Posted on 11/22/2022 2:04:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
+1
A friend once served Sean Hannity and a large group. He is known for 100% tipping. My buddy got a $5000 tip that night
I’ve eaten with him at that restaurant. Excellent and memorable.
-PJ
Buffalo Wild Wings carryout has a 99¢ service fee added along with a tip you have to jump through a couple hoops to zero out. Tipping before I get the food where the “service” is packing the cold veggies and hot chicken in the same bag out on a pickup shelf? Nope!
My pastor believed that too. It is a charitable act, and if you can’t afford it, then dine in.
Unless a server provides absolutely OUTSTANDING service - to the point you leave the restaurant and say “that was the most amazing experience we’ve ever had at a restaurant”, simply coming to your table, answering a couple basic questions about the menu (not always guaranteed, BTW) and bringing you your food is NOT worth 20%. Especially with the huge increases in menu prices over the last year or so.
15% for good, friendly service. 10% if you are competent but don’t do much else. Heck, I’ve even left less than that on the rare occasion the server can’t even do the basics (like, getting orders wrong, not knowing the menu or forgetting to come back and even ask how everything is..)
And tablet tipping? (ie: where a kid grabs a bagel from a rack for you and the tablet you sign indicates a spot for a tip). SERIOUSLY?!
That irks me also
Pubs in the UK normally don’t accept tips. Nightclubs there are different. To get served at a busy NC, where the bar is crowded...flashing 20 quid would get you noticed (probably £50, now).
And in France...if you stood at the bar to drink coffee or booze..the price was less. Choose to sit at a table...more.
Why tip at all? The servers make $18 an hour now, it costs $30 for two orders of burgers and fries at our local diner. It is more for breakfast omelets, hash browns and toast for 2.
Tipping at Papa Murphys, you have to go out of your way while ordering online to avoid it. They just throw ingredients on a shell and wrap it is plastic. I don’t tip for that.
Try Five Guys, almost $50 for two people.
Because 20% is more than the restaurant owner makes?
Because with tip and tax you pay 30% over the menu price?
Because you can eat out and reduce the tip or not eat out at all in which case the tip is ZERO?
Because waiting tables is not a career or profession?
Because you can remember when 10% was generous, usual and customary?
Because you remember when 15% was for exceptional service whatever that is?
Because it is just not worth 20% of the meal cost to take your order, bring your food, keep your glass filled, stay out of the way and bring the check?
Because you can eat fast food and there is no tip?
And besides, what is an exceptional dining experience anyway? A huge chunk of it is the food and maybe the setting which the waiter had absolutely nothing to do with.
I prefer to eat at home.
The world is better off when I stay home and I certainly am.
15% is the max in our house.
After 50+ comments, never saw mention that these days, tips are shared: percentage to server; chef; line cooks, busser, dishwasher; host/hostess; and, sometimes. the manager.
HOWEVER, in our region fast food workers are getting $14-16 to start; restaurant workers get more. With inflated menu prices...$10.99 for a hotdog!...a 20% minimum tip is getting out of hand.
I generally, for a sit down dinner at a decent restaurant, tip 10-15% ON THE CARD; and separately tip the waitperson with surreptitious cash & instruction that that is separate, for their own good service, and not for sharing.
yes, I recall very well the 10% standard. It seems to just start creeping upward, without anyone saying just why or how, after years of stability. I just chalk it up to inflation for the price of service, like the price of goods. Besides, waiters work hard usually, and what’s a few bucks more after buying 10-12 dollar cocktails and 50-100 bucks on dinner?
I give 20% or more for very good service. Zero if it is bad. 10% is for decent service but nothing very special. Not sure how 20% became considered minimum.
There are segments of the culture that never have tipped and never will tip...
Once Oregon increased their minimum wage onto their other side of reality, I have made sure my tip never exceeds 10%.
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