In another thread I came accross something interesting it involved tipping. Recently I have stopped tipping in about 90% of circumstances I only tip when the waitress goes way above and beyond the call of duty. So why don't I tip much?

Everytime I went out to eat with friends we always tipped 10% regardless of service, if I chose to with hold because the service sucked my friends would throw me on a guilt trip. Then my friend started tipping 15% which he said was the norm and pressured me to do so as well. Then late 2010 my friend started tipping 20% and my other friends began to too.

Finally I said no, I will tip only when the service is exseptionally good. And no I won't tip 20% I can't afford to do that I'm low income (For Canada). Now a few friends don't go out to eat with me anymore but honestly screw them, I can't afford to pay 20% more for every meal I eat.

Also I realized something. Why do waitresses deserve a tip to begin with? They get paid 8.95-10$ an hour to do their job just like everyone else sometimes more then everyone else. A female friend of mine said she was making 200$ a night in tips. Why does she deserve 200$ a night when the construction workers don't or the fast food joint employees don't or the janitors or any other job.

Why do we tip waitresses? Is their job really that hard? Is it really worth 15%-20% I have never been tipped for any of the jobs I have had (Security, Janitor, retail) why does a waitress deserve a tip?

Do you tip every time you go out to eat? How much do you tip?

In the US we tip because Waiters and Waitresses are exempt from minimium wage laws.

For example in some places where minium wage is like 8 bucks... a waitress makes like 2.50 tips.

So if you don't tip... they likely aren't making enough money to pay their bills.

Tipping really isn't so big in Europe or so i hear.  Canadians probably tip because people in the USA tip.  Assuming they don't have the same minium wage loopholes.

Well, they pick up our dirty plates and have to listen to everything we tell them to do. I would hate doing that job, so i tip. Its not that much anyways.

My family encourages tipping 15%, and I feel bad when I don't tip ;__;

No tipping at all where I'm from. For anything.

I feel like a prat if I don't tip, and there are paid releatively low wages here in UK, a friend of mine works as as a waiter, he makes about £25 for an 8 hour shift, and gets about 20 in tips. So it's the tips that push his pay to the minimum wage othrwise he'd get nearly a half of the minimum wage per hour, I am not sure if that's the case in Canada, but I thought it was like that worldwide. But I agree 20% i overkill, I'd settle for around 10, 15 at most if the waiteress has awesome boobs

My first job was as a waiter. I worked for 2 days and the tips were phenomenal. Without them I made $3/hour

In Canada the minimum wage sticks at least in my province. I know some waitresses and a cook (Who also gets a share of the tip) they all make 8.95$ or higher. I know a waitress who makes about 200$ a day in tips (She works at a bar and grill) really high end place. But honestly I can't see how she deserves it or any other waiter or waitress in my province. Why do they deserve to get tipped when no one else does.

Its unfair to pay a waitress or waiter below minimum wage, thats BS. I guess tipping would be justified in those cases. But definatly not in BC.

I don't tip, because in Japan nobody tips. :) Nice, eh?

And if so-called "friends" of yours won't go to eat with you any more, because of that, I wouldn't even call them friends any more. If the service is good, you can/should tip, if the service was bad, why the hell should you reward that? Makes no sense.

In America, waitresses. waiters, and bartenders make $4.25 an hour. They live on tips to make a living.