Same here. Even worse are the "18% gratuity is included for parties of 6 or more." If you're so hard up that you can't pay your wait staff properly, just raise the prices, already. Meh. I've only ever once not left a tip in a restaurant, and the servers were so rude that I wouldn't let anyone else (in a party of nearly two dozen) leave a tip, either. We'd been prepared to tip generously, too -- the place was slammed, and were short-staffed.


I've never tipped one, but when we had our FiOS installed, it was a bitterly cold and rainy winter day, so I did give our installer some mulled apple cider.