1% tip, on expensive lunch. **and my rant on pay, gratuity, and salary jobs**

[flatwins]

I haven't read the whole thread since it is a lot to read and i makes my brain hurt. ;-)

Having said that, when I was in college in the 12th century I worked at Eskimo Joes. I wasn't wait staff but I worked in the kitchen and saw\heard what wait staff puts up with in the daily course of their job. So..I pretty much tip 20% all the time, even if the service is not completely stellar.

 

[Honey Badger]

The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of a$$holes in the world. Guys like the banker are plentiful. I try to not pay them too much heed because they are miserable, arrogant pricks that have forgotten/ or never knew what it is like to NOT be wealthy. One day they will stand before a higher judge and have to account for their attitudes and behaviors. We all pay for what we do in the end. Rest assured that this fella will get what's coming to him.

On a happier note I would hope the waiter/waitress that got the 1% tip will remember the day and learn soemthing from it. Like maybe how NOT to treat someone in the same position. I'll admit that as a teacher I see classrooms full of little turds that act just like I did when I was in school. I often think to myself that I would/should go back and apologize to EVERY teacher I EVER disrespected. Lesson learned. I am paying for what I did. LOL......

 

[inactive]

^^ great post.



For some of the people here bagging on the concept workers relying on tips as income: Isn't this the purest form of capitalism? Rather that paying them a regular wage, they are truly getting paid bu customer for their output? How is this wrong? I personally like the fact that I am empowered to reward good service, and penalize poor.

To those who say they only tip 10% because meal prices have inflated, and the servers don't need more: Restaurant staff has to purchase the same things you do, subject to the same inflation. Your analogy of saying that 10% today is the same as 20% year ago is basically saying that you never need a raise to your salary, even for cost of living increases. You're being either myopic, or just an ass.

To the guy who tips more than 90 cents on a 6 dollar meal: I agree and do the same. You get it. Bravo. I even tip servers a couple bucks on take out (10%ish) if they were friendly and prompt because they took time to get it all together and wait on me.

 

[MLRyan]

Anyone that says tipping is crap has never had to work in food/beverage service. Fact.

 

[Shoot Summ]

I worked as a waiter back in the dark ages, I was 15. I made GREAT money for a 15 year old, I think the pay rate was about 1.10 an hour, I always came home with $40-$50 in my pocket after an 8 hour shift, not bad for the 70's. I was smart enough(oddly) to realize then that I wanted nothing to do with the food service industry as a career. For those that choose it, it is what it is, if you don't like it, do something else. There are aspects of every job that we don't like, I don't ***** about what my Customers do to me, it is part of the job, and how business has evolved. How I choose to tip is my business, I don't do it out of sympathy for a career choice.

 

[RidgeHunter]

If I read the OP's wall-of-text rants, am I just going to discover him trying to rationalize being a bitter cheap-ass? Someone save me some time here.

All the waitstaff I know says wealthy, white-collar people are the worst tippers as a rule. Blue collar, manual labor and service industry types usually tip well. Tipping is part of the price going out to eat; if you don't want to tip or can't afford to tip...eat at home. You don't go into a nice restaurant and order a $5.50 bottle of beer and tell them "I can get a six-pack of this at the liquor store for $9...I'm not paying for this." Eating out isn't a necessity, it's not some inherent right you have, and quit your gotdamn bitching about it costing money...or stop eating out.

Any place that has good service an I would go back to, I tip well. On cheaper bills like stopping for breakfast alone during the week, I push it over 50% ($5 on a $9 bill yesterday). With a larger bill and more than one person I can't remember the last time I've tipped under 25-30%. Hell I've tipped a single-mom waitress in a diner in the middle of nowhere $20 for a $7 breakfast just because it was Christmas time, and after watching everyone else tip her loose change I figured $20 would mean more to her than it does to me.

I tend to tip better in rural areas or somewhere else where the staff doesn't rake in many tips. Not uncommon for me to watch EVERYONE in a diner during hunting season tip the lone waitress loose change, or maybe a buck for a huge, messy table they sat at for an hour and a half as she tended their coffees and cleaned up after their kids. If I see that, I'll do like I typed above.

 

[benjamin-benjamin]

If I read the OP's wall-of-text rants, am I just going to discover him trying to rationalize being a bitter cheap-ass? Someone save me some time here.

All the waitstaff I know says wealthy, white-collar people are the worst tippers as a rule. Blue collar, manual labor and service industry types usually tip well. Tipping is part of the price going out to eat; if you don't want to tip or can't afford to tip...eat at home. You don't go into a nice restaurant and order a $5.50 bottle of beer and tell them "I can get a six-pack of this at the liquor store for $9...I'm not paying for this." Eating out isn't a necessity, it's not some inherent right you have, and quit your gotdamn bitching about it costing money...or stop eating out.

Any place that has good service an I would go back to, I tip well. On cheaper bills like stopping for breakfast alone during the week, I push it over 50% ($5 on a $9 bill yesterday). With a larger bill and more than one person I can't remember the last time I've tipped under 25-30%. Hell I've tipped a single-mom waitress in a diner in the middle of nowhere $20 for a $7 breakfast just because it was Christmas time, and after watching everyone else tip her loose change I figured $20 would mean more to her than it does to me.

I tend to tip better in rural areas or somewhere else where the staff doesn't rake in many tips. Not uncommon for me to watch EVERYONE in a diner during hunting season tip the lone waitress loose change, or maybe a buck for a huge, messy table they sat at for an hour and a half as she tended their coffees and cleaned up after their kids. If I see that, I'll do like I typed above.

take your logic to some other thread. logical, emotionally stable, compassionate posts are not welcome here...

 

[SiGArmed]

Seem's like now days, tipping discussions get more heated then religion or politics lol.

 

[MLRyan]

Seem's like now days, tipping discussions get more heated then religion or politics lol.

Don't even get me started on church people and tipping. No, I don't want a bible verse written on a napkin(Actually had this happen a few times). I want money so I can pay rent.

 

[JB Books]

Don't even get me started on church people and tipping. No, I don't want a bible verse written on a napkin(Actually had this happen a few times). I want money so I can pay rent.

Church people are horrible tippers. Clients too. Members of outlaw motorcycle clubs and the Aryan Brotherhood are more respectful to my staff than the "religious people." And damn sure have less of a sense of entitlement.