all your tipping questions laid to rest

[ToxicAdam]

I usually tip 25 percent at cheap diners and 15 percent at restaurants.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I tip 30 to 50 percent.

Really the only time I go out to a restaurant these days is while working.  So my employer pays for my meals.  So if I order $20 worth of shit, I'll usually throw in a $10 tip.  My employer covers the $20 so technically I paid $10 for the meal.  It's a win-win for the waiter and myself.

It's never really improved my service by doing that.  I think expecting a 20% tip is fucking ridiculous unless they provide excellent service to something that is complicated.  If you're one of those assholes who has a laundry list of demands and they do it with a smile, then yeah, 20% is a pretty good idea.  But if I'm ordering some simple meal, then fuck that.  I guess that's why I usually just cook at home more often than not.  Even if I cook using foods from Whole Paycheck, it's usually cheaper and tastes better than going out to eat anyway.

[Shadow Mod]

Even if I cook using foods from Whole Paycheck, it's usually cheaper and tastes better than going out to eat anyway.

Bro where are you eating? 

[CatsCatsCats]

Check your PDX privilege Devo, not everyone can be surrounded by awesome food like us.

[tiesto]

I usually just double the tax, which adds up to about 17.5%. This only works in NY of course.

Also I don't tip those guys who work at the bathrooms at clubs and give you paper towels and shit. Fuck that, I can turn on a sink myself. I will only tip if I take some of the breath mints or gum they have.

[nudemacusers]

Other great things about living wherever you live:

• no minorities

[recursivelyenumerable]

The reason I tip 20% is TOTALLY because society tells me to. I already bear the cognitive burden of contrarianism in many other things and conserving my energy for those is well worth the monetary expense.

[chronovore]

Good ol Japan.  No tipping required, they just calculate the cost of paying their staff better than a slave into your meal's price.

Can't find how to add borders to BBCode tables:

Tipping Situation	% People Who Tip	Low Tip	Average Tip	High Tip	If you Don't Tip	% Salary	% Salary	Notes
Japan	0	0	0	0	NORMAL	0	0	Don't. Stop asking. There's no tipping.

[Mupepe]

15% standard, usually rounded up to the nearest dollar...  More if something exceptionally good.

Nothing wrong with leaving nothing if, for example, they just bring you food and proceed to ignore you - at that point it's no different than drive-thru.  Service that bad is rare.

not in Hispanic neighborhoods. OTB Hispanics dont tip so at most authentic restaurants here the service is crap. Its gotten better since I'm a regular at a lot and they realize I do tip. Plus Cholas I'll tip them just so that they can continue to afford getting those nails done mami

[recursivelyenumerable]

My problem is I kind of have no idea what "good service" is, and I'm not sure I'd want it anyway.

[Joe Molotov]

My problem is I kind of have no idea what "good service" is, and I'm not sure I'd want it anyway.

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/restaurants-google-arrive/story?id=23291307

[Madrun Badrun]

My problem is I kind of have no idea what "good service" is, and I'm not sure I'd want it anyway.

There is a very simple solution to this. 

1)  First we determine a list of potentially positive or negative actions a server might do, such as smiling or being too assertive about water refills, lets say we determine a list of 50 such actions.  For simplification these will be boolean variables, making up our feature vector. 
2)  Go to five thousand or so restaurants and observe the service for these actions
3) Crowdsource the data so that we show someone a feature vector and ask how much of a tip someone ought to get based on the given actions
4)  Build a regression model, maybe use a deep belief net because those are the shit

Then all you need to do is observe the given actions of a server at a new restaurants and ask the regression model how much you should tip.

[Madrun Badrun]

How much do you tip if your server does this to you?

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[recursivelyenumerable]

My problem is I kind of have no idea what "good service" is, and I'm not sure I'd want it anyway.

There is a very simple solution to this. 

1)  First we determine a list of potentially positive or negative actions a server might do, such as smiling or being too assertive about water refills, lets say we determine a list of 50 such actions.  For simplification these will be boolean variables, making up our feature vector. 
2)  Go to five thousand or so restaurants and observe the service for these actions
3) Crowdsource the data so that we show someone a feature vector and ask how much of a tip someone ought to get based on the given actions
4)  Build a regression model, maybe use a deep belief net because those are the shit

Then all you need to do is observe the given actions of a server at a new restaurants and ask the regression model how much you should tip.

[Madrun Badrun]

Also, you wouldn't actually need to go to any restaurants, you can just randomly permute the feature vectors and crowdsource those;  you'd need a lot more but mechanical turk is pretty cheap. I didn't mention this because it ruins the joke of being simple.

Pretty sure this could be made into an app in like a month too.  The model would need to be more complicated because you wouldn't want to fill out a 50 question questionnaire at the end of each meal, so you'd need to treat most of the data as unspecified and just work off the two or three actions people would spot or fill out.