Posted on 12/06/2005 12:33:26 PM PST by George14
Uhhhh ok,
I usually just give my waiter or waitress their tip in cash. If they choose to share it's their business.
Oh please can we do a little more self promotion.
I work in the casino business and we split tips only with those who provide direct services to the dealers. Who the hell do you think make the tipped DEALERS work possible.
The people who clean the cards, sort them, bring the customers in etc. Casinos for example keep no portion of the dealers tips they strictly distribute the tip contributions made by the dealers.
Cool, thanks for the update. It's going on 10 years for me since I last went.
Cow Tipping is for wimps... try Bull Tipping.
Where does this happen? My bartender gets his tip, my waitress gets her tip, my barber get his and I've never seen any one them put the money in the owner's till,pocket or whatever. On a credit card, maybe that's different. I don't see what the b!tch is here.
I don't tip because society says I gotta. I tip when somebody deserves a tip. When somebody really puts forth an effort, they deserve a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, that sh!t's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doin their job.
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You have obviously never been outside the USA. Tipping is almost exclusively done here.
I agree. I was in NYC and needed to get to the airport quickly. I told the cabbie how much of a tip (flat amount) he would get if he would get me to the airport by X time. He did and he got his tip.
PS No hazardous driving was involved or required, but he really took the fastest way. Shortest trip to Laguardia I ever had.
And by the way.....I've been tipping 30% for good service for years now.
Just back from Germany and 10% tipping is the norm.
It is a different Europe now.
But what about the Trilateral Commision and the Bildebergers? And something this big couldn't happen without the Pope being involved. < /sarcasm, as if you couldn't tell>
Tip the horse. If you don't, you'll be sorry next time.
:-) You're welcome. You also have to tell the waiter before he takes your credit card that you would like the bill to include a tip. Otherwise you would have to leave a cash tip.
Tipping is elitist and un-American? So we can cheat, steal, murder, sell state secrets, etc., so long as we don't tip our favorite waiter. OK. Sounds reasonable.
Me, too. A tip under the table is my own personal rebellion against the IRS.
"Tipping seems so European."
Not sure what you mean. In Germany, for instance, you round out your bill to the next Mark (euro). It might be mere pennies. "Stimtt so!"
10% as of November 2005. I just came back
Tip share is bogus. It only serves to allow employers to pay busboys and cooks less money. Those folks are not on the 2'13 per hour scale and the tips I have always left were for the WAITRESS/WAITER for their service. I have stopped tipping alltogether due to tipshare.
If I think my booth is very clean and I want to tip the busboy I will. If I want to tip the cooks I will. To me, those services are part the bill I pay for the meal. A curteous waitress that never lets my drink glass go empty is worth a tip. But she aint going to get one from me when I know that her employer is going to take that tip and split it up with other folks that did not intend to tip at all.
Tip share is a form of socialism in that a work group will all get equal share of tips made, so then while a waitress busts her a$$ and the busboy slacks off(or the other way around) the each get the same cut. Pi$$ on that noise.
That's it, I'm takin' my dollar back.
But what's True Blue really about?
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