't tip. I tip my stylist too, she always does a great job with the two hairs on my head :)