Tipping your waitress?

[rkell87]

They should raise the minimum wage for waiters/waitresses to the national min. so that tips become extra incentive for performing their duties exceptionally.

and the price of your entree will go up significantly.

 

[Afigueroa22]

if you wanna know where to start reading, look for username springs1(or springs something, can't remember exactly)

If I had seen that thread before I wouldn't have posted anything.

 

[big dog cowboy]

They should raise the minimum wage for waiters/waitresses to the national min.

Do that and the price of eating out goes up. The price of eating out goes up, we eat out less often. We eat out less often, waiters/waitresses get layed off.

Pay for those type of jobs are setup like that for a reason. I would rather have a job making that money and earn my tips than be unemployeed.

 

[Rynie]

. And I have no problem tipping; I tip generously when the waiter does their job. I also have no problem not tipping if said waiter is doing a terrible job. I start with a generous figure and it goes down based on performance.

I agree with everything you've said here 100%.

 

[Hoofbite]

He made a good point, regardless. You tip at a restaurant or you end up with stuff in your food that comes out of every human's nastiest orifices. Bon appetite!

Wow.

Tip me or I'll **** in your food.

I'm sure that slogan really goes over well.

I'm half tempted to go to a restaurant and not tip, return the next day and then take my food straight to a lab to look for anything that shouldn't be in there.

 

[jnday]

The bottom line is some people are just ****in cheap, end of story.

They LOOK for reasons to tip less or not tip at all

Have you considered that some waiters are lazy , rude and just don't do their job ? I have only had this happen a couple of times, but it does happen. Waiting on a fork or drinks for a half an hour will change your mind about people that don't leave a tip. It happens. It happens quite often actually. I tip well if the sevice is good. I have left tips that was larger than the bill. I have left a quarter a couple of times just to let the waiter know that I didn't forget the tip. The service was just that bad. If you want to reward bad service, keep tipping. I just tip depending on the sevice that the waiter provides.

 

[Sarge]

They should raise the minimum wage for waiters/waitresses to the national min. so that tips become extra incentive for performing their duties exceptionally.

That is NOT the answer.

 

[dez_for_prez]

He made a good point, regardless. You tip at a restaurant or you end up with stuff in your food that comes out of every human's nastiest orifices. Bon appetite!

Does this happen at your restaurant?

 

[dez_for_prez]

No. But I do at Sonic. Normally .50 cents or the change.

That's not the 15%-30% that people feel we should be tipping though.

 

[dez_for_prez]

In Canada waiters receive at least minimum wage. Rarely will my meal come to more then $40-$50, and I won't tip more then $5.

 

[MonsterD]

I tip generously when the waiter does their job. I also have no problem not tipping if said waiter is doing a terrible job. I start with a generous figure and it goes down based on performance.

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[burmafrd]

I have never not left a tip; but I have left a tip of 10 cents once; I think that makes a point.

She was rude and got our order wrong twice. If we had not been in a hurry I would have stopped and talked to the manager.

 

[vta]

He made a good point, regardless. You tip at a restaurant or you end up with stuff in your food that comes out of every human's nastiest orifices. Bon appetite!

Tipping comes long after you've eaten. If it's bad enough that you're compelled to tip bad or not tip at all, why would you go back?

Only twice in my life have I left without tipping, because the service was so bad, I know the ******* didn't deserve a penny, and I never went back. I couldn't imagine going back to someplace that treated us so bad.

 

[notherbob]

I posted this in the Johnny Carson thread but it seems appropriate for this thread also.

While I respect the showmanship of Johnny Carson, it has been hard for me to respect him as a person. Before he became famous he was a personality on a local TV station in Omaha and used to eat lunch every day at the downtown restaurant (then called Dixon's) where my mother worked as a waitress and every day sat in her station and she always gave him the best service yet he never once left a tip for her. I made $200 a month back then but when I ate out I always tipped the waitress. I simply could not respect a person making at least 10 or 20 times my meager money not tipping a waitress. He just wasn't my kind of people.

 

[JonJon]

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That's pretty funny. I don't go to that extreme, but a friend of mine will put the tip on the table from the beginning and subtract from it based on performance.

 

[theogt]

If you cannot afford the tip, you cannot afford the meal. End of story.

If you cannot tip then do not order food or drinks from an establishment where it is customary to do so.

boom! this right here, if you can not AFFORD 15% you can not afford to eat out, so eat some ramen that night and go out the next night because you saved about 4-5 bucks so you can afford to tip

These are the correct responses. If you can't afford it, don't do it.

 

[theogt]

I dont get to pay less for the meal if I didn't like it. I don't get to pay less for a movie if it was boring. You tip 15-20% because both you and the person providing you a service that YOU have requested to receive expect it to be paid. It's a payment for services rendered, not charity. Avoiding payment makes you a dishonorable person.

 

[jimmy40]

so how much do you tip at a buffet where the waitress is just refilling your drink? Are they paid the same as waitresses at a normal restaurant?

 

[theogt]

so how much do you tip at a buffet where the waitress is just refilling your drink? Are they paid the same as waitresses at a normal restaurant?

15-20%. Why anything else? At a buffet that usually equates to leaving a few dollars on the table.

 

[jnday]

I dont get to pay less for the meal if I didn't like it. I don't get to pay less for a movie if it was boring. You tip 15-20% because both you and the person providing you a service that YOU have requested to receive expect it to be paid. It's a payment for services rendered, not charity. Avoiding payment makes you a dishonorable person.

Should you tip the full amount if you don't recieve the service? I usually tip way more than the norm. Sometimes I tip more than the meal cost if the meal and service is very good. I have ran into waiter problems just a very few times in my life. When the sevice stinks, I have shorted the tip. Is that wrong in your view?