Restaurant tipping
- Thread starter KennyPratt42
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Tipping has gotten out of hand. I completely get tipping a bartender, or tipping your server at a full service restaurant. Maybe a few other scenarios. But places where it’s basically the same set up as McDonald’s and they just take your order and hand you your food at the counter, I’d never thought of tipping there before it started coming up on the card reader.
Paying a % tip seems like BS at times. If I have a $60 steak and the table next to me has a $10 burger, the server is doing the same amount of work for each table. But if we both let’s say leave a 20% tip, I am paying $12 and the other table $2.
If you were having a $60 steak then the burger is at least 15 to $17. Hahaha. I get your point, but waiters and waitresses know they are in a numbers game. Sometimes there's a big winner and not so big winner. Think about the guy that orders 1 $15 cocktail and the table next to them orders a $400 bottle of wine.
Nothing irritates me more than the tip when you pay at a place like a coffee shop. give them a tip but then they screw up your beverage…..doesn’t make sense.
When was it decided that certain occupations were going to get less money and make it up in tips and other occupations just get normal wages? Like it's not common to tip the dude changing your oil or mowing your grass but somebody back in the day said wait staff and hair dressers need tips? It just seems so random.
I determine my own tip…final comment being, many moons ago when our daughter worked at O’Malleys in Ames, she always recommended to tip in cash at my discretion. Great service, great meal …. Great tip.
You want to see your service drop? Order water to drink. My family has pretty much stopped drinking pop the last couple years and if we are heading somewhere we don’t do any alcohol. As soon as we went to water as most drinks, or waiter attention seemed to drop. I’m quite often in that 22-25% area for tips to counter that, but I have noticed waiters don’t stop by as much now.
Tipping, has gotten "out of control," and extends well beyond previous tipping entities.
I delivered PP pizzas back in the 80's
My minimum wage comrades n me could deliver up to 100 pies per night.
We'd be blessed, if someone gave us $8 for a $7.90 pie, and told us to keep the 10 cent change. Rare af, believe it or not.
If I delivered 100 pizzas? I'd feel sorta blessed if I came away with a couple of dollors, end of swing-shift+.
Tipping? Wasn't at all expected, via my PP delivery times/era.
Today? I kinda felt degrees of guilt, for not tipping my dentist. Kidding...sorta-kinda!
I delivered PP pizzas back in the 80's
My minimum wage comrades n me could deliver up to 100 pies per night.
We'd be blessed, if someone gave us $8 for a $7.90 pie, and told us to keep the 10 cent change. Rare af, believe it or not.
If I delivered 100 pizzas? I'd feel sorta blessed if I came away with a couple of dollors, end of swing-shift+.
Tipping? Wasn't at all expected, via my PP delivery times/era.
Today? I kinda felt degrees of guilt, for not tipping my dentist. Kidding...sorta-kinda!
Actually, funny you mention tipping the dude changing oil. We had a place open up near us where you wait in your car while they change the oil. Last time I went there, after paying the $80, plus a $5 “shop fee”, the kid asked if I wanted to leave a tip. Telling me “100% goes directly to the people worked on my car”.
That was the time I went to that place.
Nope. A great tip is something that is earned by giving great service, and those who consistently give great service make a very nice living. There's no value in disincentivizing that, as it only really hurts the good ones to the benefit of the mediocre.
Right or wrong, my general rule of thumb for tipping in restaurants.
If I come to the server to order and get my food, no tip. If the server comes to me to get my order and deliver meal, tip. That includes delivery to my house.
If I come to the server to order and get my food, no tip. If the server comes to me to get my order and deliver meal, tip. That includes delivery to my house.
I think Culver’s is still one of the places that does not have a tip option on their card readers.
Ok, didn’t know about that as I haven’t been to one in years since I no longer live in the Midwest anymore.
