Do you think servers should work for free?
Servers get their money directly from customers (except the $2-3/hour wage, which isn't enough to live on). You wouldn't expect your plumber or roofer to work for free, which is essentially what you're doing to your waiter/waitress if you don't leave a tip. What makes working for you such an honor that your server should do it without pay?
The "Mr. Pink" excuse:
"I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's beep up. That ain't my fault Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball." -Mr. Pink, Reservoir Dogs
I've heard non-tippers paraphrase this speech dozens of times, and they all fail to see where the logic falls apart. "Not playing ball," would mean not going to restaurants with table service. You don't like the way servers are paid, fine. Don't give the offending establishments your patronage. It's like joining a game of basketballyou should play by the rules of the people who were already playing, or get the hell off the court.
I get passionate about this because I hate to see my friends and family (many of whom have been servers) ripped off.
BTW, I don't know how buffets pay their servers, so I never really know how much/if I should tip. I just err on the side of caution and leave 10-15%.
Be prepared for the coming Zombocalypse!
3/3/14

Yeah, tipping is optional.
And there are other jobs out there so don't act like its their only option.
I tip when I feel the server did a good job. And I NEVER tip on a buffet. Taking my plate and getting me a new pop doesn't get you 15% in my book. Money should go to the cooks.
I work at a golf course and occasionally help out in the snack bar when the hours are slim. Last night I did a ticket for 60 bucks and didn't get a dime. Do you hear me complain? No.
As someone said earlier. Don't expect a tip just because you did you showed up and did your job

This message has been deleted.

So let me get this straightI need to tip for them to do their job properly. WHAT A GREAT IDEA!

Sure we all know it never happened, dummy.

I was sitting at a barber shop here in Austin waiting for a haircut when this asian kid sitting next to me asks me if you're supposed to tip for a haircut. I told him "you don't have to, but you should - particularly if you like your haircut". He says "in my country, we don't tip". I told him "that's why you have a beep haircut"

This message has been deleted.

This message has been deleted.

Hey asswipe, someone being a waiter or a busser has nothing to do with success in school.

I know plenty of servers with college educations. It's called a bad economy, and has nothing to do with "doing better in school." I'm so glad that most people aren't complete douchebags like you when it comes to tipping.

This message has been deleted.

Look, you were the one that made the life choices that led to you having to wait tables at a restaurant that only pays minmum wage for a living. Should have done better in school.

If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat at a restaurant.

This message has been deleted.

Yeah but dude I might be poor and me living a tip is me losing money. What if I just cant afford it?

No, Skidbubble is absolutly right. You need to GTFO.

Calm down, retard. Taking the internet seriously is the sign of a deranged mind.
I don't like the way blood money spends.

You need to die, skidbubble.

"If your not going to tip, stay the hell home or go through the drive thru."
If you are going to expect a tip, bring my meal promptly and hot, refill my coffee if it is low / empty, bring me a new clean fork if I dropped mine on the floor, bring me extra napkins if I am eating like a messy pig, and if I don't have water, ask me if I would like some. If these requests are not being met, don't expect a tip.

This message has been deleted.

To the people who think tipping is optional. In the state of Pennsylvania, min. wage for a server is $2.83 an hour. It hasn't gone up with min. wage in over 10 years. So how would you feel if you were making that much money an hour and got stiffed? I wait tables for a living. If your not going to tip, stay the hell home or go through the drive thru.
Until you have all worked waiting tables and relying on tips for a living, I think you all need to shut the hell up, because you have no clue what it is like. You'll change your tune on not tipping real quick.

Food being cold is NOT the waiters fault.

wait if the food comes out cold you would stiff the server? Really because i have one question for you. Did the chef make the food or the server?? Unless the server forgot to bring your food out a good 10 minutes for the food to cool down (which given the timing, is highly unlikely for a mulititude of reasons), if the food was cold, you should seriously be mad at the restaurant and chefs, before the server!
"Servers have to realize that a tip is for doing a good job, for doing above and beyond."
This is a fallacy simply because the gov't expects most of the server's pay to come from tips. Hence why they aren't paid minimum wage like employee's from Mcdonalds. If you tipped a Subway guy more then that fit's the TIP paradigm but in a full service restaurant, the TIP paradigm is slightly different.
Another poster here said why is it that only servers are expected and have to do extremely well and in their best behavior to make such a wage? For instance, if you hire a plumber and he or she is in a sh!tty mood, and only says "Hello" and then goes on to do his work, you still pay them but when a server is in a bad mood (maybe they got in a car wreck or someone close passed away, whatever it can be the same reason as that plumber too) and says "Hello", takes said order, most people would stiff them simply because they weren't all smiles, upbeat, & pretty much above and beyond amazing??? It's really a double standard. Most people see through what it really is though. It's just all excuses to be cheap!

This message has been deleted.