&gt; If I do not like the the food I still have to tip because otherwise the nice waiter gets nothing?<p>I actually don&#x27;t think your parent was asking about shitty service, I think they were asking about if the service was good but the food itself was bad, in which case yes, they should still tip, right? Which I guess could seem unfortunate but that doesn&#x27;t seem worse than no-tipping systems for that case, so.