Michael Moore – Once left less than $20 on a bill totally $452.52.
Yeah, but that was just his lunch. Maybe he's more generous when he's eating supper, alone.
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.
Liberals are CHEAP!
All they want to do is SPEND YOUR MONEY
- ideally on themselves.
there appears to be a common thread among this crew ... and Dunst does look like she smells bad
Michael Moore – Once left less than $20 on a bill totally $452.52.
Yeah, but that was just his lunch. Maybe he's more generous when he's eating supper, alone.
Money amplifies character flaws.
SnakeDoc
Why stop there? Howard Hughes didn't even have to pay for meals, he didn't carry (small) cash and let others at the table pay.
I can understand not wanting to carry a lot of cash around. That’s why we have plastic.
Something I do not understand is that when tipping, why shouldn’t there be a maximum possible tip? It costs the server no more to bring out a $10 burger than it does to bring out a $100 dish. Why should the tip for the latter be greater than the former?
How much did the others pay? Bueller?
I never tip. There is no tipping in New Zealand, except by visitors who do not know any better.
Life without tipping is marvelous. The price is the price, and the establishment is responsible for paying their wait staff properly. Those that don’t, don’t end up with good wait staff and they go broke.
Free Enterprise in action.
Y’know. I’ve looked up & down this list and I don’t see “Hillary Clinton” anywhere. Why do you suppose that is?
Would it be wrong to spit in his food over such infractions? He claims he did it himself to customers as a youth.
Some of those aren’t too egregious. Henley leaves 15%? Ok, the new 15% is 20% (it used to be 10% in the 50’s), but that isn’t too bad.
Some of these are “He once...” stories and we don’t know if there was a bad service or wrong orders or something. It’s the “he never tips” or “he tips 5%” or “is notorious for bad tipping” that seem to be the worst ones.
I have heard that Tom Hanks is amongst the best tippers (he worked as a waiter before his big break) and matches the check.
3. Tiger Woods – Doesn’t tip because he says he doesn’t carry cash.
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This is a BS excuse. He can add the tip to the bill. He’s just a cheap, lying jerk.
Not a big McCartney fan, but unless he's always drunk and never leaves a tip I wouldn't hang him on one report. The others were cheap and rude while sober.
31. Don Henley – Very demanding, keeps staff members on their toes, tips 15%.
Isn't 15% considered a normal tip? Granted he could afford more and if he's very demanding then more might be nice but at least he didn't throw change on the ground like Spears is said to have done.
She's low maintenance, she brings her own silverware.
That sure don't cut it - if they can't do the math, they are just as likely to over-tip.
Yep, anyone who has ever worked as a waiter will generally always be the best tippers.
Hard to believe Woods didn’t have a card on him.
I don’t see any evidence for any of these claims in the article.
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