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I've never seen one there.Normally, you tip the 'boat' tip jar.
$5 per tank would be the minimum, IMO.
By the same token, something i often hear is that the traditional 15% is out of date and that service people deserve a "raise". Never mind that that 15% has tripled or quadrupled in absolute value over the same interval of time of which you speak. Personally, I'd prefer that tipping were illegal and merchants simply charged what their goods and services are worth and paid their employees fairly.And it has been quoted as such for almost 20yrs... even as the cost/price of everything else in the world has tripled or quadrupled in the same time frame.
I'm not raising this point as part of an argument for/against tipping. I'm simply fascinated by the fact that, while no one expects to get a can of Coke out of a machine for 50 cents or pay less than a dollar for a gallon of gas today, the $5/tank rule-of-thumb seems frozen in time.