I was at a bar one night on a company gig, so the boss asked me to put a tab on my company card.
It wasn't alot, maybe $600 all told but I was in no condition to do math so when the time came to close out the tab, I gave the waitress a $50 tip which in my state I thought was pretty decent. Easy math.
On the way out the door the manager tracked me down and asked if there was a problem with the service because I gave such a crappy tip. I told her to tell me what a fair tip was. I was embarrassed that I did it, but in my head, I thought $50 was pretty good for slinging drinks for a couple of hours.I don't remember what I ended up giving her. I'm sure it was probably 20%.- whatever number the manager came up with that I thought was reasonable.
That was the first and only time anyone tracked me down for being a schitty tiipper.
I will never understand the reason for a tip being a percentage of the bill.
Then just go to McDonalds. Fine restaurants are off limits for you.
While I readily admit to being of lesser social status than my betters, I did not call for the abolishment of tipping, I merely am puzzled as to why it should be related to the bill.
What's so hard to understand about the fact that if you order 10 beers instead of 2 the waitress had to make 8 more trips to your table?
If I ordered a $100 steak or a $10 dollar burger same amount of trips back and forth no? Why does burger waitress get $2 but steak gets $20?
I will tell you this, if you were a young man in your twenties, or thirties, and you were on a first date with a "hot chick."
Of course your goal is to "get nekkid" with the girl. So, you don't take her to McDonalds, you take her to a really nice restaurant. If she catches you leaving a cheapo tip, your chance of banging her just went to zero. All young gals have either worked as waitresses, or their mother or sister did, they don't like cheap tippers.
