Tips

[Dingo Jellybean]

When you eat out at a sit-in-non-fast-food-restaurant, what do you usually give for a tip for good service?

I usually drop about $5. I don't believe in 15% gratuity, that's simply too much...damn French. I ate at Genghis Khan restaurant in Crown Casino in Melbourne last year and the bill was a whopping $2500 AU(at the time, about $1300 US). Imagine paying a 15% gratuity for that.

[Meat Puppet]

I only tip when I receive good service, and the amount that is tipped also depends on that.

[TheAbominatrix]

Even though I dont agree with tipping (don't get on me Reservoir Dogs style, and yes, waitresses here make minimu wage), because it's such an unfair thing. We tip waitresses who bring us our food, but we don't tip the people who teach our children... or, if we want to get into money issues, other people who work minimum wage in just as difficult jobs...

Anyway, I usually do tip, simply out of courtesy. I use the same system as my dad... when I sit down to eat, I estimate a tip in my head, three dollars for instance. Everytime the waiter is right there, filling my drink or asking about things or whatever, the tip goes up. Everytime I have to sit without a drink for a while, or I'm blatantly ignored, it goes down. It's gone all the way away at Denny's once, what with everyone ignoring us. Jerks.

[Zante]

I usualy round it up to the 100 or 50.

[Big D]

Tipping is virtually unknown in my country, it's just never been a part of the national culture.
So, I've never actually tipped anyone. If I did venture into a country that tips, though, I'd be sure to do some research in advance, and work out what's customary.
In some German restaurants, I believe, the menu includes a recommended tip value for each dish. Very nifty.:twocents:

[kikimm]

In some German restaurants, I believe, the menu includes a recommended tip value for each dish. Very nifty.

Yep, thats right.


If I'm feeling lazy, there's this card that my family tkaes with us everywhere that has the recommended tip thing on it, depending on what your food costs. But mostly, I just do the whole 15% thing, maybe 20% if the service is really good. I haven't gone anywhere that's been super expensive, so it hasn't been a problem.


:D

[escobert]

Even though I dont agree with tipping (don't get on me Reservoir Dogs style, and yes, waitresses here make minimu wage), because it's such an unfair thing. We tip waitresses who bring us our food, but we don't tip the people who teach our children... or, if we want to get into money issues, other people who work minimum wage in just as difficult jobs...


Here in vermont waiters/waitresses make less then minimum wage so they pretty much live off the tips. I dont usually pay for much food besides mcdonalds or taco bell so I hardly tip. Excpet when I'm with my mom and she needs some ones or something I'll help out.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I tip big. Because I want big tips. It's karma, man.

[Triple T]

I usualy round it up to the 100 or 50.

That's... a lot! :o

Anyway, I usually tip depending on what I bought. If it costs 5$, I'd tip 2$, but if it was 30$+ I'd tip just 5$. :p

[Shlup]

Even though I dont agree with tipping (don't get on me Reservoir Dogs style, and yes, waitresses here make minimu wage), because it's such an unfair thing. We tip waitresses who bring us our food, but we don't tip the people who teach our children... or, if we want to get into money issues, other people who work minimum wage in just as difficult jobs...

Anyway, I usually do tip, simply out of courtesy. I use the same system as my dad... when I sit down to eat, I estimate a tip in my head, three dollars for instance. Everytime the waiter is right there, filling my drink or asking about things or whatever, the tip goes up. Everytime I have to sit without a drink for a while, or I'm blatantly ignored, it goes down. It's gone all the way away at Denny's once, what with everyone ignoring us. Jerks.
Ditto that, really. What really irks me is tip jars at places. I suppose I would put something in if I ordered something really complicated, but I am not giving anyone a tip for just any smoothie.

[Rase]

I base my tip on three things:
Promptness
Waiter Additude
Food

[Shoeberto]

I tip pizza boys well. Usually because it's my parents money.
"Alright, that'll be $12."
*hands over $20* "Keep tha change, yo. Gimme my pizza."

