Geoff
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I tip 20%. I tip higher for inexpensive breakfasts & lunches.
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Tipping: What's your policy?
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Cannonball
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Just for the record, ^That's not my policy...just a killer scene.
I tip well. 20% standard with more for good service. I have tipped 50% - 100% on a many occasions for excellent service. But I also have no tolerance for bad service and have no problem leaving minimal to no tip for a-holes.
We've got any interesting thing going on at a local bar. The serve $0.99 PBR pints. As soon as you order one, the bar service goes to hell. I've gotten to know a few of the bartenders and they say that they don't waste their time serving cheap beer because the tips aren't worth it. This is ironic to me because I end up leaving HUGE tips when the beer is cheap simply because I end up with a good buzz and a lot of left over cash in my pocket. Now the bartenders that know that give me great service....the others I still can't get a second beer from.
gmcunni
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i do and apparently its rubbed off on my son. i give him a few bucks to pickup something and when i ask for the change he tells me he left it in the tip jar. when it was a $6 purchase and i gave him a $10 i start to scratch my head.. maybe i should frisk him.
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I also have experience working in restaurants....I generally tip 20% pretax. If it's awful awful service I will go to 10-15%. I will also say something to mgt if the service is really bad too.
I leave change in the tip jar at D&D or whatever. Chances are that D&D worker put just as much effort into making my ice coffee as a bartender did in pouring me a beer and probably make a similar hourly wage. Same goes for take out. Takes that counter person just as much time and effort to gather all my things together as it takes a bartender to pour my beer.
Geoff
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I don't tip takeout. That's like tipping the cashier in the grocery store when you buy a rotisserie chicken.
Attack of the food industry workers!
I too have spent the majority of my work life in the food industry. I leave 20% pre-tax. Service would have to be extraordinarily poor for me to leave less than that. Servers make nothing in salary and depend on their tips. I've gone to restaurants with primadonnas who have special preparation requests and who never seem to be happy with their meal. So they leave a poor tip for the server which is just plain wrong because the server has no control over food quality other than timely delivery to the table.
Frankly, if the service is really bad my policy is to inform the manager, cancel my order, and leave the establishment. Only happened once in my life when a server made a racial comment to my wife who is Jamaican.
I too have spent the majority of my work life in the food industry. I leave 20% pre-tax. Service would have to be extraordinarily poor for me to leave less than that. Servers make nothing in salary and depend on their tips. I've gone to restaurants with primadonnas who have special preparation requests and who never seem to be happy with their meal. So they leave a poor tip for the server which is just plain wrong because the server has no control over food quality other than timely delivery to the table.
Frankly, if the service is really bad my policy is to inform the manager, cancel my order, and leave the establishment. Only happened once in my life when a server made a racial comment to my wife who is Jamaican.
gmcunni
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what about at buffet ?
o3jeff
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I think tipping is getting a little out of hand, if someone touches a product now it seems like they want a tip now a days.
Riverskier
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+1
Riverskier
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I tip 20% on the full bill. Just slightly higher or lower than that for really good or really bad service, but I am pretty consistent. At bars I tip $1 a drink, unless buying multiple drinks at once and then it varies.
I'm not a fan of restaurants that automatically put a gratuity charge onto your bill. That's not for them to decide, but I understand that it foils deadbeats who don't tip. Still wrong in my book.
Since they usually tack on 18%, I'll tell the server that they need to go to a restaurant without that policy because they are getting screwed out of the 2% extra I usually leave at 20%, then I make up the difference.
SkiDork
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Hawkshot99
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Buffets make it difficult, since they are really just a busboy. I always do leave $ though. $2-3 per person I guess.
Exactly. While I do understand that waiters do make less than normal because of tipping, they chose to work in that line of work. If you have horrible people skills, or are just a bad waiter than no I am not going to give you a great tip just because. At my work if I am not capable of doing the work properly or my bad people skills get me in trouble with customers I am going to be let go, and then I have no money.
As far as what I tip...15-20% is normal depending on the service, can be lower, can be higher.
Warp Daddy
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15-20% BUT poor performance should NEVER be rewarded in ANY profession . - just sayin
Usually in the 20% range. We tend to round up unless the service wasn't very good. I've never left nothing, and I don't think I ever could or would.
I can't agree more on this point. I am a 20+% guy myself with the exception of the breakfast phenomenon that DHS described.
gmcunni
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does the same logic apply for an overpriced dinner? the cost of materials is higher but the service to deliver it is the same so tip less than 20%?
That's a good point.
I don't apply the same logic as typically an evening server needs to have much more knowledge about food, wine, liquor etc.
I guess I just feel cheap leaving $3 for a 20% tip on a $15 meal when the server has busted their ass bringing me my food, making sure my coffee is full etc. Well, the latter is for most people. I actually don't like breakfast servers refilling my coffee until I've finished the cup. Screws up my sugar/cream/coffee ratio :lol:
general minimum for me on tipping is $5 per person in the party.
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