not only had they better be cheap but they better be stiff as hell. There is no way anyone should be tipping a buck a drink. I'll often tip a 5 spot right off the bat if I'm in a busy bar, it makes sure the bartender notices you throughout the night. And if they are on it I'll give them a couple extra bucks at the end of the night, but a buck a drink is just insane.
i usually tip a buck a drink, at least if i'm only having 1 or 2. if i start having more and keep getting the same waitress, i wont tip every time. also depends on the price of the drink...if some place is raping me for $4.50 a bottle i'll probably just leave them a $5 (or a $10 or $20 if i'm buying a round). also, if i plan on buying multiple rounds i'll usually just start a tab and leave a tip at the end
as far as dinner i usually tip at least 20% if service is good, sometimes 25%. usually i just take the total bill and double it and then drop a zero (I.e. $65 dinner = $13 tip, but i'd probably just leave $80 if i didnt have exact change rather than wait for $2). somewhere more casual i may only leave 15%, again, depends on the service though and what money i have on me (i.e. a $22 lunch for two i may just leave $25)
Metroid wrote:A buck a drink? Are you crazy? Nobody does that.
In New York, everybody does that.
That's also been the standard everywhere I've lived. If the place I'm at is really busy, I'll generally tip more than a buck a drink for the first round or two. You're not tipping for the act of fixing your drink, your tipping for future service.
Art Vandelay wrote:That's also been the standard everywhere I've lived. If the place I'm at is really busy, I'll generally tip more than a buck a drink for the first round or two. You're not tipping for the act of fixing your drink, your tipping for future service.
Yep I always tip more in the beginning and then after a few rounds I stop. Although it's been ages since I went out drinking.
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Metroid wrote:A buck a drink? Are you crazy? Nobody does that.
In New York, everybody does that.
That's also been the standard everywhere I've lived. If the place I'm at is really busy, I'll generally tip more than a buck a drink for the first round or two. You're not tipping for the act of fixing your drink, your tipping for future service.
Exactly. I was a bartender for three years, some of which during college (college students almost never tip), but afterward, there's a general understanding that the more you give me, the faster I will get you your drinks. If somebody drops a nice tip on me early, of course I'm going to go straight to them even if I see somebody else clearly waiting for a drink. Beyond that, if your bartender is cracking the top off three bottles of beer for you and your pals, I don't typically give (nor did I expect) $3 for the trouble, but if they're mixing drinks for you, then $1 is pretty standard everywhere I've been.
Dan, generally a bottle of domestic will run you $5 where I live, unless it's Happy Hour or there's some daily special going on, and if you head to the city, you're talking more around $8, $9, even $10 I've seen for a domestic bottle depending on where you go, so be happy with your $4.50 raping
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