Poll: How much do you tip ?

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Ushario

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In Australia tipping is very rare, you might tip a bartender at a function who provided good service for yourself and friends, or a waiter/ess at the most classy restaurants.

We have decent* minimun wage here, and definatley nothing like $2.50 US an hour for pay, I wouldn't have worked for that when I was 12.

*decent being by comparison.
 
mattaui

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Tips are assumed in the United States as part of a worker's hourly pay, thus they're getting paid less than a non-waitstaff would be. So, for those of you who 'don't believe in tipping', you're just cheating someone out of what they're supposed to be paid.

That being said, the amount you tip can vary with service, and that's part of the reason for the entire function of tipping. If a waiter is lousy, he'll get less or no tips, and he'll quit being a waiter (usually), or even if he doesn't, the boss can see that Bob's not getting much in tips, so either needs retraining or firing. On the other hand, a good waiter will be rewarded for good service, above and beyond the accepted 15%, and he'll want to keep doing his job as long as it suits him.

I'll tip even 10% for bad service as long as it wasn't intentionally rude service - that will get you nothing.
 
Kaymish

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for me it has to be extraordinarily good service to tip anything but then again tipping is not something we do in our country since wait staff are paid a decent wage

i hated going to America all the staff Expected a big tip for anything even something that the worst waiter would do as a result they found me tipping nothing and in turn get miffed at me

to me tipping is a reward for ultra good service as an incentive otherwise people come to expect it and it pisses off the people who do not tip in their culture
 
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My wife worked as a waitress for years, tips made or broke her evening.
We pay depending on the service usually between 15-20%
 
Horizontalvertigo

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Tip the cute girl working at cold rock? Yea definately give her some of my spare coin-age. All frikken 30 cents of it. Christ that stuff is waaaaaaay over priced for what it is; she made a damn good thick-shake though hahahaha. and if it matters I'm an Aussy (damn proud too)
 
TyeDye75

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Tipping is such a weird american institution. Employers pay staff peanuts and then guilt trip their customers into paying them the extra.
 
Garzo

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Just looked up the minimum wage rates in America. I can see why tipping is a must there because that is rubbish.
 
JokerGrin

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I have no set amount, it just depends how much I like the person.

I tip everyone though. Taxi drivers, hairdressers, takeaway delivery drivers, the cloakroom person in the nightclub etc. It's nice to help out people that are doing their best.

Last Saturday my taxi charge was £15, I gave him £18. Is that 20%? I'm exhausted so can't be bothered checking, but that's about normal.
 
Paksenarrion

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I don't gamble, but I do go to restaurants with my family. I usually try to tip double the amount of the tax. I can understand that people who do gamble will tip you $100 for a free bottle of water if they won, since they're feeling incredibly generous. But for the most part, it's like the case with people not tipping for a $300 tab: lack of money. It's not that they mean to be rude (who does mean to be rude?), it's just a sign of the times.
 
SenseOfTumour

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I tend to tip 15-20% because I've been in the service industry and too many people seem to forget you're even human, the fuckers. I'm also always trying to be nice to them unless they're obviously obnoxious.

Where I go the opposite of most is I'm damned if I'll tip a female more because she's attractive, she already got lucky genetically, I don't need to massage her ego any more.

Bitter much? Really tho, I'd rather base it on actions, not just gene pool lottery luck.
 
catalyst8

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It depends on a number of things. But specifically for restaurants:

If I get good service I'll tip double the odds (in Great Britain the standard is 10%, in Europe it tends to be 10-15%) unless there's a service charge already added to the bill, in which case I don't tip at all. In the US it's just weird. I know that some U.S. waiters get under the minimum wage, which apparently isn't illegal in some states, so 15% for unremarkable & 30% for good, & whatever I think for exceptional. I once saw an Alpine waiter chase after a tourist who'd forgotten their wallet, & the miserable bastard just grabbed it without even saying 'thank you', so I left a significant tip to brighten his day.

If I get poor service then obviously nothing. On those occasions where it's been pre-emptively added to the bill I'll cross it out. That got me in trouble in Greece a few years ago, since apparently they can legally charge for decent service even if you don't get it.
 
Good morning blues

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If the service was shitty, it's 10%, if the service was good, it's 15-20%, if it was great, it's 20+%, if it was awful, there's no tip, although that's only happened a couple of times. If I'm ordering from a bar, it's usually $1 per drink, and $1-2 for a pitcher, depending on how much the pitcher is.

catalyst8 said:
If I get poor service then obviously nothing. On those occasions where it's been pre-emptively added to the bill I'll cross it out. That got me in trouble in Greece a few years ago, since apparently they can legally charge for decent service even if you don't get it.
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If they're charging you a gratuity, somebody has almost certainly agreed to have that added on - maybe whoever made the rezzos was told, maybe it says on the menu or on a sign somewhere that groups over a certain size are charged a grat. If you have a huge problem with it, you talk to them and get them to remove it. If they've charged a grat and you just haven't paid, that's worse than not tipping, that's straight-up ripping the place off.
 
runtheplacered

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Anonymouse said:
I don't believe in tipping. You get paid to do your job. Why should I give you extra for pouring a fucking drink that you have over charged me for anyway?
Same with waitresses. So you screwed up your life and could not get a better job so carry plates for a living to support your 5 bastard offspring. Not my problem.
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What in the hell are you babbling about? Seriously, that was just... stupid. Very awful, disgusting stereotyping.

By the way, they don't really get "paid to do their job". Their pay comes from you, the customer. You don't want to tip? Then the price of your food is going to skyrocket. It's one or the other. Here, they've chosen that you're allowed to choose what you want to tip, giving the waiter/bartender incentive to please you, leaving you very pleased. I can tell you haven't thought this through very hard.
 
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