Celebrities (mostly liberal) who are terrible tippers

Bitter Waitress ^ | 8/23/03 | ILMH

[I_Love_My_Husband]

*Natalie Portman - (loc.)Boston (#in party)2 (amt/tip)$27.00/$3.00 (tip %)11%

*Tom green (loc.)Los Angeles (#in party)5 (amt/tip)$175.00 /$15.00 (tip %)8%

*Serena and Venus Williams (loc.)Boston (#in party)12 (amt/tip)$280.00 /$20.00 (tip %)7% *********

*Madonna (loc.)New York (#in party)4 (amt/tip)$120.00 /$10.00 (tip %)8%

*Natalie Merchant (loc.)New York (#in party)2 (amt/tip)$108.00 / $8.00 (tip %)7% ******

*Allen Iverson (loc.)Detroit (#in party)5 (amt/tip)$495.00 / $50.00 (tip %)10%

*********Tipper's Name: Serena and Venus Williams Restaurant: Italian Where it happened: Boston Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $280.00 / $20.00 / 7% What happened: They came in with coaches managers and groupies....ordered things that were not on the menu only drank a strict 40% water 60% cranberry juice mixture and very rudely snapped their fingers for water refills (they had played that afternoon). The manager payed one bill and tipped well the groupies payed the other and left only 20 bucks. They were awful, and when they got the bill had us split it 12 ways and denied ever ordering half the things their fat asses just ate! Never again if these two walk in will i jump to serve them and their group of 12- 14 aunts uncles cousins neighbors and any or all other groupies that walk around kissing their asses!

******Tipper's Name: Natalie Merchant Restaurant: Campagna Where it happened: New York Total bill / Tip amount / Percentage: $108.00 / $8.00 / 7% What happened: Not to mention all the shit she got for free that night from the evil owner of this now defunct B-list celeb shit hole

[Stopislamnow]

I tip well, or poor depending on service. I've been eating out for a long time. I can usually tell as soon as I sit down if it's gonna be shoddy service or excellent service. How you ask?

Well, if my waitress brings me ice water/water as soon as I sit down I know its gonna be good service. No water usually means the service is gonna be crap.

After years of fine dining from coney islands to posh highbrow joints, this has mostly proven true 98% of the time.

[JesseHousman]

An Albuquerque New Mexico restaurant waiter claimed the best tippers he served were Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

The worst tipper has to be the fuzzy-faced, fat-assed, poor-excuse-for-a-senator, Hitlery Rodham.

When her Bitchness finished two breakfasts at t restaurant in the Buffalo area she left nothing. I'm not even certain that Hitley, nor any member of her entourage paid the bill.

Of course America owes her much for her service to the nation as president, and she shouldn't have to pay for anything.

[twigs]

We tip well, too; 20%. My husband and I have very limited means and when we eat out, we almost always go to locally owned establishments that serve good, but very reasonally priced, meals. We know that many servers who work at these types of places need the money. Lately, however, I've been leaving less (10-15%) if the server's attitude is bad.

[cajungirl]

Well, the restauranteurs know they pay low wages. I use the "she could be my daughter or my mother" standard for tippiing and I always tip 15% at least and if she or he makes me think one could be my child, I tip 20%. That is the way the system is. I even tip bad service because anybody could have a really bad day. I guess I am a compassionate conservative, I feel admiration for people who do the worst job and depend on the kindness of strangers. Heck I tip our garbageman, movers, people who deliver things. I even tip our lemonade stand kids in the summer. I tip the grandchildren for existing. Maybe that is why I am not rich. I feel good however.

[estrogen]

This is an interesting thread which brought to mind the new reality show "The Restaurant"

Has anyone that has watched this have the desire to go to Rocco's? What did it for me was the sweat dripping of the chef as he prepared a beautiful looking plate for the unsuspecting diner in the dining room.

Thank you, but after seeing that show, I can't help but think that Rocco's didn't do much for it's reputation by allowing cameras in. Just my thoughts

[LaraCroft]

At some of those meal prices, expensive wine must have been served, and that isn't tipped at the same rate as a meal.

Regardless, for food I never tip less than 20%, unless the service is bad and then it goes down accordingly.

If you can't afford to tip, you shouldn't go out to eat. It's part of the package

On the other hand, nothing annoys me more than the tip buckets next the registers at places like Starbucks. They do nothing beyond taking your money and pouring you a drink, less than the people at McDonalds do, AND they make pretty good money, but feel no shame about begging for more.

I think wait staff compensation should be adequate from the restaurant, and tipping is a bonus for good service.

[LaraCroft]

I saw one of their shows in Vegas. The cut up and burned an American Flag. As part of their magic act. Of course, it came out at the end unscathed, but I was the ONLY one booing in the entire sold out show when they were doing it.

I don't care if he is leftist or not... bad taste, bad judgement and the show was filthy.

[Tall_Texan]

The % concept discriminates against people who cannot get jobs in upscale restaurants or who live in poorer areas with no trans to work, and bust their ass for 1/10th of what the elite waiters get.

I agree but there's a reverse factor too. The upscale restaurants get far less of my business because they typically charge twice as much for the same food as a place that's not as trendy. I prefer two types of places - the moderately priced ones for entertaining others or to "treat" myself, and the hole-in-the-wall types that serve good food at a below-market price and the service is usually just passable but occasionally spotty. These are good spots for a lunch or early dinner.

