YATT: some restaurants suggestiing 30% tips

[Rakewell]

LOL

$6 on a $20 bill?

 

[SandEagle]

There you go again.
Its not the governments job to fix every stupid little thing you dont like, especially when you have plenty of options.

1. dont go there. Its a private business and you are a free citizen.

2. Patron them but dont bend over for their bullshit. Vote with your dollars, let them see.

3. Some halfway combo of the previous two options.

4. whine on internet (least effective solution)

The Fair Labor Standards Act "forbids businesses to pool and share tips among their entire staff"

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[slag]

i start at 20% and go up or down. i will leave a penny if they fucking suck and tell the manager that.

$1 a drink is insane. i don't do it every time either. no way do you deserve a $1 just for pulling a beer out of the tap.


the idea that waitress's deserve %30 is insane.

You're screwing the curve for the rest of us. Industry standard is 15%. Stop with the 20% bullshit and go back to industry standard. It's people like you who do an extra 5%, then others do 5% more, before you know it, tipping will be 50% + or - depending on service.

 

[torpid]

I've given 30% or more only in very rare circumstances where the service warranted it.

 

[dr150]

You're screwing the curve for the rest of us. Industry standard is 15%. Stop with the 20% bullshit and go back to industry standard. It's people like you who do an extra 5%, then others do 5% more, before you know it, tipping will be 50% + or - depending on service.

QFMFT

All you 20%ers on this thread are escalating the norm. 20% ONLY for exceptional service.

 

[OverVolt]

I tip like $3-5 minimum. Usually my bills are fairly small so if they wait my table for like an hour and the bill is only $20 its only fair to tip like $5 since they make almost nothing.

Once it hits about $40 bill I tip 15% always. So it depends where you go. I feel like being nice when I go to Denny's & other diners, they probably get stiffed alot anyway, or like $2 tips on $20 bill for a table that was there 1.5 hours.

 

[diesbudt]

I normally do between 15-20% depending. Though once in a great while I go extreme if the service was way above and beyond.

Out drinking with a few buddies at a sports bar. Waiter kept us served well, and one buddy was going for $150 bill of alcohol, and he was in and out all the time serving us. Add in that when he wasn't sometimes he stopped by to actually just chat as we were his last table for the day. Made some jokes, and helped me prank a friend by ordering him an Appletini and saying it came from a guy at the bar.

My bill was $47. I tipped him $53. 113% tip. lol.

 

[piasabird]

Just tip whatever you want. This is just a bunch of communist propaganda so the restraunt owners will not feel bad for making the servers work for slave labor rates.

 

[slag]

I tip like $3-5 minimum. Usually my bills are fairly small so if they wait my table for like an hour and the bill is only $20 its only fair to tip like $5 since they make almost nothing.

It's their choice they have a low paying shitty job. There are tons of manual labor stupid jobs out there such as loading trucks at distribution centers, working for UPS, etc. You don't owe them anything more than the 15%.

 

[PingSpike]

You're screwing the curve for the rest of us. Industry standard is 15%. Stop with the 20% bullshit and go back to industry standard. It's people like you who do an extra 5%, then others do 5% more, before you know it, tipping will be 50% + or - depending on service.

I'll tip however I want. I was a server once I sucked at it big time.

 

[TheNinja]

The $1 a drink is fine if I'm buying 1 drink at a time, or if they have to make a mixed drink. If you get a fancy martini or some drink that takes 4-5 ingredients or needs a blender or something...OK, $1 per drink seems OK.

If you are going to pop the top off a bottle of beer....ya, you aren't getting $1. You'll get whatever coin change is left from the paper money or $.50, whichever is less.

 

[Lonyo]

I'm going on holiday to Japan.
I was glad to read that tipping is not accepted, and can be considered offensive.

 

[God Mode]

So when can I announce that I'm a 30%+ tipper so I can hoard all the wait staffs attention and leave the cheapass 15%ers to have substandard service? :awe:

 

[Imp]

So the price of food goes up and the percentage for tip goes up... Okay there.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

If Im at a bar and I plan on staying there for a while, Ill give the bartender $10-20 before he/she makes my first drink and grab his/her name and make sure I come back to them only. I wont tip for the rest of my drinks but Ill throw in another $10/20 at the end of the night when I close my tab. Almost every single time I do this I get free drinks and/or extra strong drinks. In the end I actually save money rather than tipping $3-5 a round and end up having to order more rounds to get drunk.

For food, its typically 15% unless they are exceptional or nice and they'll get more. If they are shitty enough to piss me off, they get nothing.

 

[Ben90]

I only tip because I know that if I dont, the waiter doesnt get paid a cent. If waiters were paid decently, I would tip for exceptional service.

They still will always make minimum wage. Seems fair for a minimum wage type job.

 

[torpid]

They still will always make minimum wage. Seems fair for a minimum wage type job.

They will not always make minimum wage. There is a law that requires the employer to make up wages to minimum wage level if the server does not receive enough tips, but it is very rare for that to happen in practice. Most servers are not aware of the law, and I would guess that many business owners aren't aware of it either. In any case, you are forcing the employee to put him or herself in an awkward situation if they have to demand these wages.

 

[DrPizza]

LOL

$6 on a $20 bill?

For dinner, most of the time it's an automatic $5 tip, because the bill is under $25. (I have a lot of awesome places to eat that are very affordable, and it seems I end up eating out at least 2 or 3 nights a week.) I wouldn't hesitate at all to pay a $6 tip on a $20 bill, if the service was really good. Why should I penalize my waitress just because she happens to work in a place where prices are more reasonable, rather than a place where identical quality food costs 3 times as much?

But, when I go to a bar where all I'm ordering is bottled beer, I've often found it ridiculous (if you stop and think about it) to think that a bartender with virtually zero skills is making $100 or more an hour in tips (if everyone tipped a dollar each time, for each drink.) I'll do a dollar most of the time, if I get drinks for myself & wife. Or maybe $1 every 3rd drink, unless the place is dead.

 

[lord_emperor]

Will you Americans please stop the tipping culture? Your customs are spilling over into other countries where food servers are paid fair wages.

 

[God Mode]

Will you Americans please stop the tipping culture? Your customs are spilling over into other countries where food servers are paid fair wages.

So how will people show others that they're richer and better than the scrubs eating the lunch special? I'm American and deserve all the attention. If I have to pay more than your sorry ass so be it. 😛

 

[lord_emperor]

So how will people show others that they're richer and better than the scrubs eating the lunch special? I'm American and deserve all the attention. If I have to pay more than your sorry ass so be it. 😛

Actually, I [am expected to] pay more because my servers' wages factor into the food price, which I [am expected to] tip based on.

 

[HeXen]

Part of me says, you should be able to tip the best that you can spare for good service because not everyone really has much money to do 20% or more considering the rising cost of...well everything.
The other part of me says, if you can't afford leave a good tip for the expected and anticipated good service, you can't fucking afford to dine out, period.
i am confused

 

[brianmanahan]

i tip %10, tops

nobody tips me 🙄

 

[zinfamous]

I give $1 per drink, but not every drink. If you're good, you'll get it for most drinks If not, only a couple drinks.

this is how I tip for drinks:

1st: $1
2nd & 3rd: $1 (total)
4th-6th: ~$0.75 (total)
7th-12th.... usually either $1, or up to $10...or just leave my card up front by mistake, and come back the next morning begging to retrieve my card.

🙁

 

[blankslate]

Raise the minimum wage to about $9 an hour which is what the minimum wage of 1968 would be today adjusted for inflation.

Then tip if you want but you don't feel pressure from the restaurants.