Posted on 06/19/2018 2:54:30 PM PDT by bgill
BS. I'm in that group. Servers who recognize me light up when I'm seated. I see what my friends do. 20% is the basic minimum.
How 'bout some statistics by race?
ML/NJ
These are self-reported percentages from a sample, so who knows. Maybe a statistically-relevant number of people in that age group are experiencing dementia. My late father was an excellent tipper most of his life, but when he began to have Alzheimer’s symptoms, he reverted to penny-pinching, as in his childhood poverty.
I’m betting the reason millennials aren’t tippers is because they do not have to do service and restaurant/bar work for college and living money like most of us have-so they are clueless about things like tipping and customer service. Rural kids out here still do service, ranch and restaurant jobs-but I doubt you’d find one city millennial in 10 who had ever mixed and/or served a bar drink or waited a table at a restaurant... `
If my guy takes me out to eat, we only go to one of the 2 farm-to-table natural/organic restaurants here in the boonies-they are owned by locals who grow and cook the food and the waitstaff consists of their own and other neighbors’ millennial offspring-we tip generously because the service is fantastic...
Practically any dessert.
I tip based on service. If I receive good service I typically tip 20% and then adjust down from there. I always leave something even if it’s only .02 but will also leave a note on the receipt about the quality of service so the wait staff, and hopefully management, will see why I left what I did.
I also work with quite a lot of them - our lunch crew is made up of a few boomers, couple of gen X'ers and a handful of millennials. They are very professional and like learning from us "older" generations. They also teach us things too. I am sure that most of them are as hard working as the rest of us, but only the slugs get any news time - that guy who got sued by his parents to get out of the house comes to mind. He is an idiot, yet he got his 15 minutes of fame...
Well, millennials nowadays never see any of the tips that they supposedly get; they’re paid under minimum wage and the tips ‘make up’ for it.
I’m an Xlinnial myself, kinda caught between generations. I make sure that I tip, 10-15% whenever I sit down somewhere. 10% for minor service like an ice cream cone somewhere, 15% for an actual meal.
It’s always nice to hear about a member of my generation who wasn’t caught up in the liberal SJW crap and is making a living for herself!
I started working in restaurants when I was not yet nine years old.
With the exception of pensioners and the elderly, the worst tippers are ALWAYS the left-winger types. (And Europeans, but I repeat myself.)
As Freeper Kenny Bunk said:
“What’s the difference between a Canadian and a Canoe?”
Dunno but if I can find the right volunteers I’ll run a test.
My son worked at Sonic briefly. The staff are paid the sub-minimum restaurant wage. No one knows this, so the kids gets stiffed. I mean, who expects to leave a tip for this type of service?
Would Gordon Ramsey agree?
(Probably)
Time for the Manziere
Some people pay extra for that type of thing
Anything not served flambé.
Ouuuch!
I’m retiring in 3 years and will make half of what I do now. I’ll still tip at least 20% for good service.
Ha! No. Not the volunteers I have in mind.
don’t keep us waiting for the punch line.
Oh, I thought you were concerned your man boobs were dragging in the tiramisu. ;) ;) ;). Instead you’re running a baywatch casting call... I get it!
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