This statistic shows the standard tipping amount for a server at a full-service restaurant in 2016. During the survey, 42 percent of the respondents stated that the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant is between 10 and 14 percent.
What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant?
respondents were adults who were members of the Angus Reid Forum.
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Leaving aside instances of exceptional or terrible service, and focusing only on a typical service experience. What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full service restaurant?"
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Angus Reid Institute. (July 13, 2016). What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/610759/standard-tipping-amount-for-a-server-at-full-service-restaurants-canada/
Angus Reid Institute. "What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant?." Chart. July 13, 2016. Statista. Accessed May 31, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/610759/standard-tipping-amount-for-a-server-at-full-service-restaurants-canada/
Angus Reid Institute. (2016). What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 31, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/610759/standard-tipping-amount-for-a-server-at-full-service-restaurants-canada/
Angus Reid Institute. "What Is The Standard Amount Customers Are Expected to Tip a Server in a Full-service Restaurant?." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 Jul 2016, https://www.statista.com/statistics/610759/standard-tipping-amount-for-a-server-at-full-service-restaurants-canada/
Angus Reid Institute, What is the standard amount customers are expected to tip a server in a full-service restaurant? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/610759/standard-tipping-amount-for-a-server-at-full-service-restaurants-canada/ (last visited May 31, 2020)
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