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i think salon is a best idea 
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Desi salons, if I have a great service, usually $2 or 3. Iām not sure what percentage that is, since Iāve never paid more than $12. For gora salons and most restaurants, just round it to the nearest 0 or 5.
Two incidents I remember clearly, both at Indian salons. Both times, I got really crappy service (long wait, sloppy/fast, didnāt bother to clean up the face from all the little hairs that fell). They both knew I was Pakistani and both had the nerve to ask for tips. I gave them 50 cents
Once hubby and I ate at this restaurant. the food was okay but service was so incredibly slow. They kept serving us little plastic cups of warm water and would refuse to leave the ice water jug with us. WHen it came time for tip, I left them a 25 cent tip and wrote āworst service everā
Strange, salons in Pakistan donāt accept tips..
My Indian salon lady here used to refuse the tip when I first started to give it to her. Now sheās used to it - I canāt not tip because of how much I paid at the gora salon.
I used to pay $25 (incl. taxes) plus a $5 tip for my eyebrows and upper lip at the gora salon.
Now that I go to the desi salon, I pay $5 for the same service and I tip $2 (which if you actually calcuate it is a 40% tip)
LOL, go figure.
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15-20%
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I always tip no matter what. Even if I get a bad service, I still give them something. Usually depends on my bill not always on the service.
I make sure I tip more to desis than goray. The way I see it, poor old desi men/women trying to support huge families probably deserve more.
I find it rude when people donāt tip. My husband sometimes doesnāt and it pisses me off.
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WHY SHOULD ANYONE TIPā¦its become a cultureā¦but whyā¦we pay for the damn haircut, so what else do they want, an OBE from the queen..get over itā¦we dont get these services for free, we pay them for it, usually at an extortionate price anywayā¦i dnt care if its rudeā¦its rude when customer service is not really for customers, its actually jsut na waste of time, no one listens and most often the customer is paying twice the rate anywayā¦plus u get value added tax which we have to pay for here in the ukā¦so expecting more than that, they can just ***** offā¦
i rem-in pakistan we went to pizza hut, and the meal was on me and my huby, we took our families out,after we paid the bill, he had 20ruppees leftm, so he thought he might as well tip them with that, his mother, glared at him and told him to leave more than that as its not normal to leave no tip or even worse than no tip is crap tipā¦it has to be A DECENT amount..so we too out 100 or so more i thinkā¦
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why is it rudeā¦are u eating the food for free, are u scavenging off them? noā¦SO whats not to be rude about..i go to a restuarant, i pay for food, most bills come with VAT, and are extortionatly priced, so why is it rudeā¦ur husband has good senseā¦:]
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^^ Because most of the people who provide us service.. waiters.. junior hairdressers etc donāt get much money.. I know some of the well known rest. give their waiters 3 or 4 dollars an hr but what helps them is the tip. Cooks/managers might get good money but not the waiters. A lot of people donāt know that.
I worked with some Brits who were over on a work abroad program and Iāve a friend who came from London - they all say itās a North American thing to tip to the degree that we do.
Not to say they donāt tip in Europe or elsewhere - but theyāre not as obsessive about it as us. Here we tip the coat check girl, the bartender for the diet coke, the delivery guy for the matress, the pizza guy for the pizza, the doorman who held the door open, the lady in the ladies room who handed us the towel 
Here, if someone lifts a finger for us, weāre āexpected to tipā.