[gunnyg]

Have at it!

[gopheraj]

I tip well for good service and poor to no tip for crappy service. I really hate it when the waitress just about creams her jeans over my hubby trying for a tip when I am the one who pays. Not that he can't, it's just easier for me to carry the money when we go out. We've had waitresses fawn over hubby and totally ignore me. Pisses me the he!! off, BTW, she does not get a tip. The best waiters/waitresses are the ones who are courteous to us both, are there when we need more tea etc and not when we are busy stuffing or face.

[Coastie]

I tip according to the service received.

However, I do have a suggestion for you.

There was an episode of the tv show "Third Rock from the Sun", where John Lithgow,the head alien, has a rough time with a waitress, similar to gunnyg's. The tip system is explained to him and he returns to the resturant. He puts a stack of 1$ bills on the table and explains to the waitress that the bills represent her tip and he will transfer some to her "tip" stack based on her service. For example she brings hot rolls, he puts some bills in her stack, but she forgets butter, he takes some off. It goes on like that with the waitress seeing her tip grow and shrink "in real time".

Very funny bit. No, I've never tried it myself.

[Tree of Liberty]

By the way, I believe (as others have stated before me) that tipping is extortion paid to insure that nothing unseemly happens to my food and drink before it arrives in front of me.

For those that call me a monster for not wanting to graciously pay the "protection money" of my own volition, I believe in capitalism. If a person accepts a waitstaff position for $2/hr, then that is what they believe the marketplace views their services as worth. If they believe they are worth more than that, they have two options: 1)convince the marketplace and the employer that they are worth more, or 2) find another profession where they believe their worth is truly realized.

As for "rectifying the minimum wage", why would any of you want to encourage yet another government imposed subsidy that will have a deleterious effect on the goods and services we consume?

[boris]

A fellow invented a pad of forms to be left in lieu of tip for bad service. It included check boxes telling the waiter exactly what was wrong.

The first time he used one of his forms, the waitress became enraged, followed him into the parking lot, and brained him with an iron skillet.

Let this be a cautionary tale.

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On the other side of the coin (so to speak), I was once in an enormous group at the Hollywood Hamburger Hamlet. Unknown to me, a guy at the other end of the table (in the next county) got into a dispute with the waiter. With the result that the waiter disappeared and we (all of us) got no service. I had to get the manager to get service.

As things worked out, I became the "banker". I was so angry at the waiter that I placed a nickle on the table. He picked up the bill, saw the nickle, and asked, "Is this for me?"

"Oh yessssss...." I told him.

He pushed it back across the table at me.

I picked it up, substituted a penny, and pushed it back at him.

I hate bad service. Only later did I discover what had happened at the other end of the table...but I really didn't care; in my lights there was no reason to punish the group because one idiot had made the waiter angry.

The only thing I cannot endure is being ignored in a place which--after all--is ultimately only about service.

--Boris

[Rebelbase]

gunnyg = skinflint-tightwad.

[discostu]

I like tipping. Being a generous tipper and frequenting the same places gets one known to the staff and the tend to render very good service. Any way, not tipping well usually means having to wait for change, that few minutes is worth a couple bucks.

[sandlady]

Why does this guy frequent restaurants that stress him out so badly?

[Palladin]

Cheapskate!

[ladyinred]

I spent many years as a waitress, and if it were not for the tips, I would never work that hard! Perhaps if you haven't done it, you don't realize what a difficult and hard job it can be. I always tip according to the service. It is is bad, the tip is too. I am most likely more critical of service because I know how it should be done.

I don't see a thing wrong with tipping good service. The truth is the truth, you don't get paid enough to put up with that job without tips.

[Cacique]

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