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Originally posted by Tipsy
To be honest even in the US I still see no reason why the tip should not reflect the service i.e. if the service is crap no tip. The waitress gets paid shit and needs more? Then she simply has to do her job and do her job properly so that she does get good tips. If she's so lousy that nobody tips her then she has nobody to blame but herself and needs to get her act together. Again it goes back to the fact that tipping should never expected but rather earnt - it's the whole point of it.
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You are making a couple assumptions here.
1. That her service was poor.
2. That if the service was poor it was her fault.
A few months ago I went to a party with my family to some restaurant and there were about 20 of us at the table. We got our beer quickly enough, but we waited about an hour before our food arrived, and that was only after one of my sisters went to the manager and complained.
It turned out that they had a problem in the kitchen, the problem was completely out of control of the waitress.
The manager knoocked at least $50 off the $100 bill for the inconvenience, and we in turn used that $50 to tip the waitress. She had done her best, but she can't bring us food that isn't cooked.