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I'm cheap, but fair is fair.

I usually give 20%. Recently went to a restaurant that added 18% to the check. It was just my wife and I. I didn't like them adding it without notices before hand. But I figured I saved 2%.

"Irregardless", not a word.

Small tip for you.

Obliged! lol

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Dang, beat me to it.

No, but why a percentage? If they all had hamburgers instead of T-bones, why should the tip be different?

My wife, and I were at the Riverview Lodge in Dryden.

I thought some of switching tips with another table.

It's OK to not view everything through a frugality lens.

It is a recognized word in the English language.

Dad had a saying: "Ring the doorbell with your elbow because your arms should be full."

Okay a question. Say you go into a family restaurant, sit at the bar and order a to go meal. Do you tip the same as if you did the meal sit down at one of their tables?

Funny when people, in the later years of their lives, still are cheapskates and selfish and still trying trying scam freebies and freeload. Cant take money with you when you're dead. You should be charitable in the later stages of your life. And not just money.

great quote

My old man used to tell of a restaurant owner always taking his parts/oil/filter/etc to the auto dealer for service and demanding a discount on services. Subsequently, the dealer showed up for breakfast one morning packing his own eggs.

In 1978 when i was 15 i got a job as a busboy at a VERY busy pizza place,it was next to a movie theater,so it would be line out the door full, at midnight on a Saturday.Back then in N.Y. you could pay under minimum wage if you got tips.I made $1.75 an hour,but on a busy night i got $150 to $175 in tips.
Later they opened a fancy resturant next door and i became a waiter ,made even more,most people tipped and tipped well.Except old ladies at Sunday brunch.A waiter or Waitress that works hard,gets a good tip,If they are on their phone and clueless,they get nothing and i ll stop and tell the manager why.
The resturant i worked at is still in business,everyone knows it,once i tell the manager i worked there for 5 years and know the business,they know i m not talking out my ass and they need to do some motivating.Tip for good service,tip well for excellent service,don t tip at all for bad service.
One of the best things i ever did was get my daughter a job there when she was in high school,that kid learned how to MOVE ,how to HUSTLE.It served her well in life.

I once had to go out to a guy's home and appraise a bunch of rifles. He owned a township (36 sections) where this home was as well as homes in Miami, New York, and London. He had some nice but not spectacular, guns. Anyway, I showed up early in the morning and was about halfway through the list by noon. He invited me to lunch and I was anticipating a pretty good feed. I got Campbells tomato soup and some crackers. At the end of the day, he handed me a hundred dollars for the day. He was a cheapskate but, apart from that, he was a nice enough guy and the visit was a change from another day in the shop, where I would have earned about four times as much, minus the lunch.
I came out better than one of the salesmen from the store I contracted to. He went out to the home of another very wealthy industrialist and spent a full day chronographing and testing rifles in preparation for the gentleman's trip to Zimbabwe. At the end of the day, he was packing up his gear and the client reached out and tucked a bill into Buddy's pocket. He didn't even look at it; so as not to appear too crass. On the drive back to town he reached into his pocket to pull out what he was sure was going to be a hundred dollar tip. He was brought down hard when he unfolded a nice five dollar bill!
On the other side of the coin, I once guided a couple of elk hunters, just ordinary guys, hardwood loggers from back east. We had packed in to one of the spike camps and, after I got them settled, I hiked back out (about four miles) and packed in a case of beer for them. One of them had cooked up some sausage and beans while I was gone and when, after we had eaten, I unwrapped that case of beer, I thought they were going to cry. At the end of the hunt, during which they shot no elk but saw a lot of game (including a really big grizzly, close up), they tipped me way beyond what I thought they should. In truth, the hunt had been so enjoyable, I felt they should not have paid at all. GD

Too funny! I’d have loved to see it.

I'm a pretty generous tipper, often to the chagrin of my wife, even tipping the gas station attendant (no self-serve in NJ), but I noticed a tip jar on the counter at the local bait shop. Is that going a bit too far?

The cheapest............... those that take a 'buy-one-get-one' coupon to the local Olive Garden/Fridays/chain whatever and then tip 'light' on the bill, NOT what the bill would have been..........

onetime when we still had the place in Duval County, one of my cousins wanted to hunt so I invited him... he showed up with his wife and a friend with his wife... when they left he took everything from the fridge..., f-cking mescan's why I don't talk to them anymore.

I had only invited him the rest were a surprise.