Mine and my fiancee's dinner tonight was $20.22. We left a $5.00 tip.
This was for 3 reasons:
1: to have given other amounts we would have needed change (not a good reason)
2: we have both worked in the service industry before, so we know that some wait-staff depend many times on their tips (being paid less than minimum wage in addition to tips)
3: we were pleased with our service, and we figure some of the customers probably gave a tip that either was low or none at all (about half of the customers there tend to be day-labors, low income families, or people that may not appreciate others)
If I receive bad service, I leave a tip of 3 pennies, and let me tell you why "3 pennies". Once when we had bad service, my fiancee said not to leave a tip, but I told her that they may have thought we simply forgot, rather than we intentionall gave a bad tip for bad service.
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