Posted on 11/30/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by big black dog
You’d think with all their money, celebrities would be good tippers. This isn’t always the case. Certain celebrities are notoriously bad tippers. Check it out:
1. Madonna - Doesn’t always leave a tip, when she does it’s a cheap one.
2. Kelly Presten – Notoriously bad tipper. Most of the time she doesn’t leave a tip at all.
3. Gwyneth Paltrow – Doesn’t leave a decent tip. It’s speculated she has trouble calculating the proper percentage.
4. Barbra Streisand – Doesn’t always tip. When she does it’s $10 for a bill of over $450. She’s very high maintenance and demanding and no one ever wants to wait on her.
5. Tobey Maguire – Doesn’t always leave a tip, and when he does it isn’t generous.
6. Bill Cosby – Once left a $3 tip on a $350 order. He probably thinks the waitstaff needs to stop taking from others and get a real job.
7. Ricki Lake – Once left a tip of $8.00 on a $142.44 bill. This after she let her young son run around the restaurant unattended – and he supposedly made a big mess.
8. Bobby Brown – Rude to wait staff, lets his kids run amuk and left a $10 gratuity on a $250 restaurant tab.
9. Sean Penn - He and three others had New Orleans waiters waiting on them hand and foot. The tip left on a $450 tab? Absolutely nothing. There are lots of instances of Sean Penn stiffing waitstaff. How many people do you think have spit in his food by now?
10. Kirsten Dunst – According to one server she’s whiny and smells bad. Left nothing behind after racking up a $223 bill.
11. Dan Marino – Wouldn’t talk to server directly, had to have a member of his entourage handle it. Tipped $10 on $210.
12. David Lee Roth – Is known to be demanding and send food back. Tips 10%.
13. Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman – He and his wife are considered to be very high maintenance. They expect the VIP treatment and only tip %5. At a TGI Fridays in Waikiki they paid $10 for a $250 tab.
14. Rupert Everett – Listed as one of the worst tippers ever.
15. David Byrne – The Talking Heads frontman is considered one of the worst tippers ever because he doesn’t leave anything, ever.
16. Molly Ringwald – Bar tab was the equivalent of twenty-five cents for each round of drinks her large entourage consumed.
17. Diddy – Left a $40 tip for his meal – a dinner for 15 people.
18. Richard Dreyfuss – Bad tipper and high maintenance “whiny” client.
19. Michael Moore – Once left less than $20 on a bill totally $452.52.
20. Jesse Jackson – Left $20 on a $228 tab.
21. John Kerry – Left $20 on a tab of over $700!
22. Britney Spears – Once tipped a valet by dropping change on the ground and telling him “there’s your tip”. Also paid a $26 tip on a $500 tab.
23. Tiger Woods – Doesn’t tip because he says he doesn’t carry cash.
24. Usher - Never tips and always tries to get someone else to pick up the bill.
25. Rachel Ray – Tipped $1 on a $10 tab. Probably didn’t want to go under her $40 a day allowance.
26. Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes – Dined together in an upscale restaurant and didn’t leave a tip.
27. Tom Green – Once left $15 on a $175 tab.
28. Paul McCartney – Once left a restaurant too drunk to leave a tip.
29. Regis – Once left cruise staff a $60 tip for an entire week’s worth of personal service. His wife is said to be very high maintenance and the ship’s crew was happy when she left two days early.
30. Marty Stuart – Leaves 7% – his wife is very demanding.
31. Don Henley – Very demanding, keeps staff members on their toes, tips 15%.
32. D’Angelo – Once left $7.00 on a $250 tab. The tab should have been over $500, mind you, but the r&b singer and his entourage nagged until they got a discount . 33. Mariah Carey – Once had her people call ahead to a restaurant to let them know she was arriving with a very large party. The restaurant stayed open late, and Mariah and crew were very diva-ish with their demands. Despite keeping staffers jumping and a high tab, no one left a tip.
34. Marion Jones – Left $3 on a $45 tab.
why do celebrities feel comfortable for selling themselves? I mean normal people don’t walk around naked but it’s ok for movies and tv or photo shoots for the world to see. No wonder our cultural is collapsing.
First of all let me set the record straight. The federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13/hr. (vs. $7.25/hr. non-tipped). The IRS requires you to claim at least 8% of your total sales as income to calculate your income taxes. Servers on average have to give at least 20% to other employees (busboys, food runners, bartenders, etc.)
So if you don’t tip or tip poorly you are literally taking money out of the server’s pocket. Because the IRS and other employees don’t care if you got tipped or not they are only looking at your sales report.
Servers are sales people...period. How many times do they try to upsell your drink from the house rotgut to a premium brand, try to get to buy an appetizer or desert? It’s all about selling. They are trying to raise your check average in hopes that you will tip accordingly.
Most servers I have met genuinely do care about giving their customers the best service possible. I have seen many a kitchen fights between servers and cooks because food came out wrong or slow...because the server cared.
A recent survey was done on why people tip...10% for food/ atmosphere, 20% for service and 70% for how people perceive themselves.
Just remember TIP is an acronym for To Insure Promptness. As a former waiter I believe 15% is the standard, anything less you should talk to the manager. And quit camparing the US to the rest of the world we don’t compare ourselves to the rest of the world when it comes to other things (gas prices, health care, etc.)because we still live in the greatest country on the face of the earth!
I could pretend and make up a similar list if I wanted to.
34 Notoriously Bad Celebrity Tippers
Monday, November 30, 2009 1:31:21 PM · 2 of 142
nmh to big black dog
Liberals are CHEAP!
All they want to do is SPEND YOUR MONEY
- ideally on themselves.
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I don’t know about Dog the bounty Hunter.
They seem to be a trashy liberal family ... . who knows!
“why do celebrities feel comfortable for selling themselves? I mean normal people don’t walk around naked “
Celebrities, like Kirsten, are hot and we’re not.
Good looking people make a lot of money.
Any questions?
You know...like the large majority of your posts here...I can’t imagine what possible difference it makes to you whether or not Americans tip...what is your angle? Do you think Americans care about NZ cultural practices? We don’t, I can assure you. You’re free to behave as you wish...please extend us the same courtesy.
Is NZ really so boring that you have to get on the internet and discuss American restaurant procedure?
> Do you think Americans care about NZ cultural practices? We don’t, I can assure you. You’re free to behave as you wish...please extend us the same courtesy.
When you say “us” and “we”, n0oB, exactly who do you mean?
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I don’t know either, I just figured if they were bounty hunters, they were not liberals. I do know that they really aren’t spending my money.
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