Nancy Young wrote:

>>IMHO 18% is rather high anyway.
>>I thought the average was 15% for good service,
>
>
> That's a little low, anymore, but whatever is okay by you. Well,
> lower than 15 is not okay for normal service, but you get what I
> mean.

Yes, a bit low to me also.
I want to extend this ranting a bit to include the
tips paid to delivery people also. Where I work
we all order food from a limited selection of
places nightly. They're hardly haute cuisine
joints admittedly, but I can't believe how some
folks abuse this service. They order, and when the
delivery person comes (and always with separate
checks prepared) wayyyy too many of these people
keep them waiting ("I'll be right there, I have to
go get my money from my locker") and worse yet,
then barely tip anything for their efforts. They
knew the food was ordered, so they had time to get
their money. I'm embarrassed when the delivery
person is held up almost 10 minutes or so after
everyone else has paid for their order and then
these folks don't compensate in any fashion or
even apologize! And some are just plain cheap
tippers even if they're ready with their money.
Goomba