do you tip pre or post tax?

[npoe1]

I tip pre-tax; I don't really see a point on tipping after tax because you tip for what you do consume and it?s no related to taxes.

 

[mrkun]

Originally posted by: ja1484
Post tax, man. These poor fuckers waiting tables don't even have to be paid minimum wage.

In California they do.

 

[nageov3t]

post, but I've never run up enough of a bill where it's actually matters. usually just round up, tip 20% of the rounded amount, and round the 20% up to the nearest 5 or 0.

 

[Sasiki]

I'll usually just kind of double the tax, but never give less than 4 bucks. If we go eat mexican food on buy 1 get 1 free night, the bill is only 12 bucks, but I still throw $4 down.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

I largely ignore the price, so your poll choices frigging suck (seriously, learn to construct a frigging poll).

 

[LilPima]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Food:

Fuck food. Who just goes out and eats food? I only eat at non-franchised, locally owned places and I almost always get a beer or three when I go out to dinner. I tip 20% of the final bill unless you've really done something to make me mad, which is almost never. I rarely ever get upset with people in any service industry. I'm only there for an hour and they have to be there 40 hours a week. Most of the time they are doing the best they can't to provide fast, accurate service. On top of the 20% they normally get I give them an extra $1 for every drink I have. So a 20$ meal with 2 drinks gets you 6 bucks.

Bars:

I normally only drink where I know my bartenders by name. If I don't know your name and you tell me your name without me asking I automatically like you and I tip about 40%. If I don't know you and you aren't interested in getting to know me then you get $1 dollar for every drink I have, no matter how expensive the drink is. It takes just as long to pour a jack and coke as it does to pour crown and ginger. The price has nothing to do with the bartender.


Stop being so cheap and learn to only eat and drink at places that respect your service. Then you can stop being a customer and start being a guest and get treated much better. I can't tell you how many times tipping well and getting to know your servers and bartenders ends up with free drinks and good times with the staff when they aren't working, or even when they are working.

genius award

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: effowe
Ah, tip threads, always a clusterfuck.

I usually tip 20-25% on all delivery / restaurant bills after tax. I have been a waiter and a driver for food so I am empathetic towards their needs. If there is bad service they receive 10-15%, but still, always a tip.

how'd you make out most days/nights and for how many hours?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Stop being so cheap and learn to only eat and drink at places that respect your service. Then you can stop being a customer and start being a guest and get treated much better. I can't tell you how many times tipping well and getting to know your servers and bartenders ends up with free drinks and good times with the staff when they aren't working, or even when they are working.

I go to a restaurant because I'm hungry, not because I don't have any friends and need someone to remember my name and ask me what I did over the weekend. The job of a waiter is to (a)take my order to the kitchen, and (b)bring me my food. As long as they do that, they get a decent tip. I'm not going to tip 40% just because they feign interest in me, in fact, that would kind of turn me off. I already have friends, I don't need to buy them.

Besides, in bars I tip really well and I've never once been floated a freebie, so...

Originally posted by: ja1484
Post tax, man. These poor fuckers waiting tables don't even have to be paid minimum wage.

Do you really want to screw a working single mother out of being able to buy baby formula that badly? Cough up the extra couple bucks, cheapskate. You can't take it with you.

I usually tip 20 to 25% of the total for acceptable (i.e. good enough) service. Very good service gets 30% usually. I have tipped 100% of the bill before for exceptional service, but I've only done this twice.

Varies by state. The messed-up thing is that unless you know your state's laws, you'll tip the same amount in a state where they make $2/hr as in a state where they make $8/hr.

Here in Washington they are required to pay at least minimum wage.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

$100 bill
8.25% sales tax

$8.25 tax

15% of that is like $1. Big deal? Makes a bigger deal when you're at a $500 bill, but how many times have I had to deal with those (that one time when we had a birthday dinner at some steakhouse yeahhh)

 

[funkymatt]

20% if service is acceptable. i've tipped 30% because the service was outstanding.
10% or less if service is unacceptable. one pizza delivered over an hour late= $1

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Stop being so cheap and learn to only eat and drink at places that respect your service. Then you can stop being a customer and start being a guest and get treated much better. I can't tell you how many times tipping well and getting to know your servers and bartenders ends up with free drinks and good times with the staff when they aren't working, or even when they are working.

I go to a restaurant because I'm hungry, not because I don't have any friends and need someone to remember my name and ask me what I did over the weekend. The job of a waiter is to (a)take my order to the kitchen, and (b)bring me my food. As long as they do that, they get a decent tip. I'm not going to tip 40% just because they feign interest in me, in fact, that would kind of turn me off. I already have friends, I don't need to buy them.

