How much do you tip?

[soam108]

As a pizza delivery guy I got paid I think $4 an hour from the restaurant, plus every order had a small delivery charge that would cover gas, this restaurant was pretty dicky because they would take half of the delivery charge for themselves. Many people would assume that I got the whole delivery charge and that was my tip, but you still have to pay for the wear and tear on your car and make up for the lousy wage.

 

[Klepa]

I've never tipped, I've never heard of any Finn who would give a tip, unless they're abroad.

In here, anyone working below minimum wage can call their respective union, who will promptly go apeshit on the employer.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

Depends on the distance mostly. Being a delivery driver myself, if I have to leave the store for more than half an hour to get you your food and get back, I typically hope for between 3 and 5 dollars. If you're within walking distance, a couple of bucks is nice. I assure you, that guy was grateful.

Now if it's a giant order (for example, a company ordering over 15 pizzas), 10% to 15% is nice as most drivers will split the tip with whoever made the order.

All of this being said, I usually tip about $3 depending on the cost of the food for deliveries. In a restaurant, 15% to 18% unless that comes to less than $3, in which case I leave $3.

And for anyone who says that they are being paid to do their job and shouldn't get tipped, try driving someone's food to their house for 5-8 hours a night on a pay rate of $7.50 an hour. Of that $3 the place adds to your bill, the driver only sees about $1.50 for gas. Any kind of other things like car repair comes straight out of their pocket.

 

[Vault Citizen]

Sometimes I tip sometimes I don't. I live in the UK and here it is illegal for employers to subsidise pay with tips. Sometimes I feel guilty if I don't tip and other times I'm not bothered but I never tip anyone other than a waiter. At the end of the day paying them is what their employer is for.

 

[JochemDude]

Allow me to quote Reservoir Dogs
"I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job."

Damned I got ninja'd

 

[Fishyash]

To be honest I haven't tipped ever. Is it because i'm English?

I find it strange how tipping is percieved in the US as a mandatory thing, how it is an insult to the worker to not recieve a tip. It's even stranger that people factor tips as part of a minimum wage in the US, why is that allowed?

Oh well, if I was to tip in England it's probably due to being in a fancy restaraunt with several friends/relatives and the waiter provides great service.

 

[holy_secret]

I don't tip. This is Sweden. We don't do that.

Pfft. It's 12% in sweden. That's what I tip at least.
Snåle fanskap

I lol'ed hard!

OT: In Sweden you rarely tip. Only on proper restaurants and if you are pleased with the service. They already get cash for serving us... me and my family tip from 2$ to 10$ it depends on the service.

That's true. I guess I've never thought of it like that
I remember in Germany, one is supposed to tip the janitors of the toilets after using them. Wtf.

 

[Flames66]

I do not tip. I am not giving someone more money for something that they are already paid to do.

you do understand that most of these people are not paid well. In fact, the majority of food industry workers(some chefs included) have their tips factored in as their actual wages. So the employer just pays the minimum possible(which I think is about 2.50-3.50 american an hour here in the US.) and tips are supposed to suppliment this.

There some places where only the management team is paid well, and the way other employees get livable income in they pool all the tips at the end of the night and split it up.

So no, they are not paid to do their jobs because they are barely paid at all. You are a horrible person for not being generous and I hope you burn for it. (I worked in a place for two years that we were only paid 3.75 for an hour and relied solely on tips for any sort of livable income.)

I myself tip between 10 and 20 percent. Normally it's 20 however if the service is terrible, I will cut my tip in half. I've also been known to increase tip sizes when others whom were responsible to tip barely even place down five percent.

Where I am from serving staff are not treated as slaves. There is a national minimum wage and companies have to stick to it. I might consider tipping if whoever is serving me goes above and beyond what they are already paid for, but with the extortionate prices most eating establishments charge that is unlikely.

 

[jackknife402]

I do not tip. I am not giving someone more money for something that they are already paid to do.

you do understand that most of these people are not paid well. In fact, the majority of food industry workers(some chefs included) have their tips factored in as their actual wages. So the employer just pays the minimum possible(which I think is about 2.50-3.50 american an hour here in the US.) and tips are supposed to suppliment this.

There some places where only the management team is paid well, and the way other employees get livable income in they pool all the tips at the end of the night and split it up.

So no, they are not paid to do their jobs because they are barely paid at all. You are a horrible person for not being generous and I hope you burn for it. (I worked in a place for two years that we were only paid 3.75 for an hour and relied solely on tips for any sort of livable income.)

I myself tip between 10 and 20 percent. Normally it's 20 however if the service is terrible, I will cut my tip in half. I've also been known to increase tip sizes when others whom were responsible to tip barely even place down five percent.

Where I am from serving staff are not treated as slaves. There is a national minimum wage and companies have to stick to it. I might consider tipping if whoever is serving me goes above and beyond what they are already paid for, but with the extortionate prices most eating establishments charge that is unlikely.

Yeah, there's a national minimum here as well. But there's two of them, one for normal businesses and companies, another for ones where there is a chance the people will get tipped. The tip one is much lower, however the minimum wage for normal companies is still so low that unless you live in a shack and eat porridge day after day for sustenance, you can't live off of it.

 

[WaffleGod]

Don't tip here in Belgium. Really don't quite understand the reason to "tip". IMO, it's sort of a flawed system.

