Tipping
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- payton0
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- M_C_P0
Do any of you tip on takeout/to-go orders?
why? why not?
- no, you paid them for the food and did the rest yourself.doesnotexist
- gramme0
tgqt, you've obviously never waited tables. In the U.S., wait staff makes below minimum wage because it is assumed the bulk of their income will be tips. If you don't want to help some kid make ends meet, especially if they do a good job, then be my guest. But, if you make it known on an international forum that you are uncharitable and stingy, then you will get an earful my friend.
- tgqt0
i am not hedge.
I have worked laborious jobs [construction] and worked service related positions on and off between my 20's to 30's.
I have had nothing handed to me. I have been 100% responsible for myself, schooling, and expenditures since I turned 18.
I no longer tip. If you want to continue to tip that's ok by me, I don't control you and will not try to call you names and make you feel bad.
- dog_opus0
I tip 20% all the time, unless it's apparent that whoever is providing service made an effort to be a jerk. I know what it's like to rely on tips. That's how I supported a good part of my godlike beer habit in the nineties.
- letters20
You need to spend some time in a non-service oriented culture. then you'll appreciate the subjective, tipping system. Oh, and keep in mind that "waiter/waitress" wages are different than other minimums (to account for tipping) here in the US.
- mrdobolina0
I will almost always give a bartender an extra buck if I order a beer. The more I am thinking about this, if the bar is busy, I am not going to do that anymore. You can hand out 100 beers in an hour, if everyone tipped you a buck you are now making plumber money and have no real marketable skill.
- i generally tip a buck for the first one and then the other tips are decided by how quickly i am served7point34
- stoplying0
Wow, you don't tip?
You're freakin crazy man.
God you're just insane!
- Jaline0
If you don't tip or people know that you aren't going to tip, never go back to that restaurant. And get yourself checked at the hospital because you never know what's in the food your received.
I'm with brains about service. Not sure what it is (maybe I can tolerate a lot), but I rarely get bad service here. I tip pretty well. That being said, if I lived in NY or any other place where you have to tip everyone around you, I wouldn't tip a larger amount (depending on how much money I made). Tipping isn't the worst thing, but it's a nuisance when you have to worry about that all the time. I bet people from other cities are more used to it though.
I disagree with everyone who claims that tipping is the only way waiters, etc. make money. No, it's not. And it shouldn't be your main source of income. There's a problem if it is.
- stoplying0
I will add that the only place where tipping gets annoying is someplace like Vegas, where the door man, the bell hop, the cabby, the dealers, the concierge all get tipped.
But I still shell out the duckets.
- nicole_marie0
Don't act like you are "making a statement" by deciding not to tip anymore... just tell it like it is. You are CHEAP, have never had a hard labor job, possibly had most things handed to you in life, and you STILL want to be cheap.
Most likely you eat alone too, or you would get called on it.
- bigtrickagain0
THIS REMINDS ME OF A JOKE.
Q: What did the leper say to the prostitute?
A: Keep the tip.
- ETM0
I must bring up the question. We all comment how poorly wait staff gets paid and tips make their job viable. But there are MANY people also making minimum wage that get no tips -- cashiers, stock staff, fast food workers. So is it really a valid argument? I am not saying no tips, just noticing the double-standard there.
- wait staff can get less than minimum wage though.mrdobolina
- due to tips.mrdobolina
- I just didn't think it was legal to pay below minimum wage. Maybe it's different in Canada.ETM
- I think it is. It doesn't make sense that people are living off tips.Jaline
- "I think it is" = tipping could be different in Canada, as you mentioned.Jaline
- at least 2.13 an hour for america... the rest is tips7point34
- read that again.7point34
- mrdobolina0
get ready to be called a cheap bitch a lot.
- Jnr_Madison0
*tips hat
Seems ok to me.
- threadpost0
do people tip based on service? It is sorta a weird system when you think about it. I mean, if you genuinely and honestly tipped based on the service, I believe you would see the level of service increase exponentially. As it is now, I just feel obligated to tip around 20%, if its awesome above and beyond I have no problem dropping 30%. But even the shiite service ever, I still tip at least 15%, I just feel obligated. Maybe really shitty service should get a lousy tip? (probably not by me, I'm too much of a pussy and afraid of getting called out) but someone should do it.