Poll: Poll: Waiter's Rant-Tipping

[Slayer_2]

First off, doesn't your country have a minimum wage? Two bucks an hour is terrible. I tip 15-20% depending on the service. When the waiter acts snooty, like I'm a lesser human being because I'm under 20 or not wearing a 3-piece suit, then I will likely tip less.

However, I think tipping is a stupid practice. A flat rate is better and an OPTIONAL tip with no obligations should be allowed. A lower tip percentage too. I have no problem with 20%, but this just encourages money-grabbing corporations to milk the cash cow. Also, some places have a "tip" added to the bill, which isn't even tipping anymore. Just another sign of how the tipping system needs to be thought out better.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

I've always gone by the conventional 15%, 20% or more if the service is good.

If you don't have money for a tip, you probably shouldn't be eating there in the first place. On the other hand, Mr. Pink would debate that point.

Oh, and I'm not paying a cent on the tip if I never once see my waiter after I get my food until my check arrives.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

At a place where I worked, I got like maybe $6/week(canadian), but the girls workin raked in the money like nothing else... if you're a guy it's a really bad profession to get into... I suggest getting a different job.


and the reason people don't tip construction workers is they usualy get payed ALOT more than other people and don't hafta put up with irritating strangers and smile all the goddamn time and be pleasant when they feel like shit. they just gotta work and get payed.

anyone who refuses to tip has either never worked serving customers before or is a jerk period.

I always tip generously, 20% or more if i can afford it.

 

[Gaderael]

Usually I'll leave three bucks or something, as going to a place where we are waited on is pretty cash strapping as it is (but hey, you have to get out of the house sometimes, and the missus likes it). There have been times I've given more, like ten or twenty bucks, when I can afford to do so.

But if a waiter is shit, and the food sucks, I don't leave a tip. I get really sick of people who are wait staff talk about how it's expected no matter the service. It's not, you get tipped based on how well you do your job. If you make me happy, which is pretty easy, I'll leave you a tip.

There was one time I went to a place with the missus, and the fish I had ordered was still completely raw in the middle, and cold. She was pretty upset when I called her over and told, she got the manager and they comped my meal, so I left the cost of the meal as a tip for her, as she was so very nice and helpful.

 

[CNKFan]

I have always been taught to leave 15% at least.

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

I'm a waitress and get paid pretty well. Like 15 bucks(aus) an hour, plus extra on sundays, after midnight, and public holidays. that said, i usually only make about 5 bucks in tips a shift..

 

[Doctor_Insano]

i tip if the service was acceptable, i tip well if the service was good or better, if u r busy and i can see that, i tip with consideration, buy if you screw me over, my tip is a penny, or nothing at all, ive only ever done that once, but the service was awful, i was going to tip a penny, but even paying was a pain and took too long, so i just left, her total tip was probably .35 cents, no one at the table tipped. but that's what she deserved. i tip higher than the rest of my family and freinds, but like it has been said: we arent all made of money, so i tip when i can afford it, remember: if a man driving a benz tips you a little bit" it might as well be saying "fuck you" but if someone who looks homeless tips you a few dollars, chances are thats all they had... remember that

 

[MiserableOldGit]

In the UK tippings an optional, not really expected sort of thing. Then again, we insist on people being payed at least enough by their employer to survive, rather than having a system where you pay some prick in charge for a service, then pay their staff for them on top of that. For a country that proclaims to be so rabidly capitalist, America looks a lot like an 18th century oligarchy at lot of the time.

 

[Mstrswrd]

Always 15% minimum, or, of you go their often and you know the server, than 20%.

 

[PhiMed]

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Do whatever you want. That's what you're going to do anyway.

 

[SilverApple]

We as waiters generally do not control how the food is prepared and how it tastes. If there is a problem with the food let us know and we will fix it, or get you something new as soon as possible. Yes it sucks when your food is overcooked/undercooked, but in most resteraunts waiters don't control that.

How are the chefs paid?

 

[Nickolai77]

In the UK tippings an optional, not really expected sort of thing. Then again, we insist on people being payed at least enough by their employer to survive, rather than having a system where you pay some prick in charge for a service, then pay their staff for them on top of that. For a country that proclaims to be so rabidly capitalist, America looks a lot like an 18th century oligarchy at lot of the time.

Good point. My thoughts are that Britain, as well as most of Europe has had it's fair share of poverty, i mean just look at Victorian England. I think this has bred a sense of fairness and social justice in Europe which America, which benefited so well in a capitalist system, had had paranoid hatred of communism, does not have.

 

[AkJay]

I normally tip 15%, but if I have a good waiter/waitress, or the meal was cheap, I'll tip them a little extra.

 

[Nicragomi]

I'm usually a hard-ass about tips.

I put about 5% or 8% of what the bill was on the table, and I tell the waiter/waitress that every time I have unfilled glass or if a plate isn't taken off the table fast enough, they lose a dollar of that tip. Usually works pretty well.

 

[cathou]

i always goes between 15 and 20%, or 1$ per drink if i'm in a bar.

i was barmaid a few years ago, and the way it work in quebec (and probably in other province too, but i honestly dont know if it's the case), you get paid minimum wage for worker with tips (which is usually 2.5$ less poer hour than regular minimum wage). and you get your tip, minus 5% that we gave to buss boys and hosts. then, at the end of the year, you have to do your taxes. But what you must declare in taxes is not just your base pay. You must add 8% of your sales in tip revenu. and you pay your taxes based on that revenu.

So when people dont tip you, you actually lost money...