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.
> Servers are really sales people, and giving them a commision on what they sell is smart business.
Fine, I’m a salesman and my employer pays my commission — not the customer. At least, not directly: commission is built into the margin.
> What incentive would they have to sell an expensive bottle of wine, or a more profitable “Special,” if they only get a fixed charge for either one?
Why should the customer pay that directly? Incentivizing staff is an employer responsibility, because it is the employer who profits.
Tipping is Evil.
Let them eat cake.
You seem to lack faith in the efficacy of ambition.
But since you seem to prefer fast food places, why do you care?
I wonder how many of these one time things the service was bad. People think soandso is rich they should tip me even if I fart in their food.
I used to be a waitress at an upscale restaurant in downtown Chicago. Scottie Pippen was there all the time. He had a rep as No Tippin Pippen. Well the waitress that called the paper with that was a terrible waitress. He was always generous with me (and I’m not the type looks wise you’d think he’d tip hoping to get into my pants).
It’s been reported that Rush tips well...sometimes $1,000
However, I agree with some of the posters....when the service is no better or worse for a meal that costs $7.50, or one that costs $75.....the waitstaff doesn't get 10x as much from me.
Of course, the bill at Mom and Pop BBQ joints is never $75. If it was, I'd be finding a new BBQ joint. :-)
Tipping has gotten out of hand in the U.S.
The last time I was there, anything that moved had to be tipped.
HAHAHAAHHA!
I would probably be considered a bad tipper - the way I look at it, God only asks for 10% for a tithe. Like it was stated here in a previous post - it costs no more to bring out a $10 burger than it does to bring out a $100 meal. I will tip more if the service is really extraordinary - but, that seems to be happening less frequently.
They are all libs except Dog and Marino and they are flakes. Tiger is a friend of Obama.
An oasis of civilization. Keep it quiet until I get there.
“Rachel Ray – Tipped $1 on a $10 tab”
And Don Henley only tipped 15%?
Ummm... Are either of those really so awfull?
In my experience, servers are usually liberals (probably cuz they’re young) who think they desreve all kinds of tips for the minimal effort they put out.
And while they love big gvt, of course they don’t report all their tips as income.
I'd bet that is partly because if he didn't it'd be front page news.
Do you really want people who make minimum wage waiting on you? Really good waiters and waitresses do the job because they make good money. The better they are at their job, the better restaurants they can work at, the more money they make.
A top line restaurant can bring a waiter several hundred a night in tips. And since tips are pooled, good wait staff tend to appreciate each other’s skills and will get a bad waiter fired if they are getting bad tips for bad service.
Waiting is one of the few team oriented work environments outside of sports. And winning teams make good money.
I know people who have waited on the Obamas. They tip the minimum when they are together. Barack basically tips nothing but here’s the shocker. Michelle tips nicely.
My friend who lives near Crawford has waited on the Bushes many times. They always tip very generously and cover for the secret service agents with them.
I guess the famous figure that having the pleasure and rare opportunity of waiting on celebrities such as they are is tip enough. I’m sure that these self-absorbed cheapskates get right on their cell phones right after they leave to call another self-absorbed friend to talk about how their waiter is probably telling everyone they know that they waited on them. Probably imagining to themselves that the common folk are swooning over the experience, when probably the wait staff are spouting nothing but cuss words to describe the self-absorbed cheapskate.
the level of service you receive from a high-end dining is light years ahead of what you get from a chain restaurant.
if you prefer to go to fast-food joints, that's cool. but if you go to a place and do not tip a certain percentage, then you deserve the ire of the staff and should get a good talking-to.
if you leave $6 on a $30 bill, that's 20%. if you leave that same $6 on a $300 bill, that's 2%.
if you think that is acceptable, then please stick to long john silver's.
Why would there be any when a lot of people in that profession seem to expect a tip?
You're wrong.
It may work that way at McDonald's, but when the choice of entree, an extra app or dessert, or a couple of extra cocktails can easily add $100 to the bill, I will hire the most ambitious waitstaff I can.
Most people, here on Earth, work for money.
It would be nice to think that pride is enough.
It's not.
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