What is a person who never leaves a tip called?
Ever wonder why the waiter at the restaurant you went to last week is now giving you dirty looks. Well, perhaps you didn't leave them a tip!
Then, the question is: What is a person who never leaves a tip called?
A bit of searching come up with "penny-pincher" ("unwilling to spend money"), but I'm unsure this is the best choice in this case.
You might be looking for a term specifically used to mean a bad tipper, not just a stingy person. Food service industry jargon includes several widely used terms for a bad tipper:
Canadian, a known or obvious bad tipper, according to the Chicago Tribune article “10 things you might not know about tipping”. For example: “Jodie just sat six Canadians in your section, dude.” In some locales, racial prejudice has resulted in this term becoming code for African-Americans who look “ghetto” or for African-Americans in general, according to various web sources.
Flea, a bad tipper. According to the article “Bar and Restaurant Lingo”, the term refers sarcastically to someone whose “little arms are too short to reach down into their pockets”.
George Eddy, a person who does not tip, according to various collections of food service jargon such as “Diner Slang” at Wordorigins.org.
Stiff, “a poor tipper; tightwad”, Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997), according to Infoplease (a Pearson website). The term is also used in the context of casino gambling, according to Vice Slang (Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, 2008).
Verbal tipper, “a very enthusiastic guest who will praise you to the skies in lieu of tipping you actual money”. From a list of “A Glossary of Restaurant Lingo, Slang & Terms” at a food service blog.
Tightwad: a stingy or miserly person. A miser.
Synonyms are
- cheapskate
- churl
- hoarder
- moneygrubber
- scrooge
- skinflint
- stiff (definition 21c - a poor tipper, a tightwad)
- penny-pincher
- pinchfist
- pinchpenny