Posted on 11/30/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by big black dog
Youd think with all their money, celebrities would be good tippers. This isnt always the case. Certain celebrities are notoriously bad tippers. Check it out:
1. Madonna - Doesnt always leave a tip, when she does its a cheap one.
2. Kelly Presten Notoriously bad tipper. Most of the time she doesnt leave a tip at all.
3. Gwyneth Paltrow Doesnt leave a decent tip. Its speculated she has trouble calculating the proper percentage.
4. Barbra Streisand Doesnt always tip. When she does its $10 for a bill of over $450. Shes very high maintenance and demanding and no one ever wants to wait on her.
5. Tobey Maguire Doesnt always leave a tip, and when he does it isnt 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 shes whiny and smells bad. Left nothing behind after racking up a $223 bill.
11. Dan Marino Wouldnt 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 doesnt 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 theres your tip. Also paid a $26 tip on a $500 tab.
23. Tiger Woods Doesnt tip because he says he doesnt 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 didnt want to go under her $40 a day allowance.
26. Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes Dined together in an upscale restaurant and didnt 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 weeks worth of personal service. His wife is said to be very high maintenance and the ships 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. DAngelo 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.
Good point. I never thought of it that way. I’ve asked around our town and they say foreigners are the worst tippers hands down. Especially Canadians. Maybe they don’t tip as much up there and don’t know what is correct here. If the service is horrible, I will drop the tip down to 10% but it has to be really bad.
Ask tickebastard why they charge higher "handling fees" when you buy a $125 ticket vs the $40 seats for the same event.
And they charge it PER ticket even though they are handing over all tickets to a customer at the same time.
Seinfeld: “The bad fiancé, the bad dinner guest, the bad credit risk... the bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen... the bad tipper!”
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George: How much do you tip a chamber maid?
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JERRY: Whatta ya tip a “wood guy”?
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ELAINE: You can get a gardener.
JERRY: You tip him?
ELAINE: You can.
GEORGE: [to Elaine] You don’t tip a gardener!
JERRY: They deliver the coal?
ELAINE: Sure, it’s...probably the same guy, who delivers the wood.
JERRY: Oh, than I gotta tip him.
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Newscaster: Tobias Lehigh Nagy, who is also wanted in connection with a series of unrelated slayings in the North West is still at large, his whereabouts unknown. He’s described as 5’5” bald and reputedly a very generous tipper.
What’s wrong with 15%? Standard tip is still 10%. It automatically indexes itself through inflation.
This is what generally happens when low-brow, low-class, white-trash dirtbags suddenly become "rich and famous". Suddenly, they start treating those who are "beneath" them in a manner in which they themselves were treated before they became famous.
It's sort of like how child abuse gets passed on, generation to generation. You'd think they would have more empathy for the "common" people, since they were "common" once themselves, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Exactly. Seems to me the easiest way for somebody with a grudge to badmouth a celebrity, could simply go to one of these websites and type, “so and so doesn’t tip....” and then it’s taken as gospel.
There should be. Why should one waiter suffer a loss of income because some other waiter got the "good table" with the generous tipper?
Pool all of the money and don't forget to split it with the chefs, food prep people, busboys AND cashier AND greeter.
i dont understand your post. are you saying that if a meal costs $30 at TGIF’s and a meal costs $300 at a steak house, you should leave the same tip?
I always thought Kirsten had big tips.
Excuse me, Tiger, but you can add the tip to your credit card right on the dinner ticket.
Every restaurant I worked at did precisely that.
Well, that's ok,...as long as he didn't puke.
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?
I have no where near the money these celebrities have, but I always carry a few credit cards in my wallet and I usually calculate a 20% tip.
Hollywood really is Hollyweird. They do think we should be honored to be in their presence and that it is a privilege to wait on them.
Yes. Because it is the same work being done by the waiter. The only difference between the two restaurants is the quality of the food, which is something upon which the waiter has no impact.
When I do take the family out, I try to patronize places which do not require tipping, which are usually places where you go pick up the food at the counter when it is prepared. I prefer saving money that way.
chuckle...
Yes, but she also stiffed some wait staff on at least 2 occasions during the last Presidential campaign. Each time it made the News. You’d think that this would get her on this particular list. As far as politicians go, the moral of the story is always leave a good tip and don’t delegate the act to a staffer. If they forget you get the black-eye.
In a lot of restaurants, the tips are not just for your waiter. They are split with the wait staff, the bar, the bus boys, the kitchen and the entrance staff.
So if you have the doorman, the coat checker, the seater, the sommelier, the waiter, the bus staff, and the dish washers, you might have 8+ people who will be splitting your tip. At Applebees, you might have the tip split between 3 or 4 people at the most.
Why not just raise prices by 20%, pay the waitstaff at least minimum wage, put big signs up that say "NO TIPPING" and leave it at that?
I don't see it that way. I figure someone patronizes a restaurant because that restaurant ran advertisments that enticed a patron to come in. A patron doesn't sit at the table and then decide based on what the waiter tells him whether or not he'd be a paying customer.
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