 

[thatguy1]

I recall the episode of Seinfeld when they're in LA.

Ann Landers says a dollar, but then again "Ann Landers Sucks!"

In reality, since I amm a poor college student, I only tip occasionally, generally at establishments that have served me well, not just sit-down restaurants.

There is even this cheap 24 hour burrito place in the town I'm in, and I would always tip them because of the excellent job they do, In comparison to a chain sit-down restaurant which the service and food are only okay, and I generally don't tip.

 

[Sethzard]

It really depends. If the service was great if it was aweful then I don't. I do at my regular places and at others it really depends. If I do usually over 10%

 

[Flames66]

I do not tip. I am not giving someone more money for something that they are already paid to do.

you do understand that most of these people are not paid well. In fact, the majority of food industry workers(some chefs included) have their tips factored in as their actual wages. So the employer just pays the minimum possible(which I think is about 2.50-3.50 american an hour here in the US.) and tips are supposed to suppliment this.

There some places where only the management team is paid well, and the way other employees get livable income in they pool all the tips at the end of the night and split it up.

So no, they are not paid to do their jobs because they are barely paid at all. You are a horrible person for not being generous and I hope you burn for it. (I worked in a place for two years that we were only paid 3.75 for an hour and relied solely on tips for any sort of livable income.)

I myself tip between 10 and 20 percent. Normally it's 20 however if the service is terrible, I will cut my tip in half. I've also been known to increase tip sizes when others whom were responsible to tip barely even place down five percent.

Where I am from serving staff are not treated as slaves. There is a national minimum wage and companies have to stick to it. I might consider tipping if whoever is serving me goes above and beyond what they are already paid for, but with the extortionate prices most eating establishments charge that is unlikely.

Yeah, there's a national minimum here as well. But there's two of them, one for normal businesses and companies, another for ones where there is a chance the people will get tipped. The tip one is much lower, however the minimum wage for normal companies is still so low that unless you live in a shack and eat porridge day after day for sustenance, you can't live off of it.

My understanding is that if the employees in question do not make up the rest of the minimum wage with tips, then the employers have to make up the difference. I'm not sure if that is correct, just something I heard somewhere.

 

[matsugawa]

In terms of cash, I typically try to tip around 20% (I just find the math a little easier than 15% for some reason), especially if it's a place I don't go to that often.
Usually, though, if the tip is a blank line on a receipt (like when you pay with a credit card) I'll tip up to the nearest multiple of five. So, if the balance is something like 32.15, I'll set the tip at 2.85. I know it sounds a little unfair (I mean, that's only about 8%), but that's often for places that I go to or order from frequently.

 

[GLo Jones]

I (living in UK) don't tip unless I feel they've gone way beyond the required service. I'm not gonna reward people for shit they're suppose to do.

But the US is an odd place, I can't think of many other countries where the staff are expected to get most of their earnings from donations.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I do not tip. I am not giving someone more money for something that they are already paid to do.

you do understand that most of these people are not paid well. In fact, the majority of food industry workers(some chefs included) have their tips factored in as their actual wages. So the employer just pays the minimum possible(which I think is about 2.50-3.50 american an hour here in the US.) and tips are supposed to suppliment this.

There some places where only the management team is paid well, and the way other employees get livable income in they pool all the tips at the end of the night and split it up.

So no, they are not paid to do their jobs because they are barely paid at all. You are a horrible person for not being generous and I hope you burn for it. (I worked in a place for two years that we were only paid 3.75 for an hour and relied solely on tips for any sort of livable income.)

I myself tip between 10 and 20 percent. Normally it's 20 however if the service is terrible, I will cut my tip in half. I've also been known to increase tip sizes when others whom were responsible to tip barely even place down five percent.

Where I am from serving staff are not treated as slaves. There is a national minimum wage and companies have to stick to it. I might consider tipping if whoever is serving me goes above and beyond what they are already paid for, but with the extortionate prices most eating establishments charge that is unlikely.

Yeah, there's a national minimum here as well. But there's two of them, one for normal businesses and companies, another for ones where there is a chance the people will get tipped. The tip one is much lower, however the minimum wage for normal companies is still so low that unless you live in a shack and eat porridge day after day for sustenance, you can't live off of it.

And frankly that's frog shit. In Australia, tipping is a rather foreign concept as a rule since our minimum wage laws as a rule don't allow for things like tips to lower it as far as I am aware. Some places keep a coin bowl/jar at the counter and they use that for the Christmas booze up, something most Aussies are happy to tip in a buck or two for but we don't rely on tips to balance our wages.

Frankly your various trades and service staff unions should campaign to have that rule consigned to Siberia and make the minimum wage standardised across industries. Then tipping truly becomes performance based.

 

[zane224]

People who work in jobs where tipping is expected can be paid less. The minimum wage in the US is currently $7.25/hr. In a job where Tips are received the employer is allowed to pay as little as $2.13/hr.

"If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. "

That still only adds back up to minimum wage that the employer HAS to pay them, so what the server makes is still extremely dependant on what people leave for tips.

Think of the way you treat the waiter, or the conditions the delivery guy had to drive through. If you wouldnt do that for minimum wage, then tip better.

Personally, I do a mental version of the bit from 3rd rock from the sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ZZWhSvOMI

Source:
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

 

[int boom]

I work in a warehouse. I don't get a tip every time I stack a box.