re: Cnn report on tipping

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I tip 10%

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The math is too easy to pass up

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Young people tip more than older ones.

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This isn't news. Whenever we go out to eat with my parents my dad always makes a big deal out of asking my mom to figure out the tip and then they sit and analyze the service and sh!t and then pats himself on the back of he tips 18% and let's everyone know they think the server did a good job and so got a "big" tip. And that's after having their son wait tables for years too. Old people are just weird

20% sit down
10% bar drinks
Order at the counter …

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I tip bartenders at 30-50% at places I frequently go to, which inevitably reaches an equilibrium where I don't get charged for several drinks and they still get a fat tip (and I'm given immediate priority regardless of how busy it is).

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There is occasionally wisdom on the OT.

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Depending on they are defining as young and old I call bullshite. I guarantee you me at 50 is tipping way more than any 25 year Olds

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I found, as a rule, younger people tipped better than older people.

But if I was going to get a ridiculously large tip, it'd generally be some white guy over 45 paying.

I'm old and tip the customary 20-25%. My 26 yo son doesn't like the whole idea of tipping and is particularly offended by this new movement to handing the customer an ipad with pre-set tips starting at 15%.
He might tip 20% under the right circumstances but refuses to tip for the little bullshite things that so many of us have slid into now. Handing him a beer over the bar, a cup of coffee or a donut? He's offended at the whole concept of the customer paying the owner's overhead. And making you fiddle with an ipad and tip to close your check? He won't do it.
And he's right.

15% if the service was avoidably terrible.
20% is standard.
Usually I tip 25% or greater.

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So doing a good job is only worth 5%.

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You're not reading what I posted.

20% is standard. Which means that's the baseline I'll tip. But then I said I usually give 25% or more.

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It’s also expected before service more which makes no sense. You get tipped for work performed. If you don’t perform you don’t get tipped.

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Did you know that originally, tipping was done in advance? It morphed over time.

Tip - to insure promptness.

I tip based on quality of service. I never tip a certain % just because society says to.