To me, mints are a crucial part of the restaurant experience. It's the last thing you ingest from the restaurant, and so therefore it leaves a lasting impression. Some restaurants don't give out mints. Big mistake. Calvin is not impressed. Some give out great mints. Two highlights are The Keg and Boston Pizza. Boston Pizza typically gives out a minimum of two mints per person. If your server is nice, you get even more. I tend to overtip Boston Pizza people for this very reason. It's also why I go back there again and again. The Keg gives out just one mint per person, but it's a delicious hard mint outside and liquid chocolate inside. Very impressive. If the prices of the damn steaks weren't so high already, the Keg guys would get high tips too. White Spot doesn't give out mints. Not impressive. I don't want their crap toothpicks. I don't know why I keep going back there. Some places give out this licorice shit. Holy smokes. Spit that stuff out baby. Anyways, moral of the story? Good, plentiful mints? Big tip. No mints. Average tip. Shit mints? Shit tips. Oh....hard to tell for those places that keep the mints at the front. But on the other hand, you can take as many as you want. So that's good. One correction about White Spot. They USED to have mints in a bowl at the front. But not anymore. Is that right? In any case, the past is past. Now they suck.