Anyone who doesn't tip 20% has never worked service, is cheap, or thinks they are better than everyone else.
I tip 20% as a standard, even if the service isn't great. Because I know how shitty that job can be and that just because I got bad service it might not be the servers fault (could be some asshole in the place wasting their time, could be a 12 top, could be working twice as many tables because one of the other servers called in, computer system could be down, bartender might be behind, kitchen might be behind). Restaurants are literally organized chaos.
If you think you need to make a point to a server and tip them something shitty, then you need to change some things in your life. I've got more important things to worry about and I don't need to be a dick to people because they're having a bad day. And If you can't afford to tip someone something decent then you probably shouldn't be taking in the experience of eating out, you could always order -to go-.
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