Do You Tip?

[CellyCell]

I'm reading some stuff for my exam on Sociolcaca (aka sociology) Class and had to read on waitresses and tips and yada-yada...

It got me wondering if you tip?
How much would you usually tip... do you do it because you feel obligated or because it's the right thing to do, excellent services, feel like they need the money etc-etc...
If you don't, why not?

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I do tip on occasion and it's always $2/3 - all the time. I'm way too broke to be tipping more than that and I usually tip on what I paid for myself ($12 bill, $3 tip - sounds fair, right?), not the accumulative amount me and my friends pay for together. If they don't tip, that's on them.
Sometimes I do stiff if we get horrible service...but that's not often.
I wish every job where allowed to get tips, lol.

Is tipping just an American thing, btw?

 

[leenybeeny]

If the service is what I expect, I tip 15%. If it is better than expected, I tip 20% or more. I have a few friends who work as servers and their base pay is next to nothing.

 

[CantAffordMAC]

I tip because I want to. I know how it feels to have to work for tips, I know how it feels to get a great tip and to get absolutely nothing when I gave u a service. Its not a good feeling.

At restaurants I tip based on the percentage, meal cost, etc. Then it depends on the waiter. If u give me shitty service, sorry but Ill probably leave u a 2 dollar tip. Dont expect a good tip from me if u didnt give me good service. Ive had waitresses ignore me, didnt give me what I ordered, and waitresses who tried to take a plate away TWICE when we were clearly still eating, and keep coming back to try and get us to leave every 4 minutes. She got 2 dollars

Then, we have had a waitress who was the best ever, and we left her a 20.

 

[CellyCell]

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Originally Posted by leenybeeny If the service is what I expect, I tip 15%. If it is better than expected, I tip 20% or more. I have a few friends who work as servers and their base pay is next to nothing.

So you tip all the time, no matter what?

 

[TISH1124]

If the service is poor...I speak to the mgr normally....But yes I always tip because I have had very few instances where I have had to speak to a mgr regarding bad service..I tip 20%...My dh tips about 25-30% unless I give him the evil eye then he may pull a dollar or two back

 

[melozburngr]

I generally tip 20% as a starting point (It may go up, or it may go down)- after working in the service industry, you learn what a SHITTY job it can be, and how many people don't feel the need to tip at all, which essentially equates to the server paying part of your bill, since a server is taxed on 10% of your bill.

however, that said, having been a server for 10 years out of my 27 year life, I can see when you're screwing around and not doing your job, I time how long it takes to be acknowledged, how long it takes to get to get my food, and how long it takes to get my bill. Sadly for you, this WILL affect your tip. If I see you trying and running around, even if it takes forever to get my food etc, Ill still tip well, cause you're trying, generally more than 20% if I see you busting ass, but if I see you standing around socializing, your tip goes down EVERY MINUTE you take to greet me, get my food, etc.

Also, remember this - a shitty tip can ruin a server's entire day, but an unexpected tip that is above the norm 25%+ will make the entire shift. It is the little things. Compliment the server to a manager if they've done a good job, it makes both the manager and the server feel good!

 

[CosmePro]

I double the tax and that's the tip. Tax here is 8.9% so that's like 18% tip. I think for the most part that's fair.

I'm a hairstylist and it just kills me when ppl come in asking for the world (WAIT!! Let me go get my magic wand instead of my scissors/color brush) and then not even 1) saying thank you and/or 2)tipping. I just think it's the height of rudeness not to when you know that they are basically working for tips.

 

[TISH1124]

Also...a lot of the servers have to split their tips with the bus boys etc..so I try and compensate for that too

adding...food being late, etc...is most time not the servers fault ..Service Yes, but there are a lot of issues that they have to take the responsiblity for

 

[mtrimier]

The only time I don't tip a server is when they are really terrible. Usually whomever I am with will still leave something, but I don't.

If I were still in the service industry, and I was shitty to someone, I wouldn't expect a tip and it bothers me when some servers think that it's owed to them.

