Tipping taxi driver

[Ima saver]

I too worked as a waitress 20 years ago and we made $2.01 an hour plus tips. Today, they still don't make much more than that an hour and they have to work hard. (We had to clean the entire restaurant except the kitchen) If you can't afford to tip, you should really not eat out.

[cptacek]

If my colleagues were forced to serve such a client more than once, they were certainly will get their satisfaction in other ways.. And given that the kitchen prep, bartender and waiter all share the tips, they all share in the revenge as well....

Awesome. What restaurant was it where you worked? Sounds like a call to the health department might be in order.

[Ima saver]

We had a group of six that came in several times a week. They never left a dime. Of course, once I served their food, I did not return to their table.

[atomicrc11]

Tipping a cabbie for me really depends on the ride. The are situations where I have a great cab ride and tip well. Sometimes not. Generally it is about 15%.

The times I leave no tip:

1. When the driver continually talks on his cell phone after I ask him not to. Technically this is illegal and the driver must get off his cell phone upon your request. (At least where I live.)

2. When the driver goes a different way after I specifically ask them not to. This happens a lot and there are reasons I ask for specific routes.

3. When the driver gets into an accident that was their fault. I've had this happen twice. Once they rear ended someone while talking on thier cell phone (this is the reason for rule #1). The other was the driver went the wrong way down a one way and hit a car head on coming out of the one way street.

4. When the driver drives on the right side of the road.....in the Bahamas. This was a scary ride and just an fyi for those who don't know, the Bahamas are closesly tied to the UK, so you should drive on the left side of the road.


Otherwise if the trip is good and the cabbie goes for the quickest route, a tip is deserved.

[supersaversam]

I'd pay him between $55 and $60 depending on how much you liked him, and that he took the quickest route possible.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

I gave a $20 tip. I figured it was a long trip out of the city to the edge of farm country and he was unlikely to get any other fares while out there. He carried me for the distance and time that he might have missed several other shorter fares in the city, plus he had a 35 minute ride back to an area where he was likely to get any passengers.