Interesting thread, and I too would be quite interested in someone (else!) finding out whether men or women tip better. The lore says that men tip better than women, and my experience waiting tables is generally consistent with this. However, I've always wondered if there is a gender interaction here: maybe women tip men better and men tip women better. Like Allen, I tip well unless the server gives me a really good reason not to - this is the result of waiting tables myself through much of my early academic career. But in late years I have gone as high as 25% tips for a really good server. Why? I generally dine out with three spirited children, the youngest of whom is now two. They certainly try to behave, but their motor skills are just not fully developed (sigh!). I clean up after them at home in the interests of hygiene and because I love them, but I am fully aware that a twenty percent tip is not a sufficient token of appreciation for the person who cleans up after three adorable, yet rotten kids just so that I don't have to. Do most parents feel as I do, or are they relatively poor tippers? Cindy M.
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