How Has Tipping Personally Affected You?

[TwiceOver]

It doesn't. I don't understand the point of your thread.

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[KMFJD]

I have to listen to how overpaid FOH staff are "only" making 2-3x as much money as the hard working dudes in the back who actually make the delicious food I eat.

 

[JSt0rm]

No server is crying about lost revenue from lack of tippers to guests in a restaurant. He must be searching the internet for it or something. And then the question becomes why have a fascination with servers complaining about not getting tipped online?

 

[Jaepheth]

I don't thoroughly read tipping threads, but I do occasionally skim them.

Taken all together tipping has indirectly cost me probably a few hours of my life.

 

[BoomerD]

So we went to dinner Saturday. The wife puts the meal on the visa and I drop a $20 on the table. She says that's too much, picks up the $20 and puts down $15. I give her a look because I wanted to leave $20 so I take $5 out of my wallet and drop it on the $15. She picks up the now $20 (all 5's) tip and puts back down my original $20.

WTH? I'm now out $25. She smiles and asks if I want to play again? So, basically, I was affected out of my $$:$

THANKS! I wondered where she got the extra $5. I let her buy me a beer with it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

So tipping is good for your brain.

Maybe before I got a smartphone with a tipping app. Now I feel dumber overall.

 

[highland145]

Sorry, all matters between you and your wife you'll have to take up with your marriage counselor/therapist (man, there's another profession I'm sure ATOT would do away with too).

She is a licensed counselor so she'd just side with herself anyway.

 

[highland145]

THANKS! I wondered where she got the extra $5. I let her buy me a beer with it.

As long as it's not a canoe beer.D:

 

[JSt0rm]

She is a licensed counselor so she'd just side with herself anyway.

I dont think any women needs to be a licensed counselor to side with themselves. ()

 

[highland145]

I dont think any women needs to be a licensed counselor to side with themselves. ()

Or a group of them to take the same side.

 

[BoomerD]

Yeah...when you argue with a woman...you're always wrong...even when you're right.

 

[LevelSea]

Tipping didn't bother me until I visited Asia. If a server does a shit job they get fired and disgrace their ancestors, here they still expect 20%.

 

[Ns1]

Tipping didn't bother me until I visited Asia. If a server does a shit job they get fired and disgrace their ancestors, here they still expect 20%.

:thumbsup:

 

[LevelSea]

:thumbsup:

I had guy from 7-11 chase me down the street to return 23 yen I left on the counter. Employees at McDonald's put my luggage beside the counter so I could have more room while I ate. There is nothing more depressing than spending a few weeks in Asia, then flying into Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

 

[Midwayman]

Tipping has made me have to listen to people complain that bringing me food and drink from the kitchen to my table is somehow equivilant to having a PHD in food service.

 

[JSt0rm]

I highly doubt you guys are eating at any restaurant where you can actually appreciate good service. Especially when you eat at places where the drinks come from the kitchen

 

[LevelSea]

I highly doubt you guys are eating at any restaurant where you can actually appreciate good service. Especially when you eat at places where the drinks come from the kitchen

Why should the location of where the drinks come from have any bearing on the quality of service? Shouldn't we expect good service from, I don't know, the fucking service industry?

 

[1sikbITCH]

Someone decides to put down a 20% tip for his/her bill. Someone decides to not put any tip down. Someone decides to tip the waitress at some dive restaurant $50,000.

How does this affect you?

Now, if you are a tipped employee, you obviously are affected - but, we are not talking about your job. We are talking about how someone else's tipping (what they do with their money) affects you.

For me: nada, no effect whatsoever - it's their money, let them do what they wish with it.

Ever heard the term "train your bartender"? They expect tips. Bigger the tip the better the service. If you decide not to tip expect consequences.

 

[JSt0rm]

Why should the location of where the drinks come from have any bearing on the quality of service? Shouldn't we expect good service from, I don't know, the fucking service industry?

Sure. you should. But there is a difference between places. By your logic everything should cost the same as the golden corral. Shouldn't you expect food from a restaurant?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Why should the location of where the drinks come from have any bearing on the quality of service? Shouldn't we expect good service from, I don't know, the fucking service industry?

I don't really expect great service from a place like Olive Garbage. I expect they would be familiar with the menu and bring me the food that I ordered in a timely manner and not overcharge me but beyond that... there really isn't much expectation there. It's about the same level of expectation I have for McDonalds.

Which is why I generally don't eat at places like that. :sneaky:

 

[Ns1]

I have eaten many great things in my life - I have never said "goddamn that shit was so good, I'm going to give the chef 20% because that meal changed my life"

yet servers want 20% for bringing me a check, refilling my water, and telling me the specials for the night. GFY. You don't even bring the food out to the table, your goddamn food runner does that for you. You don't even have to know shit about wine, your sommelier does that for you. Finally, you don't even clear the tables, your fucking busser does that for you.

In conclusion, do your fucking job and stop bitching - my cup is empty and I need a refill.

 

[LevelSea]

Sure. you should. But there is a difference between places. By your logic everything should cost the same as the golden corral. Shouldn't you expect food from a restaurant?

No. I expect employees to do their best regardless of where they work, not bust a nut in your food because you didn't tip them 20%. Is it some kind of American exceptionalism? Are Americans servers really that much better than everyone else in the first world?

 

[brianmanahan]

i have wasted literally tens of dollars during my lifetime on the primitive practice of tipping

 

[brianmanahan]

Sure. you should. But there is a difference between places. By your logic everything should cost the same as the golden corral. Shouldn't you expect food from a restaurant?

but the golden corral is expensive, it's like 13$ to eat there