How much do you tip your waiter?

How much do you tip your waiter?

  • 5%

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • 10%

    Votes: 92 46.0%

  • 15%

    Votes: 21 10.5%

  • 20%

    Votes: 5 2.5%

  • Over 20%

    Votes: 3 1.5%

  • I don't tip

    Votes: 6 3.0%

  • It varies depending on the service level

    Votes: 70 35.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 1.0%
  • Total voters
    200
Bradley Prior

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How much do you tip your waiter?
 
Varies largely based on service and bill amount. i.e. If I go have a coffee for R30 at a restaurant - I'm not going to leave a R3 tip.

Other than that, usually between 10-20%.
 
Roughly 10% / something decent for small sessions.

If service is too poor then nothing.
 
Normally 10% or rounded up to the closest 10. I.E. If bill with tip for example would be R637 I make it R640
But it also depends on the service level if it was good you get the tip if I have to go looking for you to get a dop refill or they messed up the order not so much.
 
Generally frequent the type of places that have the tip baked in so it's not something I really have to worry about, but even then I'll usually just round up a bit.

Otherwise it will usually be 10% rounded up a bit. On the occasion where someone has really been spectacular I'll round it up even more on top of the 10% but it really is an in the moment consideration.

Oddly I tend to tip more on bigger bills than smaller ones. I guess because on average those would have been much more time spent with said person.

Don't think I've ever gone to 20%, but it might very well be possible in the cases where the normal tip was baked in and I paid more on top.

The exception to this is of course the likes of Uber Eats where I consider what it would have cost me to drive/ride there myself and pay differently depending on distance.

Petrol attendants I don't pay at all because it's a non-service I didn't ask for and would happily do myself. If I have to start paying petrol attendants then I need to start tipping every till attendant to for doing their job.

A big part of the problem for me is that you don't know in any particular establishment where the money is actually going, both in what you are putting into the pot as well as what people actually get paid. It feels unfair to me to pay the waiter in tips when all they are doing is bringing you the food and the cooks slaved away to prepare it...but then from one establishment to the next the chef might be getting a proper salary and the waiting staff aren't.

Which is why I love places that openly state their tipping structure is shared between all staff on duty that evening and those will be the ones I generally pay more at.
 
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10% minimum but usually my rounding makes it closer to 15%.

You'd have to really piss me off to not get atleast 10%.
Like taking our drinks order, disappearing for ages so I have to call you over for the food order, then having some other dude bring the food when it's ready etc, still being AWOL so I have to call you over again to get the bill etc.
 
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