After reading this Forbes article I have no doubt Trump would have won the popular vote if he had to . <| sep |> Did they go way above and beyond the level of expected service ? We ' re they not great that night ? Maybe they were way over seated that evening . Maybe they ' re having something going on outside of work and are having a terrible day and are otherwise good at what they do . Maybe they ' re just assholes that shouldn ' t be serving . Maybe they ' re fine and just didn ' t give me what I wanted exactly the way I wanted because I didn ' t communicate what I wanted properly . There ' s a lot to think about and obviously just carpet bombing them with a standardized tip across the board is one solution but it goes against the intention of tipping in the first place . All I ' m saying is I ' d rather just pay whatever the cost of food is and not have to worry about it in the first place .