tip rates, what are your standards? Options

[queen]

how good of a tipper are you? what do you consider a "good" tip? what types of services rendered affect the amount of tip you give? define "good" service.

i think i'm a fair tipper. i never tip more than 20% 'cause i don't believe any service is worth the additional 5 above that. also, there's no such thing as "excellent" service to me --essentially, nothing above "good".

my tip rating:
0% for crappy service: basically, doing everything wrong. so far, i haven't had service that would be deserving of this title.
5% for noob service: obviously a new guy. you could tell the person has putforth effort, but s/he's probably just not fit for the job. again, it's rare that i tip this low.
10% for "close-but-no-cigar" service: nothing goes particularly wrong. server is already familiar with the job but is apparently just slow and/or having a bad day.
15% for decent service how i expect to be served every night! fulfillment of all requests in a timely and orderly fashion. server is nice, but not too clingy, maybe even funny, good people skills
20% for good service speedy fulfillment of all requests. giving a little extra. excellent people skills, basically kissing the ground i walk on.

just curious because i know people who tip 5% for what i would consider "good service" and others who tip up to 30% for the same.

[queen]

I always give at least 15% since that's what my parents always do & always taught me to do. I only give 20% if it's just that darn good, but if you suck, you'd get one buck & I'm making sure I let the manager know &/or corporate know if it's that serious. I'll never forget when I went off on the asst. manager & waiter at Applebee's at my old college town & my friends & I wrote corporate but my online submission was the one that got them both fired. It was that serious or I wouldn't have bothered.

lol what did they do that was so bad.

hrm i could understand why some people would want to give more than 20%; i personally just don't believe in it. i mean unless i'm experiencing ecstasy the entire time, i think 20% is already pretty fair.

in Japan, tipping is considered an insult because they believe that good service is expected in no matter what you do.

i used to think that way when i was younger 'cause i didn't understand the concept of tipping. i mean a job's a job right and should be done well, right?

[Glamourouz]

lol what did they do that was so bad.

hrm i could understand why some people would want to give more than 20%; i personally just don't believe in it. i mean unless i'm experiencing ecstasy the entire time, i think 20% is already pretty fair.

Well for one my friends & I went to eat there on a Tuesday (not a busy day at all), we got there at 7, we didn't get our food until 9:30pm; the food was basically cold, then he got our orders wrong, everyone got served before us, when we tried to talk to the manager he claimed he was busy, our waiter was slow as hell & dumb (people claimed he was new, but eff that, he wasn't new & he sucked), I for one dont eat at applebees but ever since college I had to deal with it whenever I was at school, that was the first time we were ever treated as such & ever experienced that, if we were in Atlanta that wouldn't have ever happened, so I wrote a very great letter & stated extremely valid points on what happened, the manager called & spoke to all of us & he even agreed with me, so the matter was dealt with & we got our money & then some back, & corporate also called and expressed that they didn't want us to stop eating there. I told the assistant manager he was gonna be jobless effin with me, so as far as I'm concerned, he deserved to have his job taken because he wasn't fulfilling his duties anyway.