The upscale places usually price themselves out of my market pretty quickly so their employees aren't really seeing any of my money.

If I lived in a place like San Francisco or New York (I shudder just to think of it), I'd probably find a few old reliables, frequent them regularly and never bump into Venus Williams or Sean Penn.

[Republican Red]

From an old WP article June 1, 2003 link won't work:

President Bush's 21-year-old daughters, Jenna and Barbara, who didn't used to like spending time in Washington, seem to be feeling very much at home in D.C.'s trendy Adams Morgan neighborhood. The twins, along with an unnamed young man who seems to be Jenna's boyfriend, were spotted having dinner Wednesday night at Perry's. We hear that the threesome took barely an hour to chow down seared scallops, black bass, cured beef salad, sushi and desserts of cherry crisp and chocolate cake -- plus two bottles of Sauvignon Blanc. Not French Sauvignon Blanc, mind you: One bottle was from New Zealand, the other from South Africa. The daughters were also spotted lighting their cigarettes not from matches, but from already-lit cigarettes (a pleasure they certainly can't enjoy in New York City!). Celebrity Tip Challenge-wise, they left a respectable $30 extra on a $154 tab (19%).

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Glad to hear it! Good that the girls are good tippers!

[Mean Daddy]

People complaining about how much it is celebrities tip? I guess waiters/waitresses deserve their 15%? Sort of like Soccer Mom's not deserviing their SUV's.

By the way, Warren Buffet (2nd richest man in the world) only tips 15% when he's at Gorat's in Omaha, Nebraska.

[Tall_Texan]

Being a waiter taught me a good lesson: Alot of customers are complete as*holes.

I believe every young person should be forced to work either as a food server or at a convenience store as part of their work experience. If one were constantly on the other end of being treated similar to a vending machine, they'd be more sympathetic and sensitive to those that do service work and would be more understanding and fair with them. Nobody deserves to be treated like dirt although a few bring it upon themselves.

[Criminal Number 18F]

I hate tips. I've never been into haggling, either. Just give me the price, and I'll decide what I want to buy.

Unfortunately, it's one of those artefacts of American society and labour law that restaurants and similar can pay someone a reduced wage in the expectation that the workers will be tipped. The fact is there, and if one doesn't tip, one is essentially refusing to compensate someone else... it's perfectly legal, but you have to decide if it's right.

I'm very conscious of it, because when business is good I am making more money that those people, and they are working harder than I, and in many cases out of necessity, with little real love for what they do.

Some restaurants pool the tips and all waiters and waitresses get a pro rata share. I find that socialistic and reprehensible -- I like being rewarded commensurate with my achievements, and I especially like to reward someone whose efforts have pleased me.

I hate commissions too. Just pay employees a decent salary

Commissions are en excellent tool for motivating sales people, and most sales pros would have it no other way. In any business, the good salesman or saleslady will be one of the best rewarded people. I have known many salespeople who, through hard work and dedication to customer satisfaction, have earned more than their company's VPs or CFOs or CEOs.

Restaurant service people have to work just as hard as, say, people who sell professional services, high-tech equipment, machine tools, or business jets; and they do it for those few dollars customers throw on the table or scrawl on the credit-card tab.

Something completely different -- I wonder if part of the poor tipping that has the people on that wesite so irritated, is simply that many celebs are innumerate, and find calculating a 15% tip an unbearable burden. It's easy to see some of the mentioned celebs going into brainlock in the attempt.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[pbear8]

The sail boat crowd was rich, liberal, stuck up, and tight asses. Typical

NOT typical - we own a sailboat.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Hopefully you tip at least 20% :)

[Criminal Number 18F]

Gold Card Users don't tip crap.

I had the Platinum Card, and have always thought of myself as a reasonable tipper (then, doesn't everybody, whether he gives $1 or 25%? -- both of which I have done occasionally). But while deployed, I didn't pay my bill. Came back to find that they had cancelled my card over $487 unpaid. I paid the bill, of course, but they didn't reinstate the card. After all, I was a deadbeat with a bill that went unpaid for months. I called and explain the situation.

"What, you want a break just cause you're in the Army?"

Well, when you put it that way, it does seem very unreasonable of me, doesn't it?

So, when people ask if they can pay me with the American Express Card, I politely decline. Sorry about that, my business doesn't take it any more. My goal is to cost them a thousand times that $487 before I am finished.

I'm still trying to figure out how to handle my personal finances when I deploy again.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[pbear8]

15 - 20 percent, depends on the serve. We have a priest friend who consistently tips about 30% when the three of us go out to dinner. The servers love him.

[justlurking]

Penn is the only one that talks (in public).

[ladylib]

I've seen that happen.

[mrustow]

If you mean by a racism thing the use of playing the race card as a means of getting a free ride or pass, I agree. "Racial profiling" affirmative action, the fact that supermarkets don't operate in certain urban areas or offer poor service when they do--the list is too long to catalog here--but all of these things are attributed to racial discrimination. People buy into the lies and frankly racial discrimination has nothing to do with it.

I call it "a racism thing," because black customers are abusing people (waitresses, taxicab drivers, etc.) based on the latter's not being black. The other manipulation and extortion strategies you cited are, of course, also racist.