The tipping thread (1 Viewer)

[Saint Sarah]

Looking at this thread reminded me of Foxworth's redneck routine. Some of you guys don't even realize you're bad tippers! Some of you think that you're actually decent. I help you out.

You just might be a poor tipper if:

1. You can say unequivocally right now that you tip within a certain range without knowing the restaurant or the bill. Really? You tip between 15 and 40 bucks when go to Applebees or to GW Fins?
2. You tip below 20% for any meal consumed at a restaurant.
3. You tip based on service. As long as the service was provided you pay at least 20% for it. Whether or not they smiled is irrelevant, but feel free to tip more if they did.
4. You tip based off of pre-tax bill or post-coupon bill.
5. You drink alcohol like a fish drinks water at home and at parties but opt for water with lemon at restaurants. You're not fooling anyone.
6. You've been known to reach into your pants and add the coin change you find to the tip on your way out the door. Feeling guilty, huh?

I'll roll with you on most of these except number 3. If a waiter is a piece of work, I'll be sure to stick it to him/her, handle tipping the busboy myself and let the manager know on the way out.

 

[Sarcastic]

Looking at this thread reminded me of Foxworth's redneck routine. Some of you guys don't even realize you're bad tippers! Some of you think that you're actually decent. I'll help you out.

You just might be a poor tipper if:

1. You can say unequivocally right now that you tip within a certain range without knowing the restaurant or the bill. Really? You tip between 15 and 40 bucks when go to Applebees or to GW Fins?
2. You tip below 20% for any meal consumed at a restaurant.
3. You tip based on service. As long as the service was provided you pay at least 20% for it. Whether or not they smiled is irrelevant, but feel free to tip more if they did.
4. You tip based off of pre-tax bill or post-coupon bill.
5. You drink alcohol like a fish drinks water at home and at parties but opt for water with lemon at restaurants. You're not fooling anyone.
6. You've been known to reach into your pants and add the coin change you find to the tip on your way out the door. Feeling guilty, huh?

I'm down with all of that except 5. I can tip 25% but if I order water I'm a bad tipper? Cheap maybe. I tip well...sometimes too well according to friends, but refusing to pay 7 bucks for a mixed drink at a restaurant that sells 10 dollar entrees is not cheap, it's common sense. Especially when I have a 12-dollar bottle of Jack at home.

And I'm still tipping 30% on most days, so...

 

[v3kt0r]

I went out to the new Fridays with the fam last night and the food and service was horrible. I know they've just opened, but they didn't even meet my low expectations of a TGI Fridays.

$4 tip on a $50 bill.

 

[antipop]

Looking at this thread reminded me of Foxworth's redneck routine. Some of you guys don't even realize you're bad tippers! Some of you think that you're actually decent. I'll help you out.

You just might be a poor tipper if:

1. You can say unequivocally right now that you tip within a certain range without knowing the restaurant or the bill. Really? You tip between 15 and 40 bucks when go to Applebees or to GW Fins?
2. You tip below 20% for any meal consumed at a restaurant.
3. You tip based on service. As long as the service was provided you pay at least 20% for it. Whether or not they smiled is irrelevant, but feel free to tip more if they did.
4. You tip based off of pre-tax bill or post-coupon bill.
5. You drink alcohol like a fish drinks water at home and at parties but opt for water with lemon at restaurants. You're not fooling anyone.
6. You've been known to reach into your pants and add the coin change you find to the tip on your way out the door. Feeling guilty, huh?

seriously?? Jeff Foxworthless??

lol @ tipping based on service....i mean, isn't that the point??

 

[LSSpam]

So what's a proper tip when a meal is comped by the restaurant owner?

Depends on the comp. But keep in mind that if it was the servers fault, for instance they punched in the wrong order, they're going to pay for it in most cases. That is, if you asked for Sea Bass and they got you a burger, they'll pay for the burger. That doesn't mean they deserve a tip, it's just something to keep in mind. Your conscience.

If it's a comp for anything other then server error, you tip at least the normal tip from what the bill would have been.

 

[LSSpam]

Looking at this thread reminded me of Foxworth's redneck routine. Some of you guys don't even realize you're bad tippers! Some of you think that you're actually decent. I'll help you out.

You just might be a poor tipper if:

1. You can say unequivocally right now that you tip within a certain range without knowing the restaurant or the bill. Really? You tip between 15 and 40 bucks when go to Applebees or to GW Fins?
2. You tip below 20% for any meal consumed at a restaurant.
3. You tip based on service. As long as the service was provided you pay at least 20% for it. Whether or not they smiled is irrelevant, but feel free to tip more if they did.
4. You tip based off of pre-tax bill or post-coupon bill.
5. You drink alcohol like a fish drinks water at home and at parties but opt for water with lemon at restaurants. You're not fooling anyone.
6. You've been known to reach into your pants and add the coin change you find to the tip on your way out the door. Feeling guilty, huh?

