All the people who think it's cool to not tip if you're "too poor," I hope you at least have the balls to tell your server from the start that you don't plan on tipping them, otherwise you're a colossal hypocrite. You're all too happy to pay less for your meal and accept good service from your server knowing they're doing it because they expect you'll tip them in return, but you don't want to pay for that good service.

Boo hoo. Tips arn't mandatory...you should be happy you got anything

You got a compliment AND a tip. Get over it..

Don't complain I did a $345 dollar delivery order and got a $0 tip. It's just people don't tip anymore

Serving shifts are usually short unless you're a closer since the rush only lasts a few hours. Therefore, we absolutely depend upon tips to make our living. I'm a full time student and work six days a week at my restaurant and if I was only being paid minimum wage I wouldn't be able to survive. I don't have time to have a job with hours to be able to pay bills while also completing school. Yes, it's absolutely my job to make my tables happy and I give everybody the same service whether I'm expecting a tip or not, but serving is a lot more than just bringing food to the table. If you think otherwise I suggest trying it for a few months. I don't get to keep all of my tips I tip out my bar, bussers, and food runners which means if I get stiffed on a table I'm paying for their tip myself since I tip out based on my sales. Many times I knew I couldn't afford a tip so my friends and I have decided to go to a place that doesn't call for them. I've enjoyed my time at in n out just as much as I have in a sit down restaurant. In other countries it may not be the norm to tip but here in the US it is. Fine dining is a service and tipping is part of it. If you can't afford the tip but want to go out there are ways to keep your bill down. No alcohol. No appetizers. Just because you may not agree with how the tipping systems works doesn't make it not work that way.

You realize that a lot of restaurants actually can't afford to pay all their serving staff minimum wage. Laws have been passed in some Canadian cities recently and due to them many restaurants have shut down.

Sigh...another example of why this whole tipping system is shit, but you guys dont even care to boycott it and get servers a normal minimum wage. Stop blaming the customers for not tipping you and blame your employer for shifting the responsibility from themselves. Tipping SHOULD be just a bonus, no one should have to rely on tips to make decent wages. FIGHT YOUR SYSTEM YOU DUMMIES. Get them to change the laws regarding tips or serving jobs or whatever. Its your country. Do something about it instead of complaining.

So....about that OP: Anyone consider that the customers were being two-faced/passive aggressive (to avoid confrontation or to be snarky to someone who was clueless) and the service really WASN'T great?

I'm just going to leave this here. A tipped employee engages in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives more than $30 per month in tips. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 per hour in direct wages if that amount combined with the tips received at least equals the federal minimum wage. If the employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Many states, however, require higher direct wage amounts for tipped employees. www (dot) dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips

Maybe that was all they could afford after a $50 meal.