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I just leave a lower tip. Unless I saw someone spit in my food or something.

I didn't leave a tip once when I had really bad service. That was only 1 or 2 times. Sometimes I will just give a crappy tip, like $1 if they did a horrible job, instead of not tipping them at all. DH's Saturday job is at a restaurant and he gets tips and he really counts on them, but he is really nice to everyone which makes a huge difference. We are also really generous tippers when someone does a good job, we also write out a note on the receipt so they can get praise from their manager.

Basically: If you deserve it, you will get a good tip. If you attitude is horrible you will get tipped based on how you acted. Even if someone is really happy, and genuinely trying, but my be new...they still get a great tip for effort.

Not for bad service. A mistake doesn't phase me. But if someone is flat out RUDE to me? Oh hell no. I've never experienced that, but I would not tip for that and I would complain to a manager.

I always tip no matter what. Obviously if it's really bad service their tip will represent that! But if they go above and beyond, I tend to tip quite well.

I will leave a very low tip for bad service. I feel bad if I don't tip because then they're essentially not getting paid for my table.

I despise poor service, though so I would probably talk to her/his manager if I had bad service.

I do if I'm in the US, where without their tips service staff would make a depressingly small amount. Even if they did a bad job it could've just been a rough day and they don't deserve to not make a living because of it.

But, I just learned from someone that here in Canada servers don't have an adjusted minimum wage for tips--it's the same as everyone else. So somewhere like Canada or Europe--no excuses!

If the service is poor, we usually will give a low tip. If the server is rude like yours, hells no...that's no tip. I think no tip makes a bigger statement than a lower tip, which she could just attribute to cheapness than anything she did.

If service is extremely slow (we once had to wait an hour for our food!), i will usually ask to talk to the manager and give them a chance to rectify the situation.

I would've talked to her manager if it were me. Grrr, bad service makes me mad!

Definitely not. In the UK waitresses are paid at least minimum wage so I don't feel bad.

I used to be a server and a lot of my family works or has worked in the restaurant business...

I always tip, no matter how terrible the service is. I actually always tip at least 15% and if it's really good I'll go up to 25%.

I would round to the next dollar (so it would be less than a $1 tip) for outright bad service.

In California waitresses get at least minimum wage, tips are extra money. I used to never NOT tip, but then I considered that tips here are EXTRA money so they should do extra to earn it. If we lived in a state where tips meant less hourly wages for the server than I might consider tipping even a dollar. I have had some very rude servers and trust that I don't tip, I consider their tip the fact that I didn't complain to the manager (: but, I'm also not afraid to over tip if our server was amazing, helpful and all around awesome (:

I would leave a lower tip, like maybe 10%. Both DH and I are usually very generous tippers.

I was a waitress/bartender for years so I feel a tip should be earned and is not guaranteed. That said, for average service they will get 15%, anything below average I would adjust accordingly. If they go above and beyond I'd give 20-25%. If someone is not only not good at their job but rude on top of it I leave an intentionally insulting amount like a quarter or nickel (so as someone else says they cant think I forgot)...

@Mrs D: Me too. I worked as a waitress/bartender for years and I am the same way.