This is ridiculous. It's a tip. If it were charity, they'd be on the street with a "Stranded and Homeless" sign. Tip for service, not because you feel sorry that they don't get paid enough.
Way to come down on Nik for understanding the difference between a tip and a handout. I applaud your collective self-righteous "we tip because we're not cheapskate assholes like him" attitude.
Way to come down on Nik for understanding the difference between a tip and a handout. I applaud your collective self-righteous "we tip because we're not cheapskate assholes like him" attitude.
So i can read you tripping over your words again? Ill pass, your just trying to get a rise outta people.
You're just bitter cause you dated a waitress for a week and she dumped your dumbass.
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I can imagine a few potential situations:
a) Waiter gives Nik, who is choking on an oversize chunk of pork chop, the Heimlich maneuver. Tip = 10%.
b) Sexy female waitress gives Nik "the eye." Tip = 15%.
c) Sexy female waitress gives Nik a happy ending. Tip = 18%.
The only thing your beating tonight is your meat, since your bitch of an ex girlfriend left you.
If the restaurant can't afford to pay the waitress enough so she doesn't have to rely on tips, they need to raise the food prices so they can increase wages for their service crew. It's the company's job to pay its employees. It's the customer's job to pay the company. Any additional cash provided to the waiter/waitress in the form of a tip is purely appreciative of the service, and therefore purely optional. To say otherwise defeats the whole purpose behind tipping.
Since this thread just doesn't seem to quite have enough conflict already, how about the person who made your food? Do you tip them?
Because in most restaurants, the cook gets nothing extra for putting a lot of work into making sure your meal is perfect. This sucks for the cooks. You can argue that doing better will get them raises, but that only works to a certain extent and only if your manager happens to notice.
Where I work, we have a 100% shared tipping system. All tips go into a deposit box, and every two weeks it's split 50% waitstaff, 40% cooks, 10% dishwashers, based on the hours worked. Anytime you do something completely on your own (for example, in our drive thru, which generally consists of one person taking orders, cooking them, and packing them up) you keep any tips given to you.
It averages out to an extra $1.25-2.50 per hour, which is nothing to complain about. I'm surprised more places don't do this, but then most places pay $3.45 an hour for the waitstaff. We start people above minimum, and many of these are high school kids working at their first job.
If I eat somewhere and the food is exceptional, I'll sometimes ask to see the guy who made it and give him something, too. They hardly get recognition for their efforts.
Anyway, go back to your flaming Nik now.
Because in most restaurants, the cook gets nothing extra for putting a lot of work into making sure your meal is perfect. This sucks for the cooks. You can argue that doing better will get them raises, but that only works to a certain extent and only if your manager happens to notice.
Where I work, we have a 100% shared tipping system. All tips go into a deposit box, and every two weeks it's split 50% waitstaff, 40% cooks, 10% dishwashers, based on the hours worked. Anytime you do something completely on your own (for example, in our drive thru, which generally consists of one person taking orders, cooking them, and packing them up) you keep any tips given to you.
It averages out to an extra $1.25-2.50 per hour, which is nothing to complain about. I'm surprised more places don't do this, but then most places pay $3.45 an hour for the waitstaff. We start people above minimum, and many of these are high school kids working at their first job.
If I eat somewhere and the food is exceptional, I'll sometimes ask to see the guy who made it and give him something, too. They hardly get recognition for their efforts.
Anyway, go back to your flaming Nik now.
Originally posted by: Nik
Did I go above and beyond my job description?
It doesn't matter. If I don't think you get paid enough and I don't want to look like a cheapskate, you're clearly getting a tip.
Originally posted by: xirtam
Originally posted by: Nik
Did I go above and beyond my job description?
It doesn't matter. If I don't think you get paid enough and I don't want to look like a cheapskate, you're clearly getting a tip.
He probably isn't a waiter because he doesn't want to get stuck potentially making $2.15 per hour. Can't say that I blame him.
...Where is $2.15 legal? The minimum wage here is $3.45/hour, and our cost of living is substantially lower than most of the country.
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