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YaTippingT: $7 food in 5hrs, $1.50 tip -> Feeling guilty

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
My local poolhall has free pool from 12-5 if you buy $7 worth of food/drinks.

1) i order a sandwich and water.
2) at most only 1/2 the pool tables are being used during the 5hrs i've been there

yet i feel guily of leaving a lowly $1.50 tip since i've been there for 5hrs.

Your thoughts?


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Should i feel guilty?

edit2:
If i should have left more tip, WHY?
 
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That's a hellova deal, the 3 pool halls around me charge around that much an hour and there's no food included.
 
I probably would've just left a $5 or a $10, like Anubis said. Even with that tip, you'd still be saving a boatload of money that you would've otherwise had to use renting the table.
 
JEDI said:
My local poolhall has free pool from 12-5 if you buy $7 worth of food/drinks.

1) i order a sandwich and water.
2) at most only 1/2 the pool tables are being used during the 5hrs i've been there

yet i feel guily of leaving a lowly $1.50 tip since i've been there for 5hrs.

Your thoughts?
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You really don't feel that guilty or you would have dropped the full $10, at the least.

But if you are on a really tight budget, then just eat your sandwich, play your pool and don't make a mess or bother the staff too much, and remember to say thanks on the way out. But another buck and a half isn't much to feel better about yourself.
 
Paladin3 said:
You really don't feel that guilty or you would have dropped the full $10, at the least.

But if you are on a really tight budget, then just eat your sandwich, play your pool and don't make a mess or bother the staff too much, and remember to say thanks on the way out. But another buck and a half isn't much to feel better about yourself.
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hm.. maybe the question i should be asking is should i be feeling guilty for leaving $1.50 tip?
it is over 20% tip, and the place was near dead.

Updated my OP
 
Depends on how much you like the place and how bad you want it to remain.

I bowl. And I pay for food at the snack bar even though it costs twice as much as it should. I don't mind. because without such high prices, I will not have a place to bowl.
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
Depends on how much you like the place and how bad you want it to remain.

I bowl. And I pay for food at the snack bar even though it costs twice as much as it should. I don't mind. because without such high prices, I will not have a place to bowl.
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what does tipping have to do w/the place staying open? it says $7 min and i meet that.
 
You should tip for services rendered by the tipped employees.

In other words, if you got your sandwich and soda and didn't say three words to the waitstaff for the rest of the afternoon, why should you tip them?

But if they spent the next 5 hours refilling your glass of water and bottomless breadstick basket every 20 minutes, then you should probably have thrown a few extra bucks their way.

It's a sliding scale, just put yourself in the other person's shoes and tip what you'd expect. Chances are it'll be more than the server is expecting.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
You should tip for services rendered by the tipped employees.

In other words, if you got your sandwich and soda and didn't say three words to the waitstaff for the rest of the afternoon, why should you tip them?

But if they spent the next 5 hours refilling your glass of water and bottomless breadstick basket every 20 minutes, then you should probably have thrown a few extra bucks their way.
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i would agree with this 100%
 
I always agree with other people tipping more so I don't have to. I mean, wait staff have families to feed too you know!
 
HAL9000 said:
No you definitely shouldn't, it's not up to you to pay their wages. Tipping isn't compulsory.
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It IS up to you to pay their wages, in a sense. Most waiters/waitresses work for much less than minimum wage with the expectation that tips earned will give them a livable income. If you don't like that go through a drive-through or get your food yourself.
 
Let me guess. Your sandwich before sales tax was $7?

In this case, it has nothing to do with the tip amount. It's about doing what's right.

Clearly, this place is using this as a draw to get people in to buy food and drink instead of paying for table rental.

Either you're a cheap bastard or can't afford to be there.

/this is NOT a tipping thread

edit: To answer the question, you shouldn't have tipped more, but instead bought more than a sandwich for your five hour stay.
 
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I can agree with cherrytwist, I don't know how you went 5 hours ordering nothing else, but as far as the tip part you left a fair amount...personally I usually leave no less than $3 for any meal...but that is my perogative.
 
JEDI said:
yet i feel guily of leaving a lowly $1.50 tip since i've been there for 5hrs.
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You should feel guilty, $1.50 is an insult.

I like to pay at least minimum wage - because a lot of restaurants do not even pay that to their employees.

1 hour $6 - $10

If you were there for 5 hours, I say you should have left at least a $30 tip.
 
if it's a place that you frequent often, I'd have left a bigger tip. especially when it's dead, your server is a lot more likely to remember you and perhaps provide better service in the future.

I tend to tip extra well at my local establishments that I go to all the time, and I've often found that over time, it pays off with better seating and better/quicker service.

otherwise, fuck it.
 
Texashiker said:
You should feel guilty, $1.50 is an insult.

I like to pay at least minimum wage - because a lot of restaurants do not even pay that to their employees.

1 hour $6 - $10

If you were there for 5 hours, I say you should have left at least a $30 tip.
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Except tipping the server is not helping the restaurant which is what they are trying to do by opening up free pool.
 
Texashiker said:
Screw the restaurant owner, most do not even pay minimum wage.

And yes, you are helping the restaurant owner, your helping pay the wages of their employee, that should make anyone happy.
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Hmm there is a reason for that and one that the waitstaff usually wants.

You pay me $2-3/hr I keep my tips, rather than you pay me minimum wage or better and I turn in my tips and have you divide them out.
 
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