Our kids are working their way through school serving tables.
They get stiffed the most by high school students and worthy Mormon priests in white shirts and ties. They see them coming and pretty much plan on no tip.
I tip fairly well for great service and a great meal, usually 20%, but the opportunities to do so for me are becoming less and less frequent. Money is much more dear than it was five years ago.
If it’s acceptable service for a decent meal, the scale slides downward. Fifteen, maybe even as low as ten if the server didn’t really have to bust his or her hump too much to take care of my table.
Bad service, whether it’s incompetence, inattention or just a nasty disposition will earn a dollar no matter what, unless the bill is under ten, another increasingly rare thing.
The people who absolutely DEMAND a tip are invariably the least capable of earning one, in my exposure.
Don’t get me started on automatic gratuity, the service is always mediocre. They know they’re getting it anyway, no reason to put that much effort into it.
I’m on the waiter’s side here. You don’t wanna tip, fine. But the remark was absurd.
I’ve only not tipped twice in my life and it had to do with the service, not the fact tat I tithe.
You go to a restaurant, you know that’s how waiters make their money. You don’t like it, don’t go.
Tipping was the reason while my visiting millionaire moonbat in-laws stopped speaking to me.
We took them to a Vietnamese Pho soup restaurant, the best in the area, a busy family run joint with minimal, negligent and quick service by family members (while Mexicans worked in the kitchen, and often brought out your bowls to the table instead of your hustling order taker.) With such service, a family run restaurant, you don’t tip, or tip the absolute minimum.
My sister-in-law had just finished reading a non-fiction tearjerker by a woman named Barbara Ehrenreich, a Lefty elitist snob, who decided to go slumming, pretend to be a regular person and hire herself out as a waitress in order to write a heartbreaking bestselling book about it, which she did. My sister-in-law, a stay at home mom, husband mismanaging inherited wealth, wanted to leave a 25%+ tip at this restaurant, feeling sorry for the poor waitresses (who, by the way, drove BMWs), and I couldn’t explain to her the situation, and the negative effect such tipping would have on my future visits there, long after she left town with her bleeding heart.
It seems archaic now that only restaurants are allowed to pay less than minimum wage. Maybe it's time to change that?
Well, you’re a self serving prig and I’m not surprised you were fired.
Tips are feedback for the quality of service you provide.
I usually tip 20% but, for the 1st time I can remember I tipped a guy 5% at A well known Chinese restraunt chain, on bill for just about $100.
This guy was terrible. kept bringing stuff we didn’t order, plates were graveyard cold, wrong wine.
This guy had issues and I meant cancel my subscription.
I was so irritated my friend called the manager and the manager promptly,.
as in right then, loaded an envelope with 4 gift cars totalling $100
Hmmmm.....wonder what the IRS would say if we all said the same thing this so called “pastor” said.......???
I don’t think most people realize how little waiters and waitresses make pre tips. And I complained about my son’s tips being taken from him and redistributed among all workers when he worked at a car wash. At least he was making minimum wage. But he was really bummed when a $50 tip was taken from him when he worked ALONE on a car one day. It was incentive to find another job.
Mandatory tips for groups of certain size were invented because groups tended to stiff waitresses, occupy tables for a long time, thus, when stiffing, in practice robbing the waitresses, all the while demanding the level of service that smaller parties never required. I was there when it happened, I know. Human packs can be nasty, as travel in packs encourages obnoxiousness and aggression.
They truly earn their wages through service.
If you can't tip don't go out.
80 percent of the time I give 20%
5 percent of the time 15%
15 percent of the time much more than 20%
It is a habit and it blesses people.
I worked in the industry once. I know how important tips are.
Gratis is undeserved favor. It is “grace”
Thank God for grace.
We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make.
Wow, you're better without that job, whiner. Anyone who continues to work as hard as she describes for so little money is an imbecile.
I’m a very good tipper, however, I also have a strong negative reaction to “autotip”.
Last time I was in a cab, I was in a REAL good mood, and I gave the driver a $20 for a $7 cab ride and told him to keep the change. He couldn’t believe it and I had to tell him several times. He thought I was nuts.
If they want a tip from me they have to earn it!
It was at an Applebees and the waitress was one of the worst I've ever had. Took forever to even ask what we wanted to drink (there were two of us). Screwed up the order. Screwed up when she tried to fix it. Never came around for refills (I finally got up and got my own at the wait station), and generally spent most of her time BS'n with her other waitress friend and standing around with her face buried in her phone. Worse, she acted like it was an inconvenience to work there.
I had to flag another waitress to ask if she would flag mine down my actual waitress for the check.
I left two pennies on the table and wrote on the receipt - "My two cents - find a different job because you suck at this one."
Every other time it is 20%.......25% for good service; once while eating on the road, I left 40% at a Dennys because the waitress was awesome (friendly 60 yr old woman that was very courteous)
No one is under paid or under tipped. This is a free market. If anyone doesn’t like their remunerations, they can quit and get another job. Anyone who has not quit, is presumed to agree to their level of remuneration.
Tips are optional. Otherwise, they’d be part of the price.
Tips are “optional.” That said, they are appropriate if you get good service.
A server had to really try hard for me to fail to tip. I’ll even tip a server who screws up if they have a good attitude and I can tell they are really trying to give good service.
I give 15%-20% for good (acceptable) service. Superior service warrants a superior tip.
I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone.
I know snark and bullying are the fad for young leftists these days. It goes with the territory of lefty self righteous entitlement(unmerited, high self esteem), entitlement and class envy (jealously). It is the opposite of graditude, creativity and excellent service to others. This is the worst attitude if you want a happy, successful life.