A Question for Food Servers...?!

A Question for Food Servers...?

What is your opinion regarding low maintenance customers who don't tip?

I'm not talking about high priced restaurants, but quick and cheap lunch joints. I don't make any special requests, I clean up any mess I've made, and usually I only require three visits: to take the order, to bring me the food, and to refill my water.

Obviously if a server is great, or I'm eating at a nicer restaurant, I'll usually tip. But for quick lunches...how do you view people like me?

Also, restaurants that have the tip section on the reciept for take-out foods: Are you expecting a tip, and how do you feel when you don't get one?

I waited in a several restaurants from diners to very nice hotel dining rooms. I would certainly be annoyed with you (unless your over the age of 65 and even they at least tip 50 cents) working a small lunch place. The waiters in these places actually rely upon tipping more for their wages than waiters in nicer places. Working for a nice place you could make an hourly wage that's a little above minimum wage in addition to tips however working in small places your much more likely to making anywhere from nothing to minimum wage ( in the 90's I made 2.30 per hour waiting tables) per hour, obviously relying sometimes entirely on your tips and your ability to turn tables over quickly. The way we dealt with customers like yourself was to hand you off to someone new everyday and not really spend much effort making your sure your service was good but rather acceptable. As far as the take out thing unless they deliver it to your door no tip and if they deliver figure in the included tip into any additional tip you choose to give if any. Never have done delivery stuff so I don't know the expectation.