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Originally Posted by Airmark1
As long as you never go back. If you do, you might end up with a sneeze sandwich or even better...spit soup.
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In a former life, I was a health inspector, so trust me when I say that a little saliva or mucous in your meal is the least of your worries. There's some active "food sabotage" that goes on, to be sure, but most of the danger comes from what the staff
isn't doing more than what they do.
As far as tipping, if the server is polite, the food comes out reasonably fast and is at least a little warmer than room temperature, I'm putting down 20%. If the service is consistently bad (say, twice in a row), I just won't be going back there. I full well realize that the server has almost no control over what comes out of the kitchen, so I judge them on what they
can do to make my visit a pleasant one.
My favorite math trick for figuring the tip (because I'm a math moron) is to move the decimal one place to the left and then double the result. 15.00 is 1.50 x2 = $3.00. Voila: 20%.