I’d tip 20% for a warning
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Tipping: I can't be the only one, right?
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Your grandchildren don't want to work for a paycheck. Thanks PawPaw
How about when you pay your check with cash (you are in a large group) and even though you see the upcharge for being in a party (about 20% of the bill by my quick calcs), and the waitress doesn't/won't bring you your change? I mean it was only $4.54 (the change due) but still.....
By not bringing my change the waitress helped herself to more than a 32% tip for mediocre service and lukewarm food.
Yesterday?
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Don’t forget to tip the other members that expect you to deliver hours from where you put the meet location is.
Lawn care guys and Uber drivers definitely deserve a tip. Same as junk removal, furniture movers, etc. Sometimes you're not paying them for the work, you're paying for a good attitude and a bit of company.I absolutely refuse to tip anyone, anywhere other than the wait staff at a restaurant. And I honestly don't even like doing it there. "Tipping" is a public subsidy. The federal government allows restaurateurs to pay wait staff less than minimum wage and we subsidize the rest of their pay. It's not about honoring work ethic or about showing off. It's 100% a reminder that the federal government is OK with people being paid less than they should because they can get us to cover the difference in tips....which then becomes taxed twice. Once when I got it and again when I give it as a tip. The whole thing pisses me off.
And so now hair dressers want a tip? Uber drivers? Lawn care guys? The girl behind the register at Moe's? Uh, no...kick rocks, nerds.
I heard Marc Arum doing a whole show on this the other day and it just drove me crazy. People were calling in talking about how they tip tow truck drivers and plumbers and all manner of ridiculousness. Why on Earth would I "tip" a plumber? You fixed the pooper. I paid you. Pound sand. I'm not giving you a tip.
Please tell me I'm not alone on this.
I understand not wanting to tip the Moe's / coffee shop cashiers though. In all honesty, I avoid anywhere that I'm aware someone's gonna ask me for a tip.
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I pay tips in cash to the folks that interacted with me. Nothing on card
Hold up there homey. Speaking from experience both as a customer and as a waiter. As a customer, I can tell you that there are absolutely valid reasons for not leaving any sort of gratuity at all. There are reasons I've left as little as a penny for the gratuity. There are reasons for leaving a large or generous gratuity. There are reasons I've walked back to the kitchen to tip the line.
As a waiter, there've been times when I've thrown tips in the bus pan as they weren't worth picking up. There've been times when I expected NO gratuity because I was purposefully slow walking every dish, ignoring every plea for more sweet tea, and for not checking on the table during their meal. This crowd was comprised of a local church group that came in and took up 4 four tops in my section and ran me to death the first time I had to wait on them. When they paid their individual checks I received either $1 plus some change on a $38 or $45 check, and this is so typical, they'd leave me a religious track folded to look like a $5 bill but when you unfolded it they were telling you how to be saved. That kind of crap. So, on their next visit, I conspired with my coworkers to give them the worst possible service the next time the crowd of tea swilling, pastitsio slurping, Bible thumping fat asses sat down. Must have worked because when they paid their checks the second time, they actually left decent tips even though I was determined they'd die of thirst before I refilled a tea glass (one fat ass even got up and served himself).
I've had a regular customer base that came into the restaurant every week and asked for my section. One week the hostess attempted to "assign tables" instead of seating customers by their request, I had regular customers apologize to ME and then tell the hostess that if I wasn't going to be their server, they'd rather eat somewhere else and leave. (the owner quickly remedied that situation and guests were seated where they wanted to be seated)
So, my wall of text is an explanation and correction. A waiter/waitress is not an indentured servant. They are free to sell their labor to anyone they please and any price that can be negotiated. IF that's $2.11 per hour plus gratuities, then they understand that when they accept the position. To insist on paying a gratuity, simply because someone works for a low hourly wage, without regard to the quality of that work or the product delivered from the kitchen? LOL, communist much? Maybe go to the higher end ghetto establishments like Applebee's where gratuities are pooled, then doled out by a kommissar, "each according to his abilities, each according to his needs."
This whining about pay is constant from wait staff and teachers. If you weren't smart enough to figure out what the pay might be, why did you enter that profession? I know waiters in Chicago that make over $130K per year, in tips. They are excellent at what they do and they have extensive knowledge of wine pairings, food preparation and the ingredients for the dishes they are serving. They bothered to learn something other than "Ham n' cheese omelette plate! Scattered & smothered! Biscuit instead!"
And who of you still tip the folks at a buffet? Well, those buffet employee that walk by the table and ask “Is everything ok?” They’re expecting your cash giveaway…
