Tipping provides an incentive for good customer service. Ideally it should reward it too. Of course some tightwads always try to rationalize their cheapness as standing up for some kind of principle.
Mulla Nasrudin went to a Turkish Bath.
As he looked quite impoverished and was shabbily dressed, the attendants treated him with contempt in quite a disdainful manner, and gave him only a scrap of soap and an old towel.
When he left, Nasrudin gave the attendants one gold coin each.
Yes, each attendant got a tip of one gold coin each.
The attendants were perplexed.
Tips of one gold coin each for such shoddy treatment…?
The bath attendants could not understand it.
They even regretted the indifferent way on which they had treated Nasrudin as they wondered that if they had treated him better Nasrudin would have probably given them an even larger tip…maybe even a few gold coins each…! The following week Nasrudin appeared again at the Turkish bath.
This time, of course, he was looked after like a King in full luxurious style.
After being massaged, perfumed and treated with the utmost deference, and given a lavish and extravagant perfumed bath with the most expensive aromatic oils and perfumes, Nasrudin, while leaving, handed to each attendant the smallest possible copper coin and said, “These copper coins are your tip for the shoddy service you gave me last week, and the gold coins I gave you last week on my previous visit were the tip for today’s excellent service.”
“Of course some tightwads always try to rationalize their cheapness as standing up for some kind of principle.”
Like “Mr. Pink” In “Reservoir Dogs”?
I don’t like some, maybe most restaurants combining all tips and divvying it between all servers. I pay for my server’s ability alone, not the others.
It is more incentive to do a good job, and I tip extra if they do a really good job...as it should be.
The employer should pay the employee, the idea that customers should be charged more than the advertised price (false advertising) or expected to pay more because the employer is a tightwad is ridiculous.