re: Do you tip on the entire check amount or the pre-tax check amount?

The answer is pre tax.

I'll usually figure out 20% of the pre tax bill but i'd adjust based upon how shitty they were. IF they sucked, i'm increasingly giving them more like a 10-15% tip. I'm sick and tired of some waiters/waitresses just being absolutely terrible and you get ignored for 20 minutes at a time.

Am I sober?

If so 20% of the check.
If I’m not and she’s hot who the frick knows

Tipping is, to me, simply part of the bill for eating out. I do not base the amount I pay for a steak on the quality of a steak - I pay what the price is either way. I may not be back again but I am not basing the amount I pay for the meal and the way it is prepared on the quality of either. Tipping does allow for this...it is a pretty good way to pay for service. I would bet that IF it were common practice at McDonalds to tip that at times you'd go to one and find the people working in it are actually functionally alive. Not every location and not every employee but I would bet it would make some more interested in their job. Either way the cost is what the cost is....if it weren't for tipping the owner would have to pay more per hour which they would have to recover from customers...and there would be no impetus for a server to do more than the bare minimum.

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Double the tax

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quit saying this dumb shite.

cause your answer is then you are basing it too off of pre tax bill. and you're more likely giving 18% or less in most places.

at least 15% of the total./ 20% if my tea glass never goes dry

Double the tax at sit down restaurants. I don't tip barbers anymore since they went up to $30 plus for a regular cut and definitely don't hit the random tip jars. Random things like hotel cleaning services and hand washed car washes also can still get tips from me, but it is not a percentage thing.

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Probable cause the service industry employs most of the working SJW’s.

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That's my point.

I could say to a server that I don't like her pink hair and nose ring, therefore I'm not tipping. Or bro with the man bun, zero tip for you because I hate your man bun.

Completely discriminatory based on whatever I feel like.

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Yeah, the debate over pre and post tax is silly. Sounded like you were saying you don't care about anything but tipping big cuz you ain't poor.

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I mean if I can afford to eat out, especially at a nice restaurant, then I shouldn't be worried about that kind of extra money. Why screw a server over if they are good because you are cheap then make excuses?

Also, I worked service industry in college and for those who have not never really appreciate the job. Its very easy to be a sub-par server but its hard work to be a really good one (especially in the weeds) and they should be rewarded accordingly for their extra effort.

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Do you tip on the entire check amount or the pre-tax check amount?

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Calculating is for the poors