TIPS

[Clouded Sky]

California is the first of that case that I've ever heard of. As has been stated many times, most people working in this industry need their tips to get by. I've been on the back end. Not getting paid what I should. Getting pissed when I was stiffed. That's what people don't seem to understand. Even some of you on here. People need these. (Apart from California, I guess.)

I can speak for the other side as well. I'm in Japan right now where there is no tipping custom. However, prices on food seem to be slightly higher - the service is figured into the prices to begin with.

Personally, I think this system is better, because it makes the "tip" necessary, whether you think about it or not. We could do the same thing in the states, but you couldn't call it the "service fee". People would get quite angry. It's really a system that's hard to get out of. You start charging more, and the people who get good deals by not tipping will start to complain.

I think I'm making sense?

Anyway, I always tip 20% unless something goes really bad. If they don't work up to a standard they're expected, they don't receive the the money they've expected.

[Momiji]

My cousin, who is a waitress, came to live with us recently. She sometimes complains when it's a slow night (she works at a fancy Italian restaurant) because she doesn't make much in tips, and she isn't getting paid nearly enough for the double-shifts she always works.

Seriously, the poor girl often works from 11am to 10pm, just so she can afford to go to college. So when she isn't working, she's in class or sleeping.

[KH-Cloudy]

When I'm at my friend's house and they order pizza, they usually give how much the total is and ask them to keep the change.

What if your total comes out to $19.99?

Sadness for the delivery person

[Avarice-ness]

I give 10$ everytime unless the bill is more than 70$, then I tip 15$ or 20$.

Bad waiters get a 3$ tip. =D

[Loony BoB]

I don't understand why anyone would tip for bad service.

[Bunny]

Because it could be a really busy night or the server could be having a really bad day or about a hundred other reasons that would make it understandable to have bad service.

[Aerith's Knight]

I usually tip 25%, but have been known to tip 50%.

I'm one of those freaks who tips way too much. ^_^'

But I always enjoy the smiles I get when they realize how much money they can make off of me.

[Peegee]

Tipping is a cultural phenomenon and thus there's no 'objective' or 'good' reason to do it.

My general opinion is that minimum wage is crappy enough as it is, and so (and especially if) getting paid less than that warrants me to pay a little more. It never amounts to much anyway -- the last time I paid a 15+ dollar tip was years ago.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Sometimes it is not even the server's fault. There could be a problem in the kitchen too (among a million other things). Also, servers usually tip out. At work, they tip out to the bussers and the bar. Some places tip out to the kitchens as well. So yeah, between the tip outs and taxes, it ca b hard to make any decent money if they are poorly tip. I know the servers at work have been tipped poorly before and it is not because they gave bad service either.

If I notice it is busy then I will tip good still. I understand well enough being overloaded. Like once me and my friend went to a restaurant and the computers were down, it was busy and they were getting audited by the franchise. Yeah, not cool day for them. The waiter was nice and all and apologized and me and my friend were like, we understand. Then we gave a nice tip.

One complaint I have heard from servers is that students will go "Sorry, I'd tip but I am a student". I think that's dumb. If I go out to eat, I make sure I have enough to tip too. Can't tip, won't bother. I am a poor student too, so I really don't see their point.

[Rocket Edge]

We don't tip out here, not unless your at a fancy restaurant or if you really go out of your way to help someone. When I was over in the states I sub-consciously had this mindset and tipped like Mr. Pink until friends of mine told me to tip more.

[Rye]

I also tip well. Class ALL the way. I even give $5 tips to the Subway delivery guy on campus who only has like, a 2 minute drive to my dorm. If a college student with no income at the moment can afford to tip well, anyone can. If you can't tip, get your butt over to Burger King or something.

The only time I won't tip well is if the WAITER/WAITRESS was terrible, which is so rare. If the food was bad or something, I still tip average because it's not their fault. Anyone who refuses tips to waiters and waitresses themselves because the restaurant is good, but they were still waited on well is an asshole of the highest degree and needs to try to work in a customer service job so that they learn. Waiters and waitresses make the worst wages out of any job, except for sweatshop workers, and they NEED tips to make a living.

I won't dine with people who do the above. I will walk out, embarrassed, or I'll give the waiter/waitress a bigger tip privately and apologize for my friends.

[Loony BoB]

As far as I'm concerned if the manager doesn't want to pay them minimum wage and they aren't capable of carrying out a decent service then that's not my problem, that's the problem of the idiot who decided to work at a place where they're not going to get tipped because everyone around them sucks.

Also, I suffer stressful situations on a regular basis but I don't get stressed. Do I earn anything extra for that? No. I don't. So if the waiter is stressed then again, that's his problem. I'm not going to pay him for it. Get a new job!

[Rye]

BoB, most people who work in those situations are teenagers who really CAN'T get another job, because it's their starter job to get into better things, like office jobs and such. They deserve money for their hard work and stress too. ;;

[Loony BoB]

Why don't they get a job at a supermarket, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King or somewhere else that pays minimum wage?

If it's the only place in the entire town that they are able to get a job at and they are still stressed then again, that's not my problem and I shouldn't have to pay extra for it. If they just increased the price of the food by a minimal amount then the stores could pay them above minimum wage but they don't. I'd be interested in knowing what a waiter/waitress would prefer, actually - working below minimum wage with tips, or working minimum wage with all tips for service going towards management only. Because surely they would collect a fair sum throughout the day, if they can even manage a good service for a few tables in the hour.

[edczxcvbnm]

I hate tipping and I tip low. Hell, here in Illinois, minimum wage is 4.65 for a waiter and 7.75 normally. I don't think I should ever give anything more than a 3 dollar tip for expected service. That 3 bucks gets them to minimum wage from just me when they are serving other tables as well. Sorry the industry you work in is smurfed up but tips are suppose to be for awesome service and not standard service.

I always go pick up pizza when I order it because there are no extra charges and I don't have to tip. Pizza delivery is :skull::skull::skull::skull::skull::skull::skull::skull:.

Very rarely do I get outstanding service.