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Where are you getting this information? By the way, your “waitress gripes” page is no longer active, and most of the links to/from your website have problems as well. I’d like to gripe to you on quite a few counts, but I’ll keep it quick. One is, it completely depends on the location of a valet attendant for what you should tip them. If you are at a restaurant where you just paid over $100/person, the valet should get $3 or $5. Giving a measley dollar to someone who usually has no hourly income is insulting, especially if they have carefully watched your Bugati or Jag for 3 or 4 hours.
Many people I know only manage to scrape by in life waiting tables because of people who tip 15% or less. Face it, times have changed, inflation HAS affected servers as well as everyone else. 20% for a job well done. If it’s not as good as you expected, 15% is reasonable. It is NEVER okay to leave no tip. If your meal was that horrible, you should talk to the manager, so that the server in question knows that they did something wrong. Servers pay taxes on what they earn, as well as a typical 3-4% tipout to foodrunners/busboys, and usually a tipout to the bar. This eats into earned tips extremely quickly.
Your site reads like you’re trying to soothe people who don’t like to tip. In case you’ve ever wondered what the servers think: people who don’t tip well are regarded as too poor to go out to dinner.