Waitresses make $2 an hour and you’re not obligated to tip ever.
Unfortunately, some groups are known to typically not tip or tip no more than $2 a person whatever they order. Then when the waitresses don’t want to take those tables here comes Jessie Jackson for the shakedown. (This happened to Denny’s.)
My solution was to leave a tip, but just two cents, especially for waitresses who mouthed off to me for some reason.
Happened to me once at the Blue Note...only time I ever went. Left a tip on the credit card receipt then was confronted out front, guy said I didn’t leave a tip. I straightened him out with a few choice words.
Tips are out of control. Every time you buy coffee or anything else over the counter with a card there is a screen asking you whether you want to give 15, 20, or 25%. For what? I generally tip well, but I am tired of paying someone’s wages that they should be getting from their employer.
Waitress has a big butt.
before the fake china virus, only waiters at a sit down restaurant and pizza delivery drivers got tips.
Now there are tip cups and tips added to electronic checkout screens everywhere you go.
Tipping is out of control. In the ‘80s (when I first started paying for my own meals), a proper tip was 10% before taxes, more if the service was beyond expectation. Now, it 18 to 20%, and when the put their tip suggestions on their receipts or touch screens, it includes tax in the estimate.
Frankly, I would love to get rid of the tipping system. Just bake it into the price of goods and services, and pay the employees salary plus commission on sales.
We never had a problem with our wait staff and tipping {that came to my attention}.
Those were different {more civil} days when people didn't walk around with their heads buried in a computer and actually talked with each other.
Because of my past experience, I tend to tip high, but if the service is lousy or the server has an attitude, I'll make it a point to tell the manager why I didn't leave a tip.
I think I'm doing the server a favor by doing that {although they won't agree}.
If it’s required, it’s not a gratuity.
If it’s a gratuity, it’s not required........................
I grew up in the 1960’s.
The practice was 15% for good sit-down service. I would downgrade to 10% if not up to par in the 1980s but having worked as a few weeks as a waiter in the 1990s, I’m not so ready to do that nowadays.
Don’t expect more from me unless the service was extraordinary or the meal low-priced. Low-priced meals are now history.
People like taxi drivers, hotel room service workers, grocery delivery people, and barbers might get tipped too.
There was a practice of tipping regular service people like trashmen and maids at Christmas time.
Taxi drivers shouldn’t expect a tip from me unless the fare wouldn’t cover traffic delays. Fare is usually rounded up to the dollar.
For meals delivered to my house, my tip would be $2 for a small meal and $3 for a meal that required extra work or had to be delivered more than a mile. If I was charged a stiff delivery fee, expect only $1 at the door.
Is there a video in this article?
Tips aren’t even taxed now. It’s something like a preacher chasing a member who ignored the collection plate out to his car.
“10% of your gross weekly, cough it up pal!”
Entitlement culture. People don’t think they have to earn the tip.
A workervis worth his hire. Leave a tip.
I am sick of the entitlement mentality in service industries. A tip is for good service. You have to earn it. But if you have earned it, then a customer is morally obligated to pay it. The tip is on the price of the meal BEFORE sales tax, and the standard tip is 15%. More for better service, less for lesser service. IMHO, you also have to work for no tip at a restaurant.
I don’t tip at a fast food joint if I am picking up - no one gave me advice as to what to order, and no one carried a tray to my table and actually served me.
I find the “mandatory“ tip of 18% for parties of 6 or more to be obnoxious - 6 people are going to have a larger bill, and a standard tip will be larger as a result. Oh, and what if the service is lousy? I once had a huge argument with a manager about that after some bad service. He insisted that I pay it, as it was printed on the menu. I said that a tip was for good service, which I did not receive, and that rather than berating me, maybe he should talk to the waiter about treating customers better. I invited him to call the police, which he never did. I also told him that if this is how you deal with customers - trying to shake them down instead of making their dining experience pleasant, then the whole place deserved to go belly up. Needless to say, I have never been back.
I’m starting to prefer the new restaurant model where you pay at a register up front, sit down and your food will be brought out to you. You can choose to tip or not right at the register.
Seeing this all over California now - I think it’s to prevent dine and dash.
I am not a fan of “tipping”. I do it because it is expected. Yet, I don’t always tip.
If they didn’t do anything other than their JOB, I don’t tip. Put your tip jar up there, but I won’t be putting anything in there.
Because prices have gotten out of control, a dinner for two, regardless of total $, gets no more than $10.00. 15% my arse.
Tipping is a custom that should be done away with.
A gratuity is wholly voluntary. Go away, bitch. You bother me.
Tipping has gotten crazy. I’m tired of being asked to tip every place I go.
When I was in high school and worked part-time at KFC (we all had part-time jobs back then and still managed school and extra-curricular activities), we were strictly forbidden to take tips.
Every once in a while, some kind-hearted soul would try to give one of us working the counter a small tip and we politely refused.
Now, the fast food places give you that stupid pad with tip amounts right in your face. On the rare occasion I go to a fast food restaurant, I make sure to have cash so I can bypass that BS.
I do tip well at regular sit-down restaurants with wait service - if the service is decent. It almost always is. If it’s not (and I can’t remember the last time it wasn’t) I’ll at least give them 10% unless they were outright rude or something.