Besides, in bars I tip really well and I've never once been floated a freebie, so...

Originally posted by: ja1484
Post tax, man. These poor fuckers waiting tables don't even have to be paid minimum wage.

Do you really want to screw a working single mother out of being able to buy baby formula that badly? Cough up the extra couple bucks, cheapskate. You can't take it with you.

I usually tip 20 to 25% of the total for acceptable (i.e. good enough) service. Very good service gets 30% usually. I have tipped 100% of the bill before for exceptional service, but I've only done this twice.

Varies by state. The messed-up thing is that unless you know your state's laws, you'll tip the same amount in a state where they make $2/hr as in a state where they make $8/hr.

Here in Washington they are required to pay at least minimum wage.

oooh, he just said you have no friends mr. pickles.

 

[Farang]

I just make it up as a go along. Tipping by percentages is dumb, I realized I was giving somebody $10 when all they had done is take my order, bring me my plate, and serve me a drink. Plus if you don't tip 20% they're going to be pissed at you anyway. I love living in places where tipping isn't customary because then I can actually afford to eat out.

 

[GeneralDisarray]

It is quite silly when you think about it.
Delivering a $40 NY strip is no more difficult or time consuming than delivering a $20 ribeye, so why is a larger tip expected?

Originally posted by: Farang
I just make it up as a go along. Tipping by percentages is dumb, I realized I was giving somebody $10 when all they had done is take my order, bring me my plate, and serve me a drink. Plus if you don't tip 20% they're going to be pissed at you anyway. I love living in places where tipping isn't customary because then I can actually afford to eat out.

 

[Zee]

if she's hot, post 20%. if not, pre.

 

[skace]

I just give 50%.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: jagec

I go to a restaurant because I'm hungry, not because I don't have any friends and need someone to remember my name and ask me what I did over the weekend. The job of a waiter is to (a)take my order to the kitchen, and (b)bring me my food. As long as they do that, they get a decent tip. I'm not going to tip 40% just because they feign interest in me, in fact, that would kind of turn me off.

I agree with the feigning interest thing and putting on a fake smile. You can be perky but you have absolutely no real interest in strangers who just want to eat - I hope those people aren't purposely taking a waiter/waitress job just because they are perky.

I hate to say anything the chinese do is good practice but the way their waiters work is much better... you can stop any of them walking around to get you what you need. They don't smile at you but they get that sh!t for you right away, and at the end, the tips are pooled. Tip % whether it be 10,15,20% isn't even a huge deal to them. You don't have to wait for some guy to re-emerge from a smoke break or because another table or two tied up your waiter with some stupid request. And how many times have you had to wait 10 minutes just to get your check and another 10 for them to return with your credit card? WTF?! Why can't I just ask this waiter walking by?

The whole waiting tables thing for tips just turns me off... you're a servant, be glad you get paid to do a job just like everybody else so quit complaining about an extra 10% one family didn't want to give you. You want more money grab a job that requires a 4-year+ education. Just because you have the open opportunity to spit in my food doesn't mean I need to pay you what your employer should be paying you - the whole restaurant industry is fuct up.

 

[eplebnista]

Post-tax. I just usually guesstimate something close to 15% and leave an even dollar amount tip.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

final amount

 

[JulesMaximus]

I don't tip.

Get a real job if you want money to feed yourself or your family.

 

[acheron]

usually 20%ish on post-tax. take 10% of the total, double it, then adjust to make the final total a nice round number.

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
I don't tip.

Get a real job if you want money to feed yourself or your family.

DEMON!

 

[Ns1]

i tip based on what they deserve

 

[Adam8281]

Pre-tax. Why should a waitress in one state get less (or more) tip than her service-industry-sister in another state, simply because of a difference in sales tax?

 

[Injury]

Pre-tax.

I tip on the food & service, not what the government gets as a result of me dining out.

In most situations it's a matter of a few pennies, but they are my pennies and I will keep them if I feel like it.

Spare me the sob stories about how waiters and waitresses don't make much money. I tip what I'm "expected" to tip and that's that. No, I'm not a prick to wait staff, I'm not unpleasant or rude, but until I see a law requiring me to pay more I'm not going to needlessly give someone else my hard earned money.

 

[Vic]

Pre-tax, if any (there's none in Oregon).

The general custom for tipping is 10%-20%, depending on quality of service (10% poor, 15% average, 20% excellent), of the pre-tax/pre-discount (if any of either) amount.