Just to point out, in the UK, you'll probably find that your servers are earning less than that - cause not many 22+ y/o's want to waiter! At pizza hut, i was earning £4.28 per hour, as i was under 18. (that was last year). At 18, it goes up to £5.01 per hour. Not as bad as half minimum wage, but i thought i'd point that out. Being under 18 was shite. :-P Anyway, as a waitress, i never expect a tip if i know i haven't given good service. when the restaurant's busy - as in, i'll be serving 6 or so tables at a time (harder than it looks, as i discovered lol) AND doing all the little tasks which come with the job - cleaning and setting tables, greeting customers, filling up salad bars, making desserts, drinks, blended drinks, realising the right food isn't to hand for the dessert, running around the entire restaurant trying to find it, polishing cultery, sorting out bar areas etc etc (all simple tasks but when you have to do all of them at the same time, gets a bit annoying, bit manic and that). As i was saying, when the restaurants that busy, serving 6 or so tables at a time, massive queues at the door, customers CANNOT expect my 100% undivided attention. i give as much attention as i possibly can, and i do try to look out incase they look like they need something, but it can get a bit hectic and that. If you want waiters complete attention - DON'T COME AT PEAK TIMES. Quite logical really. Customers come expecting one-on-one service and all this, as though they're the most important person in the restaurant. Unfortuanately, in the real world, all the other customers around him are JUST as important. Waiters are trying their hardest to cater to your every need, they more or less have to suck your dick if you want them to. If you can see they're working hard, really you SHOULD leave a tip. It's become common courtesy across the world (some countries excepted.) Of course, if they're ignoring every other customer and just lingering by the bar doing nothing, being rude to customers, then yeah, they're not even trying to do their job, so don't worry. It does depend on where you go aswell - like if I was a customer at somewhere like pizza hut, i'd only leave a tip if the service was good. However if i was a customer at a top hotel, 5* or something, I would leave a tip regardless...you couldn't really go somewhere that posh and not tip.

I don't know how this ended up here. It was intended for #34 (and got posted as a reply to that too, in the right place...)

The only person to have used £ was me and that was because I was specifically saying about the minimum wage in the UK. Hardly 'everyone' and no need for you to have a panic attack.

And no this is not America, it's not even the USA, it's the internet where you find people from the whole world. And you should know that FML started as VDM, a french site, so € should be the currency used. Maybe £ since it's closer... so STFU