alkemyst
No Lifer
- Feb 13, 2001
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I don't know why these posts always come up other than to troll.
It's not rocket science. In the US, 15% is customary for food service. This doesn't mean anything extraordinary. They bring your food and get your drinks. If it's prepared incorrectly have the server get the manager for you if the kitchen can't get it right. It's not the server's fault.
I tend to tip more than 15% and much more if the service is really good. The sad part is too many think servers are rolling in dough so they short them thinking 'the other guy' got them.
I remember back in the food delivery days in high school. I worked for a private chinese food place. We'd average $2 in tips per order plus the quarter to fifty cents per delivery the restaurant paid us (on top of $3.50/hr).
Dominoes guys were paid about double our hourly but only averaged out fifty cents to a buck per order...even though they'd take nearly double the deliveries we did, they'd net out terribly by the end of the night compared to us.
I may have taken 30-40 orders on a busy night and cleared $100. However, it's not like I was making $100 every night. Like any food server, usually 3-4 nights are dead a week and you are just there waiting around.
What would really suck is getting the guy that ordered $100+ in food, insist you carry it all in and help set it up and then hold you around while he checked if everything was right. Customer service and all, we did it. However, nothing would suck worse than him coming back with a buck or telling you to keep the change on something like $119.20 and giving you $120.
Fortunately our boss (the owner) would black list such people. He'd put a note in the system and if they ordered again would have the phone person hand over the call. It was probably borderline extortion looking back at it, but he'd insist on getting food + tip covered up front for us.
Most of the time they'd play the "OMG! I can't believe I did that, I really wasn't thinking and didn't mean to stiff them".
It's not rocket science. In the US, 15% is customary for food service. This doesn't mean anything extraordinary. They bring your food and get your drinks. If it's prepared incorrectly have the server get the manager for you if the kitchen can't get it right. It's not the server's fault.
I tend to tip more than 15% and much more if the service is really good. The sad part is too many think servers are rolling in dough so they short them thinking 'the other guy' got them.
I remember back in the food delivery days in high school. I worked for a private chinese food place. We'd average $2 in tips per order plus the quarter to fifty cents per delivery the restaurant paid us (on top of $3.50/hr).
Dominoes guys were paid about double our hourly but only averaged out fifty cents to a buck per order...even though they'd take nearly double the deliveries we did, they'd net out terribly by the end of the night compared to us.
I may have taken 30-40 orders on a busy night and cleared $100. However, it's not like I was making $100 every night. Like any food server, usually 3-4 nights are dead a week and you are just there waiting around.
What would really suck is getting the guy that ordered $100+ in food, insist you carry it all in and help set it up and then hold you around while he checked if everything was right. Customer service and all, we did it. However, nothing would suck worse than him coming back with a buck or telling you to keep the change on something like $119.20 and giving you $120.
Fortunately our boss (the owner) would black list such people. He'd put a note in the system and if they ordered again would have the phone person hand over the call. It was probably borderline extortion looking back at it, but he'd insist on getting food + tip covered up front for us.
Most of the time they'd play the "OMG! I can't believe I did that, I really wasn't thinking and didn't mean to stiff them".
