50 posts into this and I'm the first to post this? Slackers all yall
Posted on 10/04/2017 8:52:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Great heart, my friend. I agree. These folks work hard and get little appreciation. I did food service in college. I was behind the grill, but the waitresses worked their butts off. And most of them were young moms trying to make ends meet for young families.
I believe she did cry. It made her bills for that week. It was a saintly act.
If the issue is bad food, that is the kitchen, not the waiter/waitress, and I don't hold it against the person serving the food. If the service is bad, not because of overwork but because of attitude, I may have an issue. I try to figure out whether the attitude is habitual or a bad day. If it's a bad day, I'm not going to add to it by sending her home on less than minimum wage. If my best guess is that it's habitual, all bets are off. On the flip side, if the service is excellent, my tips can go well above 20%.
That seems reasonable to me.
I have gone above 20% on rare occasions, but I think the business has some level of responsibility. I don’t want to change that impression in their minds.
Are there high end restaurants where waitresses sign on to a tip only plan because the meals are that expensive? Yes. They are the exception. It’s no different than someone choosing a commission only job. If they’re willing to gamble like that, then I’m fine with their choice.
1. General tip - 10%
2. Cute waitress - 15%
3. Cute, flirty waitress - 30%
4. Cute, flirty, and I’ll be coming back - 50%
Hmmm. Don’t seem to have mentioned service at all.
In the Bahamas, the "gratuity" is built right in to the total for the meal, etc. Tipping is not a choice.
I always tip 20 percent. Period.
Cracker Barrel food poison’d me a month ago.
Had hives for 7 days after that one. No more.
Outback with potato soup and a shrimp off the barbie.
I agree. I’m generous to a fault if the server is good, last time I forgave a server that forgot my wine with a meal (which should be unforgivable) but he was a nice guy and took care of us otherwise.
If the server is a jerk, I feel no obligation to tip them at all.
Agreed.
50 posts into this and I'm the first to post this? Slackers all yall
One case of good service was an obsessive/compulsive waiter who scrubbed each table and menu clean. It’s a restaurant not known for great food or cleanliness, but this guy’s tables were like new. When he had nothing to do, he scrubbed anything that might have gotten sticky/syrupy. The service was quick, attentive without being overpowering, and cheerful. [The one negative - He maxed out my gaydar, but at least he didn’t do anything overtly annoying beyond his natural prancing around.]
That waiter also recommended against a particular desert that my wife was going to order (”that’s getting a little dry, and customers who choose that aren’t finishing it”) and provided a similar recommendation that he said was fresh - and it was good. We wanted cheap but tolerable food on the road with no wait. What we got was, in large part because of that waiter, much better. That’s a 30% tip.
A cute, flirty waitress would have been more fun, but not a better tip. Probably.
Bo choice, huh!
When is it OK to take FROM the tip jar?
Well, I swan. Forget Hallmark. There’s a Seinfeldism for every occasion.
“If the server is a jerk, I feel no obligation to tip them at all.”
That is the way I am.
I used to have a bunch of Mexican $500 peso coins. They were made of brass or something and when you shined them up , with brasso, they looked like gold.
Whenever I went out to eat and had bad service I would leave
one of these $500 coins.
It looked great but when they checked I think the exchange rate was something like 16 cents.
A colleague of mine and I ate dinner at a restaurant where the overweight waitress put us in a room at the back with no other customers. The air conditioning chilled us to the bone and the service was lousy. Rather than leave no tip, we augmented the message by leaving her one penny. The waitress insulted us on the way out.
I was traveling away from home on Thanksgiving. I was grateful to get a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and the waitress was working and away from her family. She probably missed her own family dinner because she was serving me.
I’m not a fattie, but no need to mention the waitress was overweight.
I’m sure there are excellent waitresses on the heavy side.
Now, if you’re not going there for the food, I might understand. :)
We should never tip. It’s the owner’s responsibility to pay his employees, not the customers’.
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