Tips

[GhostCredit]

Waitress asked me for a tip after spending $127 at dennys. First time I heard that... I felt disgusted once I heard that. It's disrespectful at least to me, I don't know about you guys but I shouldn't pay someone wage. Asking for tips while you're working, it just despise me. If you ask, it's a automatic no. I have to want to give you a tip, it's out of the heart, not forced cause you asked for it. When I went to Japan, some of the food was cheap and they never once asked for tips. Idk, I think it depends on the person. 

There was this chinese waitress one time my dad was eating in downtown and after he was done, she chase after him for a tip. It's crazy, I never understood it...

[GreatLife]

I grew up in a town that oddly had a Chinese restaurant on the 2nd floor of a residential apartment building. Teenagers would go there for takeout and if we didn't tip enough to their liking an older lady would yell at us to get out - then chase us down a long hallway, down a staircase, out of the bldg, then halfway down the street..and SCREAMING the entire time! We weren't even giving chump change tips. Food was so good we kept putting up with that crap until finally we all got old enough to get on a bus and eat elsewhere. 

Now about Denny's.. when eating out spouse and I prefer to leave cash tips at the table. We went to a Denny's and at checkout the cashier called over a manager. He demanded to know "what's the problem that we aren't adding a tip to our bill"? I was offended, but my spouse just calmly replied "maybe you should ask your waitress that's over there right now clearing our table". 

[Anonymous]

I will tip or not based on the merit of the service.

And the cost of the food I am brought has no bearing on the tip.
I am not doubling my tip if I was brought a $50 meal as opposed to a $25 meal.

If a tip is automatically added to a receipt: the best possible outcome is I never go to that establishment again.

Asking for a tip means less tip than I was going to leave, or no tip at all.

[MarkintheHV]

I too am growing weary of an out of control tipping culture.  I have a simple solution....if I am standing up to order my food, I will not be leaving a tip.  As far as wait staff serving me at the table, I no longer tip 15%,18% or 25%.  I will tip solely based on the servers performance.  If the tip is automatically added to my bill, then that is the tip as far as I am concerned.    

[ptatohed]

I don't mind tipping, I just wish it was still the 10% of the good ol' days.  I remember when it went to 15%.  Now it starts at 18%.  

[coldfusion]

Just keep in mind that in the US the pay rate for servers and related staff in resturants is structured so that they get a very low base pay rate that via a legal exemption is less than the standard minimum wage, so they rely on tips for the majority of their income.  If you cut back or omit a tip for whatever reason, even if the issue wasn't related to the service, the restauront still gets all of their money and it's the servers and  whatever othe related waitstaff like the bussers who may share in the tip pool that take the hit.  So yeah don't be surprised if you get quizzed about what the issue was if you leave a small or no tip.....

Technically I could get called out at work by corporate bean counters for a policy violation if I left a tip larger than 15% for a business-related meal although I never got called out for it.

Culturally outside the US in some areas of the world offering a tip can sometimes be seen as an insult as it's taken as an inference that you think they need to be paid extra in order to do their job well so when traveling outside the US to areas that aren't either tourist traps or frequented by US business travelers it's a good idea to research local customs beforehand.

[pizzadude]

Moving to Smorgasboard

[ptatohed]

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@pizzadude wrote:

Moving to Smorgasboard

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I was wondering what this had to do with Relationships and Money!  

[ptatohed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