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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1731835" data-attributes="member: 4319">If I read the OP's wall-of-text rants, am I just going to discover him trying to rationalize being a bitter cheap-ass? Someone save me some time here.All the waitstaff I know says wealthy, white-collar people are the worst tippers as a rule. Blue collar, manual labor and service industry types usually tip well. Tipping is part of the price going out to eat; if you don't want to tip or can't afford to tip...eat at home. You don't go into a nice restaurant and order a $5.50 bottle of beer and tell them "I can get a six-pack of this at the liquor store for $9...I'm not paying for this." Eating out isn't a necessity, it's not some inherent right you have, and quit your gotdamn bitching about it costing money...or stop eating out. Any place that has good service an I would go back to, I tip well. On cheaper bills like stopping for breakfast alone during the week, I push it over 50% ($5 on a $9 bill yesterday). With a larger bill and more than one person I can't remember the last time I've tipped under 25-30%. Hell I've tipped a single-mom waitress in a diner in the middle of nowhere $20 for a $7 breakfast just because it was Christmas time, and after watching everyone else tip her loose change I figured $20 would mean more to her than it does to me. I tend to tip better in rural areas or somewhere else where the staff doesn't rake in many tips. Not uncommon for me to watch EVERYONE in a diner during hunting season tip the lone waitress loose change, or maybe a buck for a huge, messy table they sat at for an hour and a half as she tended their coffees and cleaned up after their kids. If I see that, I'll do like I typed above.</blockquote>

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