Reply #100: My husband and I once [View All]

[Luminous Animal]

had a restaurant owner chase us down the block to return a portion of our tip! This is in SF, also. It was the first time that we'd ever ate at this particular sushi restaurant... the food and service was soooooo good (several special off menu on-the house-dishes for us to try, the tea always full, treats for our 3 year old...), we tipped around 40% trying to compensate a bit for the free stuff. Imagine our amazement when he chased us down and returned half of our tip! We continued eating at this restaurant for 12 years (until the owner died) and continued to be treated very well but we kept our tip within the 20-25% range but I would gladly tipped 40%.