[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How much do you tip? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 7/11/2006 8:46:53 AM EDT
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Another board that I'm on there's a 9 page thread about tipping and I seem to be the only one who doesn't tip atleast 15% if not more. So do you tip atleast 15%? |
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Depends on the service and check total, but I don't restrict myself to %'s. For a 10-20 dollar lunch it breaks down like this. Rude Service: $.05 Bad service: $0 Fair service: $2-3 Good service: $3-5 A lot of people might think that's a bit heavy, but I eat lunch in the same resteraunt 3+ times a week. I know all the employees, consider them all friends and feel good about tipping them a little better than the average customers. I've only tipped under $3 there once. |
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I usually shoot for 20%. If the service is poor enough to justify a lousy tip, then I get up and leave. Plenty of other places around to spend my money. I haven't done it very often, but it has happened a few times. I can recall a Denny's out West several years ago, and a local Applebee's twice. Never again will I set foot in another Applebee's. |
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I just had lunch, bacon cheeseburger and fries. After the waitress snapping at me "I can only carry so much!!!" when I asked for some ketchup... Her tip was NOT A DAMNED THING!!! Generally, I tip $2 when I dine out. IF someone is with me, then it's $4. Bad service = no tip. Sorry, but why should I be forced to compensate for a womans poor career choice, taking a job with a very low minimum wage. How many times do YOU get tipped for doing your job??? |
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Usually 18% to 20 % for service that isn't entirely screwed up. My expectations are pretty low. But if the server is a soup sandwich, He/she gets a pocket full of nothing. One thing I never do, is blame the quality of the food on the server. I will never send food back. I get up and leave if the food is poorly prepared/presented. |
That's a BIG +1 |
Had I been in your shoes, I would have replied with a nice firm "Fuck YOU" and walked out. If a waitress can't handle stress, then she shouldn't be in the people industry.  |
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I don't tip based on % just cause I can't do the math. It just depends on how go my server is. One day me and my buddies tipped a girl at AppleBee's 30 bucks off a 20 dollar check. Of course it was one of the guys wives and he tripped her to get money from his credit card so he would have to pay the cash advance fee. |
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0% if my drink goes dry and the server isn't cheerful/pleasant 5% if the server isn't cheerful/pleasant 10% if my drink goes dry (I just get ice water almost always) and the food is good and server is semi-friendly 15% if my drink stays filled, the server is friendly and the food is good 20% if my drink stays filled, the server is friendly, cheerful and pleasant and the food is great |
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I used to be a waitress and they only get payed 2.15 an hour because people tip by not tipping you are cutting there pay. I try to tip depending on the service and how good the food was I have been in customer service for over 10 years and I have had to deal with all kinds of people and I got payed anywere form 6-15 dollars an hour. I do not think that it is right for them to only get payed 2.15 an hour. There are a lot of single moms that waitress because they can work around there children's schedule. You sould rethink your thought on tipping and put your self in our shoes sometimes that type of job is all you can get if you do not have much of a choice and there is nothing else out there. SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT TIPPING
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Got it. Tipping encourages employers to lower hourly wages. I better stop tipping, or before you know it, they'll be down to $1.05 and hour. 
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Doesn't this thread pop up every few months? Questing on Tipping Tipping Question |
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I worked as a cook for 6 years in a beachfront restaurant in CNY. I've seen the girls come into the kitchen bawling because of one thing or another; it would happen all the time- at least once a week. Servers have to put up with a ton of BS every day. Usually I'm a bit more forgiving, $5.00 is my base. Once I waited for my food for a really long time, and the waitress was pleading with the cooks to hurry- apparently they had been running slow all night as the other guests looked very unhappy and some were downright belligerent. I tipped her 100% because I knew she was going to get the shaft from all of her tables. However, there are types of waitresses that have the bitch or idiot syndrome that gets them virtually nothing from me. One waitress I worked with insisted on trying to memorize each of her orders. She would never write anything down because she was trying to "improve her memory." She screwed up nearly every order she sent back and screwed the entire kitchen up often because we had to backtrack to fulfill her tardy orders. The worst was when she did it on the 4th of July in a beachfront restaurant right next to where the fireworks display would be lit off. We petitioned to get her fired. |
Yup. Which means that it must be about time for another union-bashing thread too.....  
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Why? Let's combine the two! If these restaruants were union, the waitresses would earn a livable wage, regardless of tips... ...Of course, a sandwich would cost $50, and $15 of that would be paying the pension of a waitress that retired 20 years ago.
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Especially with customers like YOU. 
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That is the set pay for anyone in that industry it is not there fault that is the only type of job that is available were they can work some choose to work for that and others say ok I guess that is okay I can make it up by giving good service and getting a decent tip. There are people who have been doing this for years and they are fine with it when I first started being a waitress they did not tell me what I was making an hour tey just told me they pay was good. I did not know until I recieved my pay check and found out that was all I was making so this is not B.S. and if you think that it is you can just keep that to your self I am just trying to open the eyes of people who may have never had to take that type of job so they have no idea what the pay is like. If you do not tip because you are being removed. don't do that again. than that is your business and its people like you that make it so bad for the rest of us. I never chose to take that type of job that was all there was at the time but I will never do that again because I am a single mom and I can not live on that kind of money.
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I bartended. Never had a problem. People always tipped. o wait.....Don't want to sterotype but there were always one classification of people THAT never tipped. Even when you add the 15% due to parties eight more they would short you. "Get what i'm saying dogs. "This is just the way our society is. Waitresses work on tips. I think people that don't tip are a bunch of aholes. IF the service is good. I have left a fat nothing times before when service is bad. I don't work on tips but I can say I would be pretty mad if my company did well and I worked my ass off all year and in the end, no bonus. |
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That is not the point I was trying to make, that is the set standard by the department of laber form what I have been told and it will stay at that unless people try and get that changed. I only put this on hear so that people would see how this is and would know that 2.15 is all they get payed so tipping is not only a help but in some people's casses the rest of what they earn for doing there job. I tip other people like my UPS guy who is great, my mailman, my dry cleaner, and my mechanic. It is closed minede people like some on this sight that keep the pay for waitresses at 2.15 like they are a lesser person than the rest of us.
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So let's just slam an entire religion because you had it rough. Boo fucking hoo! Life's a bitch. Welcome to a MAN's world! |
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With me, you either get a tip or nothing at all. For pizza/deliveriesI take the price of everything, lets say for example, $21.50. I will round to the nearest 5 dollar amount and tip that. meaning, the tip for this would be $3.50. For dine in resturants, I will tip exactly the same way but add 5 and what ever pocket change is left. |
Not true.
Not true, it's completely their fault.
WTF? Accepting a job without first agreeing on the pay is monumentally stupid (I don't know what else to call it), and proof that yes - it is their fault. "How much money will I make?" "Alot, just trust me". 
 Oh, that's precious.
I thought you didn't have a choice? Which is it? |
you took that out of context so I did have it ruff but I made that choice you people are failing to see the point which has been said by others so gt over it and move on. I was not bashing on a religion if I was there would have been a capital J not a lower case. It is people like you that make me wonder how this world got so f'd up in the first place. The word jewish means more than a person it also means to be tight or frugal with your money and I grew up in a MANS world so you know nothing. I am a single mom trying to finish school so that I can be an RN I get no child support so yes I have had it bad POOR me boooooo whooooo. Get over it and move on I have.
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