[edczxcvbnm]

I try my damn best to tip a buck and only a buck(maybe not even). If the service was above and beyond what it should have been...then they get a real tip from me. I don't really believe in giving tips just to give them. Here is the Steve-Graph-O'tips

Shitty Service = a penny just to show you that yes I remembered to tip and that they sucked.

Normal Service = A buck. They did what they were suppose to do so I guess they should get something.

Good-excellent service = 15-25% depending on how rich I am at said time. They did a damn good job and I am going to let them know it. I love waiters who come into the conversation halfway in and just jump in. Makes everything so much better and kick ass.

I also don't like tipping people who deliever stuff to my house. They are getting payed to do that in the first place and only that. They don't take my order or ask if everything is okay. They just bring it to me. On top of most places already add a few bucks onto the bill for a delivery charge. :love::love::love::love: THE DELIVERY PEOPLE. If they :love::love::love::love:ed with my food then I will not accept it and call up the resturant and complain.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Why the hell woud you play 1300 clams for a meal?

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I also don't like tipping people who deliever stuff to my house. They are getting payed to do that in the first place and only that. They don't take my order or ask if everything is okay. They just bring it to me. On top of most places already add a few bucks onto the bill for a delivery charge. :love::love::love::love: THE DELIVERY PEOPLE. If they :love::love::love::love:ed with my food then I will not accept it and call up the resturant and complain.
Or do they? WHen I'm not taking a delivery, I'm taking orders, and/or making the food. You make me sad, sir.
I get seventy-five cents for gas. That's not effecient enough for a tip.

A tip is a form of graditude. That's why I get pissed off when people don't tip. Because it's basically a slap in the face, that I drove all the way to you asshole trailer to bring you your food because you're too damn lazy to get your fat ass up and drive to the damn pizza place, and I get crap.
"Oh it's what you're supposed to do! You should be happy with the pay you get!" No, I'm not happy with the pay I get because the pay I get SUCKS. That's why I decided to become a driver. I expect tips to be part of my pay.

I'd love you jerks who are too cheap to tip to become a waiter or a driver for a day. Then you'd understand how important they are. Wieners.

Seriously. People like you piss me off.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Spiff, ordered a pizza that cost about 8.50 total and I handed the guy a ten and said keep the change for a tip. Is that well enough?

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Yes.

Of course I would have tipped him another eight, but that's because I'm a badass rockstar. And I can sympathize with him. Y'know.

I usually go with ten percent being a reasonable tip for me. If it's $10, a buck'll do. If it's $498., Oh you better believe I'm expecting $50. Cause that's a shit load of pizza.

[edczxcvbnm]

Sorry but I use to work in a place that delivered also and that is all those people did. They didn't take the order, make the food or even package it up. That .75 needs to be raised with gas the way it is now. 2 years ago that was half a gallon and thus enough but not any more.

I know it is graditude for my food being delivered but when I am charged a few bucks more just because it is being delievered that graditude I might have had went out the window.

I generally don't get delivery though and just carry out because it is cheaper overall for me to drive there and pick it up with out tip and without the extra charge.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

It's not the driver's fault there's a delivery charge. >:O

Personally, I'd do away with it for the massive ammount of people who think the delivery charge is the tip. GRAHR.

[edczxcvbnm]

Could you please explain what that few dollars is for? I assume all of it goes to gas for the driver so that they don't have to pay for gas. I also assume since it is a few dollars(not too sure exactly how much it is) not all of it can be for gas so the rest is probably a tip for the driver already built in. I know thats not how it works but I can't seem to find any reasons why it doesn't work that way.

[Shoeberto]

The driver's pay, maybe?

[Polaris]

I only tip when I receive good service, and the amount that is tipped also depends on that.

