Even if the service was bad I'll leave a tip. I think everybody should always be tipped unless the employee was a **** asshole

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BJP wrote

No, thankfully my country has minimum wage laws which require even the "lowest of the low" type jobs to be paid a good wage in order for the employee to not need tips to survive. The National minimum wage act of 1998 means that anyone who fits the given criteria gets at least a set wage. This even fits part-time, trainee's, offshore, one-day hires, apprentices and foreign workers. The minimum wage at the moment is shown below:

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I think tipping is an extremely crude way of shorting your workers especially if a company then splits the tips at the end of the shift. I will only tip if its a pathetic amount meaning I will be left with coppers (small change) or if they have performed a miracle in front of my eyes.

BJP

Damn u lucky bro. Your countries' minimum wage gets reviewed every April. Minimum wage in the USA has been $7.25 since 2009 and $7.25 here is equivalent to the apprentice wages in the U.K. Since the cost of living is insane now. ($7 for a gallon of milk) I live in a cheap part of the country and housing is $1000 a month on average for a 1 bedroom apartment. rip.

You do no live in a "cheap part" of the country if your milk is 8$ per gallon and cost of living for 1 bedroom is 1000$.

Milk is ~$3.50 per gallon and rent for a 1500 sq ft house is ~ $950-$1100 where I am located. $7.25 is enough to live on in most parts of the US.

I always leave a tip at restaurants, I usually do $5 because why not

While home I generally tip 18-20% of the check total. In Japan, tipping is frowned upon.

if they deserve it, yeah. if i feel any type of disrespect/attitude you dont get anything

If the server went above and beyond, yes. If the server was awful, doesn't engage in small talk and the food was subpar, then I don't tip.

I definitely don't tip baristas at the local coffee joints. They are doing their job by making me coffee. Coffee experiences and food service is completely different in my opinion, which is why I brought up the baristas. You have two completely different types of customer service. One that handles your food, drinks, makes sure you're still doing alright; whereas the other is a one-and-done interaction. I'm in line for 5 minutes, why should I give you a tip for a 5 minute interaction when you did nothing more than make my coffee?

Yes but because I'm cheap, it's rare I do

Depends on quality of service and food.

When I've been in America and Canada though, I've always tipped. Here in the UK though, and anywhere else, dependant on the above.

If the bill comes to £27 or something, I'll tend to either pay by card or round up and leave £30 and leave.

of course, I always leave at least 10%

Ahh a good question. You should absolutely leave a tip everytime someone serves you. 15 percent of the total bill if everything was good and 20 percent if it was excellent. Myself serving at a steakhouse, I understand and live off this concept. The company in charge of paying your salary is taking almost all of your paycheck for taxes. So that $2.50 an hour you make is going straight to the government at the end of the day. My point is that it is our job to be salesmen and make the money off of the actual sales. But it's frustrating at times when you know you did the absolute best and still get cheated.