I always tip and almost always 20%. More if its really good service, maybe a bit less for really bad or late service. I tip are sit down restaurants as well as deliver guys. I also always give my Mail man a gift at Christmas and tend to tip moving guys and delivery guys(for things other then food).
How much do you tip?
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I usually tip around 15% for good service.
The whole point behind tipping is essentially a reward for doing a good job or for going above just what's expected of you. I've been to restaurants in places where tipping isn't customary and I was amazed at how much the service seemed lacking. I'd love to say "hey, everyone should just take pride in their job and do it well, screw tips" but ultimately that incentive to get a few extra bucks does make a difference in how you're treated.
As an example, my friends and I typically go through a lot of water when we go out to eat. The speed with which our servers refill our glasses/pitcher/carafe is thus something we pay attention to, and a decent server will be noting how quickly we go through it and coming back accordingly. Both times I've been to visit my family in France, however, the water refill speed was ridiculously slow. I asked my cousins why that was and they said that there wasn't as much incentive to take care of the customers once the food was brought out. I ran into the same thing in Switzerland and Austria. Now, is it a problem? Well, no, not really - at any point we could just signal our server and then ask for the refill. But as a matter of convenience, it's a nice thing to have and something I'm going to note when contemplating a tip.
As for the smiles...well, they may be fake but I think it's better than the stoic "I don't care" expression you get at other places.
The whole point behind tipping is essentially a reward for doing a good job or for going above just what's expected of you. I've been to restaurants in places where tipping isn't customary and I was amazed at how much the service seemed lacking. I'd love to say "hey, everyone should just take pride in their job and do it well, screw tips" but ultimately that incentive to get a few extra bucks does make a difference in how you're treated.
As an example, my friends and I typically go through a lot of water when we go out to eat. The speed with which our servers refill our glasses/pitcher/carafe is thus something we pay attention to, and a decent server will be noting how quickly we go through it and coming back accordingly. Both times I've been to visit my family in France, however, the water refill speed was ridiculously slow. I asked my cousins why that was and they said that there wasn't as much incentive to take care of the customers once the food was brought out. I ran into the same thing in Switzerland and Austria. Now, is it a problem? Well, no, not really - at any point we could just signal our server and then ask for the refill. But as a matter of convenience, it's a nice thing to have and something I'm going to note when contemplating a tip.
As for the smiles...well, they may be fake but I think it's better than the stoic "I don't care" expression you get at other places.
I don't tip. In England, waiters and waitresses don't live on tips. However, my family goes to one restaurant often and a good friend of ours is an employee, so if he serves us we give him a few quid.
I watched a show about an area in New York where, no matter what service you're getting, if you don't tip 20% they will follow you into the street and embarass you, calling you cheap. I would punch their lights out.
EDIT: However; say my bill is something like £19.35. If they were good I will leave a £20 note and just leave, hoping they get the message. If they were absolutely terrible I will take my time to pay the bill to the penny. But fuck it, this is England. Our waiters and waitresses get excellent wages. Also, I never discriminate between genders when deciding whether or not to tip. If you tip a hot girl a large amount, you look as pathetic as you probably are.
I watched a show about an area in New York where, no matter what service you're getting, if you don't tip 20% they will follow you into the street and embarass you, calling you cheap. I would punch their lights out.
EDIT: However; say my bill is something like £19.35. If they were good I will leave a £20 note and just leave, hoping they get the message. If they were absolutely terrible I will take my time to pay the bill to the penny. But fuck it, this is England. Our waiters and waitresses get excellent wages. Also, I never discriminate between genders when deciding whether or not to tip. If you tip a hot girl a large amount, you look as pathetic as you probably are.
In New Zealand you were not expected to tip much but as an American with an expense account(I miss my old job) I did anyways. I know that most Europeans don't tip but I love when people say that the servers don't know what to do with tips. Because they sure as hell never had any problem figuring out what I was doing.Xersues said:
It actually bugs me about how many people don't tip or tip poorly in the US. Especially for things like Open bars at wedding. You are getting free fraking drinks you might as well throw the bartender a few bucks for his time.
In America anything less than 20% for adequate service is an injustice. Regardless of your views on the idea of tipping in general its how servers make their living doing a job that stinks. Sure its not as physically demanding or as dangerous as many jobs, but its psychological warfare, believe me. And for all of you Americans who don't tip enough, or idiot foreigners who come to America and don't tip because its not customary in your country, I hate you all.
You're reported for that attack on me there. I actually said we left a tip? Where I live, waiters don't live on tips anyway.khaimera said:
"Aholes" "your kind" and "mommy and daddy" were uncalled for, I hope you get banned.
I vote for this, because my Grandmother is a waitress and when I was still in high school, my grandfather was having open heart surgery and we were living off her tips from waitressing for a little while. It was hard but those tips came in handy when the bills were up.thiosk said:
And also, I usually go on how good the service is, but I always give a good tip. =]
I tip around 0-10% depending on the service, how much money I have to spare, what sort of mood I'm in... The list goes on.
I find it interesting that many people from the UK say there's no custom for tipping; I've always thought there was as long as they provided a good service, etc.
With that in mind, I do abide by the custom. This is probably to avoid the aforementioned feeling of being a twat, but also because I'd never want to be a waiter myself, unless the pay was stupidly good (15 GBP+). Plus, the amount of flak waiter/waitresses take from self-important customers is ridiculous (though this can be said for many low-level jobs).
I find it interesting that many people from the UK say there's no custom for tipping; I've always thought there was as long as they provided a good service, etc.
In the UK the minimum wage is exactly that, the minimum amount every employer has to pay the employee (which is around 5.60 GBP for employees over 21, something like 8 USD-ish). It's because of this that I don't really agree with the tipping custom. Why should they make me feel like a twat for not giving them a tip when I worked my ass off for 4.77 GBP an hour and got nothing?thiosk said:
With that in mind, I do abide by the custom. This is probably to avoid the aforementioned feeling of being a twat, but also because I'd never want to be a waiter myself, unless the pay was stupidly good (15 GBP+). Plus, the amount of flak waiter/waitresses take from self-important customers is ridiculous (though this can be said for many low-level jobs).
I think I'd more tip the delivery guy (pizza or otherwise) more than the waitress/waiter because the delivery guy has to (most likely) pay for his own gas, and also for their willing drive out to where my friends and I are. They have to put up with traffic and everything. The amount I give usually varies.
Hear Hear!WrongSprite said:
He sounds a fucking dick "if they don't tip enough I call them out". If he tried that where I lived he'd get the shit kicked out of him. I'm with you on this one Wrongsprite.
Khaimera: if you're upset that people don't tip you, get a proper fucking job that pays. They really aren't that hard to come by.
For the most part I tip very high, 25-30%. If I'm eating out I don't give a shit about a few extra dollars and those waiters/waitresses usually do depend on tips for their income. If one was a total asshole I probably wouldn't leave a good tip, but I've never had that happen.
The minumum wage for Over-22's in the UK is Five Pounds Eighty Per Hour. [http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nmw/] That's $8.98 per hour.thiosk said:
I think a lot of profile-checking is needed in this thread.
If a mod's reading this: Can we get the pound sign working, please? Pretty please?