Here in Portugal we don't have that kind of stuffs, but 4 ex. when two guys were at my house screwing a bookshelf we gave him a good tip... :rolleyes2

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Could you please explain what that few dollars is for? I assume all of it goes to gas for the driver so that they don't have to pay for gas. I also assume since it is a few dollars(not too sure exactly how much it is) not all of it can be for gas so the rest is probably a tip for the driver already built in. I know thats not how it works but I can't seem to find any reasons why it doesn't work that way.
Got me. The delivery charge for us is $1.50. Half goes to us for gas, and the rest goes tot he company for whatever.

[Giggles]

I tip my pizza boy. I tip him even more because I hear about Spiff's terrible non-tips :o

[Cz]

I'd like to take a 'Mr. Pink' attitude to tipping, but in reality I'm too scared of getting dirty looks from waitresses.

In reality, I tip around 10%, rounding up to the nearest pound if I've received good service, and rounding down if I've received poor service.

[Giga Guess]

I try to tip generously IF and only if my server acts like I'm worth his or her time. Mainly because my Mom was a waitress, and raising 3 kids on a tip jar...I sympathize with the servers. I am also a very understanding person. If the place is stacked, I understand if my food is late, and the server isn't there as often as s/he should be. HOWEVER, if I'm offered drinks once, get the food tossed (As in hurled, albeit lightly. It has been done to me), and generally treated poorly, you ain't gonna get nuthin' from me. And I never order delivery, so that facet is a mystery to me.

[Logan]

My dad does the 15% thing. I don't know how to do that, so I just tip with whatever seems right. One time I gave a pizza guy ten dollars and he seemed surprised/happy.

[Giga Guess]

How much was the order?

[Calliope]

I don't tip, but I make dadaist art out of my leftovers and the cutlery, and occasionally accompany it with notes scrawled on serviettes to the management :D

[Del Murder]

I'll tip based on service, like if the waiter gets me a fresh glass with fresh ice for a drink refill, rather than refilling my already watered down glass. Other things like promptness and frendliness count, though it's only a matter of a couple bucks really. I give a minimum of ten percent. In the US tipping is pretty much expected and restaurants actually consider that in their prices and wages. If tipping were outlawed, we'd just face higher menu prices.

For pizza boys/girls I'll usually round up to the nearest dollar and add a buck on top of that. I'm not going to pay an extra 3 bucks just because the guy had to carry two more pizzas to/from his car. 20 pizzas I can see, but I've never ordered that many. Anyway, you got to give them at least something.

[Logan]

How much was the order?
11 or 12 dollars.

[-N-]

10% then add a buck - or - double the tax. Whichever's easier to calculate. If paying by card round off such that the cost of the tip plus cost of meal is an even dollar amount.

[nik0tine]

My parents do most of the tipping as i rarely go out anywhere to eat without them.
However if and when i do tip, it all depends on the service. If i get crappy service, ill give like a nickle, jsut as to let them know they suck. Ill tip normally if the service is good, or if its great ill tip even better. and if the waitress is really hot i will tip higher because im dumb like that.

[MecaKane]

When I get a haircut it's 12.40 or something, so if I'm paying with cash, I give 15 and that's that, if it's debit I'll tell her to put on an exta two dollars.
I never ordered a pizza, myself, or even at my house I think. We live pretty close to a few places, and stuff.

[Giga Guess]

11 or 12 dollars.


BWAH!!!! If I got $10 as a tip for that, I'd fall to my knees and cry! And then I'd ask you to reconsider. Most honorable servers would not accept that unless you insisted (I'm not a server, but if I was, anyways...) At least no one can call you stingy!

[Anaralia]

I know that around here servers make like, 2 bucks an hour, so I always tip at least 15%. I tip more if we hold up the table for too long, or if we order cheap stuff and 15% of the bill comes out to like, 2 bucks (it’s not the waiter’s fault I just wanted water and my friend didn’t want dessert).
I give the pizza guy about 5-10% because I always assumed that the delivery charge was his "tip", but this thread has debunked that theory, so I'll tip more from now on.

[Zante]

That's... a lot! :o

Not realy, the Slovak currency isn't worth much.