I put myself through most of college as a server, at some very nice restaurants with some very rich alumni who ordered very hefty bills. So I can speak with some authority about how ******* stupid what you wrote was

In response to:

3. Tipping based on service is fundamental. That's the ******* point. You tip based on service. If I did a ****** job serving you, **** it, I didn't earn the tip. Don't give it to me so that when someone does provide good service you actually tip well. If you don't tip based on service, it penalizes good service as much as it rewards bad service.

5. Huh? So if you drink alcohol at home you're required to drink at a restaurant? That's ******* stupid. Someone should poke you in the eye for such a stupid remark. Sometimes I drink so damn much at home all I want is water at a restaurant because I'm recouping. Sometimes I just don't feel like booze. I'm not going to order a drink just to elevate my servers tip. I can't even begin to describe how dumb this comment was.

6. I add coin change out of my pocket, not because I feel guilty but because I hate coin change in my pocket. If the server doesn't want it, they can toss it with the left over mashed potatoes. But they'll take it. I always did.




Let me be clear about my server experience

1) I took a ton of pride in providing good service. Doing a good job is it's own reward. I loved being the leader in reservation requests.

2) That said, sometimes I did a ****** job. For a lot of reasons. Bad day, bad hostess who ****ed up seating, bad work by the kitchen, just my own inattention. Didn't happen often, but it happens. Everyone has a bad day for whatever reasons. Never once did I expect a table I did a poor job on to tip me. Why the **** should they? That's dumb.

3) Bad tips aren't something I complained about. Granted I didn't work at Chilis...but that's why I didn't work at Chilis. Bad tips really arent the issue people think they are. Sure sometimes you get 15%, not 20%, but whatever. That's not worth crying about.

90% of the problem servers at good restaurants have with customers has nothing to do with tips. It has to do with **** like 8 people asking for 8 separate tickets, ordering in a horribly disjointed fashion, asking for stupid mixed drinks that take forever for the bar to put out and then constantly changing your arcane drink orders, filling up on bread and ordering jackshirt entree-wise because your friends didn't tell you what the restaurant cost before you agreed to go, hang around ordering water for an hour past ordering anything with monetary value, etc.


Honestly, if you're a "low-work" table so to speak, tip me 15% or better if I do a good job, I don't give a **** if you only order 40 bucks for a table of 2 when the average is 80. Give me your 6 or 7 dollar tip. Fine with me. I love you. You didn't stress me out that night. I got to pay attention to the table of 6 drunk *** lawyers who ordered 4 bottles of wine because you were easy on me. Cool dude. I didn't expect you to order a 5 martinis, tip 20%, and not drop an extra 36 cents on the table with the 5 and the 1. That's not my beef. I promise you.

 

[zatsnzapps]

Granted I didn't work at Chilis

That would have been one helluva commute from Oxford to Petal.

 

[RazorSaint]

"learn to ******' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big ******' surprise"

/don't really believe it but obligatory in a tipping thread and I love the scene

 

[soupcan dan]

my lovely wife and i had a few drinks and sandwiches last night at the pub. horrendous service (missed items, slow service, way too chatty, filthy water glass) . bill came to $42.40.

handed her $60 and requested change.

i got back 17 ones.

i dont know what or if she was thinking
, but i'm sure the $5 bill i left stumped her even more.

 

[Bayouboy]

livefromDC thinks you are a bad tipper!

 

[SWJJ]

my lovely wife and i had a few drinks and sandwiches last night at the pub. horrendous service (missed items, slow service, way too chatty, filthy water glass) . bill came to $42.40.

handed her $60 and requested change.

i got back 17 ones.

i dont know what or if she was thinking
, but i'm sure the $5 bill i left stumped her even more.

While I think ~10% is reasonable for poor service, were you put off that she did not bring the coin change?

I still moonlight in the service industry and it was my primary employment for years in college. I have almost never given coin change. No one has ever said anything about it.

 

[Mr.Blonde]

While I think ~10% is reasonable for poor service, were you put off that she did not bring the coin change?

I still moonlight in the service industry and it was my primary employment for years in college. I have almost never given coin change. No one has ever said anything about it.

I think he just didn't want 17 ones. I would've have rounded up and just given 18 bucks back with a mix of fives and ones.

 

[buzd]

A lot of servers keep their own bank. Maybe she was just out of fives and tens?

Odd that she wouldn't mention it, though - "sorry about all the ones... "

 

[Mr.Blonde]

A lot of servers keep their own bank. Maybe she was just out of fives and tens?

Ask the bartender or another server.