Mother's Day Brawl Over Crying Baby
Steve Pope wrote:
> Do you think these people are going to refrain from tipping,
> if they think it buys them something?
I snipped most of your post to zero in on this last question though I
think you make an interesting point. My question is does the tip buy
them something?
I don't go to very high end restaurants with entrees in the $50 or
higher range. I do sometimes go to restaurants with entrees in the $30
range. That, for me, is a special event. We frequently go to
restaurants with entrees in the $15 range. That's frequently, a lot,
every week.
So maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but in my experience,
tipping doesn't buy better service. In my experience, the more
expensive the restaurant, the more formal the service. Less expensive
restaurants might have more informal service, but the staff is still
friendly and helpful, and the food still arrives in a timely manner. On
those rare occasions (exceedingly rare) when the service is truly bad,
as in rude, I won't tip or won't go back or will say something to
management, but that's happened such a small handful of times that I
could probably recount them. And of those times, there's been something
the matter with the food too.
I wonder, if I were exceedingly rich and if I were dining in those
places where $50 entrees are the norm with wine on top of it, would a
larger than 20% tip really get me better service? I doubt it, but I
really don't know.
--Lia
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