I overtip like CRAZY because... well Ive worked in retail/food business before and its AWFUL, Just tonight I gave a waitress a $20 tip on a $45 check because she was pretty cool, My friend also got a date with her lol
Don't be a bad tipper
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She was waitressing at a restraunt, and it was closing time. A ten-top walks in (that's a group of ten people) and seats themselves. Now, it was passed closing time but they went ahead and let these guys stay and everything made to order, because of the time. So after all is said and done, these guys finish eating and leave, dropping a $2 tip on the table (for something like $150 check) and walking out. Mom loses it, grabs up the two dollars and storms out into the stree after them, and throws it back in one of the guy's face yelling: "Keep your two dollars asshole because you cearly fucking need it more than I do".
Here's the thing (imo) on tipping, if you're going to tip, tip at least a decent amount. When I eat out alone, which is most the time, a dinner sees me leave anywhere from 15-40% tip, depending on food and service quality and overall price of the meal. A meal for myself that costs say, $25 is probably going to see a lower percentage than one that only costs me $8.
If you're not going to tip, well you're a dick and should just go back to eating fast food or self-service salad bars and leave restraunts and waitstaff to those of us who appreciate them. Waiting tables is stressful, thankless work and many customers and employers take the slightest excuse to shit all over them. Non-tippers are just another fly on the midden.
those waitresses can give me all the big toothy smiles they want, i'm not giving them a tip. They just creep me out when they act like its the best day ever. In fact i'd rather tip a surly waitress, so i don't feel dumb when i'm wearing my scowling face when we look at each other. Yah, then its like were both saying life sucks. That'd be a way better restaurant experience.
I don't generally tip, because tipping is not practically part of the paycheck in Australia, and so our workers tend to get more money straight up than in America.
Someone serving me shouldn't require a tip for decent service, that's assumed. I'll consider a tip when I'm genuinely impressed with speed, etiquette and power level.
Someone serving me shouldn't require a tip for decent service, that's assumed. I'll consider a tip when I'm genuinely impressed with speed, etiquette and power level.
Everytime I;m out with friends or family, and they ask me to pitch it and if I don't. quote this scene of the movie. So my views OP, bad waiter/waitress no tip, no matter what.Flamezdudes said:
I used to Cater Private Paintball parties by making sure that everyone stayed safe, was having a good time, and provided and maintained the rental equipment. Hardly ever got any tips, except for the time we had Robin Williams who gave everyone that worked that day $200 tips for keeping our mouths shut that he was playing there that day, was hands down best tip I ever received.
If a waiters' pay, including wages and tips, does not equal or exceed what they would make if they were paid minimum wage, then US Federal law requires their employer to make up the difference (Department of Labor [http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm]).TehCookie said:
I've yet to encounter an argument for why certain people deserve tips just for doing their job. Do your job really well, and of course I'll want to leave a tip. Do your job exceptionally well, and I may even want to tell you manager how much I appreciated the service. But a tip just for doing what I'm already paying you to do? Sorry, but I just don't see the point.
Hm, I usually go with 15% for average, 20% for good. Parents are cheap as hell though. 10 and 15% for them.
I generally tip 10-15%, but I'm in Canada, where servers get a decent min. wage.
For those in Europe, where min. wages are (generally) pretty decent, I can understand the tipping issue being a problem.
In the US - well, I hope your friend never ends up working as a server....
For those in Europe, where min. wages are (generally) pretty decent, I can understand the tipping issue being a problem.
In the US - well, I hope your friend never ends up working as a server....
Two dollars is the most I'll tip automatically. You'll get what you "deserve" if you do your job well. Anything less then good gets no tip (unless I make a habit of frequenting the establishment). I actually have a server ***** about me and girlfriend not tipping at an all you can eat buffet. Really? Like I'm going to tip you for showing me where to seat? Are you really going to argue about grabbing a can of coke from the fridge because you could just as easily be replaced by a god damn soda fountain machine. I'm doing all the fucking work to the salad bar, all your doing is clearing away plates... SOMETHING ELSE I COULD DO MYSELF IF YOU LET ME.
TBH, it's bullshit. No I don't have sympathy for anyone that earns off tips. Why? You can go out there and get a job that doesn't tip, if you're unhappy about it, thats why. Ayn Rand ************.
TBH, it's bullshit. No I don't have sympathy for anyone that earns off tips. Why? You can go out there and get a job that doesn't tip, if you're unhappy about it, thats why. Ayn Rand ************.
No I won't take a job as as a server for one month. you know why? Cause I'm not a fool. There are plenty of retail jobs where you can earn minimum wage, some even have unions that would benefit you. But if one chooses to throw themselves on the "kindness" of strangers that get whats coming to them.martyrdrebel27 said:
How about all of those people in retail, or the guys who work in fast food or a whole host of other low paid jobs? They work just as hard and have to take a load of crap from customers too and they don't get tips, what makes waiters/waitresses/whatever so special?martyrdrebel27 said:
And the whole point of a tip is to reward service above and beyond what is expected, it should not be the norm.
As others have said, you do your job and get paid by your employer, don't think you get paid enough? find another job.
and no, i don't tip, not unless they really, really deserve it
Eh, how much i tip depends at where I'm at. In Vegas I rarely tipped, but when I did it was because of great service and I'd tip 30-40%. But living in Florida now, where tips make up part of people's wages, I tip 10% usually and more for good service. While it's true that if they fail to make minimum wage with tips their employer legally has to make up the difference, that rarely happens around here. They don't keep track of it and file it as minimum wage usually. And if you can find a service job around here that'll actually pay you for overtime, I'll eat my shoes.
OMG dude!! I totally agree! I'm a freaking cashier at a grocery store, and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been forced to been a listening ear to some elderly woman who recently lost her husband or some middleaged person begging for a friend. And it's not like I'm fauxly waving flags either, pretending to welcome them, I speak in short one word sentences because the only thing I want to do is go about my day no harm no foul. But they rope you into these conversations and jesus fucking christ, does anyone give you or me a parade? no. way. man.EMFCRACKSHOT said:
Theres nothing any waiter has been threw that compares to someone in plain retail, and fact is? the waiter is probably being paid better then us because of the tip nonsense.