How Has Tipping Personally Affected You?

[chin311]

Places like Chili's and Applebee's should just have an iPad at the table and runners to get the food that we don't have to tip because most of their servers do nothing to add to the experience.

THIS would be ideal in most restaurants in my eyes, let me place my drink order / food order / pay my bill on my time, you just bring it out. Almost every time I visit a chain establishment it consists of below average to plain bad service, slowwww as mollasses getting orders, refills, you name it, they suck at it.

If the service sucks, I don't go back. Ruins the whole experience for me.

 

[Zorba]

Anyone can do it well enough to keep their job. What's the incentive to go above and beyond while being extra friendly? What's their incentive to do better than another server or to take on as many as they can handle?

The vast majority of waiters are average at best. There are some people that are good employees and some people that are bad employees. There are very few people in the world that truly pull themselves over their natural state, just because of a individual small carrot on the other side. Especially since tips are almost guaranteed.

 

[Zorba]

This may come as a shock to you, but many in those other jobs also only try to do good enough that they won't get fired. Tipping evolved so that the service industry does not suffer this same apathy.

Tipping evolved so businesses didn't have to pay their employees a decent wage. And because America is a charitable place, people decided it was okay to pay the employees themselves.

 

[LevelSea]

This may come as a shock to you, but many in those other jobs also only try to do good enough that they won't get fired. Tipping evolved so that the service industry does not suffer this same apathy.

I guess we'll have to concede that tipping is a result of American laziness.

 

[Ns1]

This may come as a shock to you, but many in those other jobs also only try to do good enough that they won't get fired. Tipping evolved so that the service industry does not suffer this same apathy.

Somehow it works for the rest of the world, and they provide better service. Maybe we should bring more of them over on H-1B visas to replace these entitled ass american servers who are incapable of doing anything better than "just good enough".