I tip anywhere from 10-30%, depending on the service (both what I am having/having done and the person doing it).

 

[MiCHiE]

Yes, I always tip.....unless the waiter/waitress acts as if it's not an important part of their income and gives me shoddy service.

 

[Kayteuk]

I dont tip in the UK usually, if the staff are really nice I will leave them £1 or £2. I worked as a waitress when I was 13-15 and not a lot of people tipped then, and I dont think many people in the UK do now in my area.

In the USA I always tip, unless the service is poor or they screw up my order.

 

[jdechant]

If I get OK Service, I tip...

If I get GREAT Service, I tip more...

If I get HORRIBLE Service, No tip..not my problem that the server has to tip out...

I've worked in a restaurant/lounge, so I get it..but If my waiter/waitress, doesn't care..then either do I ...lol, but that doesn't happen to often.

 

[fillintheblank]

servers in jersey make like a little over 2 something an hour, they're working for tips so I always tip.

 

[ImMACnificent]

I always tip, the server would pretty much have to curse me out or purposely drop food on me for me to NOT tip at all.

I usually overtip, especially if I really like the server or think they have a nice personality and did their job.

I was a server in college, not that long ago, heh and I got screwed so many times by people that I worked my butt off for, it's really not fair to tip any less than 15% unless it's REALLY bad service. I pretty much tip 20-30% most of the time if it's adequate service.

 

[jdechant]

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Originally Posted by fillintheblank servers in jersey make like a little over 2 something an hour, they're working for tips so I always tip.

2 something an hour!!?? Is that allowed?? Wow...I would NOT be getting a waitress job there...In Canada, it has to go by minimum wage, so you don't make great base pay as a waitress...but you easily make 3 to 4 times more then 2 dollars!!!

 

[Divinity]

Being in the service industry for a while now, I tip all the time. There has been rare occasions when I haven't, but it was warranted. I don't tip for bad service. I'm a 20% tipper regularly, unless it was just average service, then 10%. In my experiences, I usually get the kind of service that warrants 20%. In my opinion, that should be the service you are giving as a service provider.

 

[xoxredefined]

I always tip... I have worked as a bartender and server... So I know what it feels like when u work hard to please the people you are serving and giving them more than expected service... I really live off the tips I receive from people because we get paid less than the standard minimum wage... I really do appreciate it when people tip a fare amount when I know that I gave them great service... But it does get to me sometimes when i bend over backwards for them and they leave barely anything...

When I tip, i usually do 15 - 20%, but if they have done a great job and made me feel welcomed as a guest and not just a customer who is paying for food, ill leave a couple extra dollars and tell them they gave great service... i know i like it when im told by my guest that they had a great time and they really appreciate what i did for them

 

[ImMACnificent]

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Originally Posted by jdechant 2 something an hour!!?? Is that allowed?? Wow...I would NOT be getting a waitress job there...In Canada, it has to go by minimum wage, so you don't make great base pay as a waitress...but you easily make 3 to 4 times more then 2 dollars!!!

I believe it went up when the minimum wage went up. I think it's over 3 now, but still, servers rely on tips. Most servers that work a certain amount of hours, dont' even get a base pay, taxes takes it all away so all they get is their tips.

 

[s0_fam0us]

Like most of the people here, I worked as a server for awhile, too. Base pay for servers in Connecticut 2 years ago was somewhere around $4.50, while minimum wage was $8.00 (I think. Or $7.70... I can't remember), so I understand that the majority of the money a server makes comes from tipping.

I (99% of the time) will leave at least 20%. I think now in CT if a restaurant adds gratuity to a check (which they will for bigger parties), it's done at 18%.

 

[jdechant]

Lol, I should start recruiting for my small town! One of my good friends works in a lounge here, her base pay is 10 something an hour, as well as she usually never leaves a shift without at least $150.00 in tips ranging up to $200-$300 on the weekends!! I would just hate working in the evening/weekends without health benefits..