WTF Restaurants Want Us Top Tip 20% Now?

[Luc1fer]

I thought the whole point of variable tipping was to give the server an incentive to do a great job?

If they are telling everyone to tip 20% they might as well just put the ****ing prices up by that much and save you the hassle.

Should be, but it's a joke now. Waiters expect these tips, regardless of service. The whole system is ridiculous. Think about it, if you tipped someone 10% they would probably sneer at you these days - the correct reaction should be that they're happy to get more than 0%. I'm not blaming the staff, I know in some states they get paid less in expectation of tips - but the system needs to be fixed. And unfortunately the only way to fix it is for people to either stop tipping, restaurants pay correct salaries and restrict large tips, minimum wage laws force it.

[ho_124]

That's why you go eat at Chinese restaurants. Crap service, good food, leave a couple bucks tip and 0 fu*ks given.

[devin45k]

Moves the decimal place crew.

10% is all

[BrahPlease]

I dont tip at all. More money for me.

[RobElite]

I find it crazy that you would have to tip 20%. A tip should be something you do becuse of good service and even then i wouldn't tip 20%.

[BrahPlease]

I dont tip, but if they have good service i will tip $2 MAX. the cost of the food doesnt matter.

[drvillain]

Bodybuilders Against Tipping

I'm a server/waiter


When I approach my table my routine goes like this:

Me: "Hey there, how are we doing today?
them: "good and you"
me: "Good, my name is Drvillain, and I'll be your server today. Real quick, though guys, do any of you lift?"

If they say yes, I instantly stop giving a fuk. I'll put their orders in last, and never refill because I have better things to do. I have maximized my tips with this method, because I can provide even better service to my other non lifting tables.

If I can clearly tell they lift by just looking, I wont even introduce myself. I'll just bring them some water and ask for their order.

I dont tip, but if they have good service i will tip $2 MAX. the cost of the food doesnt matter.

No one likes you

[trs5]

I'm a server/waiter


When I approach my table my routine goes like this:

Me: "Hey there, how are we doing today?
them: "good and you"
me: "Good, my name is Drvillain, and I'll be your server today. Real quick, though guys, do any of you lift?"

If they say yes, I instantly stop giving a fuk. I'll put their orders in last, and never refill because I have better things to do. I have maximized my tips with this method, because I can provide even better service to my other non lifting tables.

Poor service, only 15% for you *******

[GBLynden]

Anyone else fuking HATE when there's a tip line on takeout or at a burrito place or some chit? It's like a fckuking guilt tax, I don't know what to do in this situation

I only tip if the chick is hot helping me and/or I go there often. Even though I often don't since I have a GF most of the time.

This first world entitlement culture is getting out of control.

It really hurts the causes of people that are actually in need and are suffering.

This is true except the latter isn't my problem. People need to start looking out for themselves instead of expecting others to do it for them. The people in the 30's and 40's didn't have the mindset and we shouldn't either.

You potatoes talk about how important it is to save your money then go pissing it away with big tips at restaurants. I never tip above 10 percent.

Truth!

lol @ americans subsidizing restaurant owners & waiters.

who are the socialists now.

It is actually part of support capitalism, but not in the correct sense. A lot of things have been completely messed up over the years by the ignorant in society expecting a living wage by not working for it.

Should be, but it's a joke now. Waiters expect these tips, regardless of service. The whole system is ridiculous. Think about it, if you tipped someone 10% they would probably sneer at you these days - the correct reaction should be that they're happy to get more than 0%. I'm not blaming the staff, I know in some states they get paid less in expectation of tips - but the system needs to be fixed. And unfortunately the only way to fix it is for people to either stop tipping, restaurants pay correct salaries and restrict large tips, minimum wage laws force it.

Or these folks can work towards developing a proper skill set to make money like the rest of us.

GB

[drvillain]

Or these folks can work towards developing a proper skill set to make money like the rest of us.

GB

who says they aren't?

"GB" is on that yellow school bus time

[DasGroceMane]

I never tip. feelsgoodman.jpg

das it mane

[SadBoys]

tip 20% for good service
tip 15% for avg to sub par service

Lol at tipping 15% for bad service. If the service is bad I just leave without paying, ain't nobody gonna see my Benjamins without treating me like a king. If the service was good, they are lucky enough to get their bill paid. If they do their job extremely well and pamper me the whole time I'm there, I'll be so generous to toss them a buck and watch the waiters fight for it, lulz.

No tip crew for life

[Jbooze]

*****://www.********.com/bodybuildersagainsttipping

fukking hell that group is still going strong, strong lols all over the place

[Procta]

[SlimGunz]

lol this is like that DeBeers or whatever 'suggesting' you spend 3 months wages on a ring. It only works if people buy into this chit. And you do. Every time.

[CalmWind]

lol @ americans subsidizing restaurant owners & waiters.

who are the socialists now.

That's a mistaken way of looking at it. In reality, the tipping system adds a Quality control system to our restaurant industry.

If the employees earned a standard wage, then you, sitting at the table in a restaurant, are Faceless Customer #38 of the shift. They still get paid regardless.

By having a Tip system, then you, sitting at the table in a restaurant, are Potential Tipper #38 of the shift. They need to be nice to you and give good service to expect a tip from you.




So, if you look at the Tipping system as a Quality Control feature - it works very well and I gladly pay this tip in order to ensure the Waitress cares. The Waitress' salary is shared between the Restaurant Owner and the Customer, thereby empowering the Customer, so he/she can expect to be treated well.

All of you who have the money to eat out, and tip $0, are being selfish. And if you have a problem with the Waitress potentially earning $20/hour, why don't you quit your job and be a waiter then? Do you think it's fun to be nice to people all day, take orders, and run around bringing people stuff? I wouldn't want to do it, that's for sure.

[SpicyCurrie]

Have only not left a tip once. It just took so long to get my food, drink, even to take my order. Never got a refill. Had to wave her over for our cheques after asking once before.. It just wasn't good at all.


And then a chick I know that works there found out and told me "You made her lose money because she has to split her tips with the kitchen. Because you didn't leave a tip it came out of her pocket." And I laughed and said that I didn't leave a tip, why would she split her wages to makeup for no tip.






Fukkin dumb kont

[Jms89]

I tip in the 10 to 20 percent range, but honestly...i rarely go out to eat. I would much rather cook the food myself than have some heroin addict in the kitchen cooking for me.

[dingler]

I tip 5% for poor service, 25 on avg and maybe 35% if exceptional at avg restruant ~60$ meal, if I go somewhere nice - 100ish I keep it around 15-20%, no waiter deserves more than 20$ for bringing two people their food fuk that, groups are different though

[smoopsy]

10% for decent service
15% for good service
20% for you dun good service

0% for crappy service

[Luc1fer]

Or these folks can work towards developing a proper skill set to make money like the rest of us.

GB

Huh? So nobody waits tables?

[Thiiisguy]

I tip in the 10 to 20 percent range, but honestly...i rarely go out to eat. I would much rather cook the food myself than have some heroin addict in the kitchen cooking for me.

Lmao, you don't know how true this statement is lmao (kitchen brah checking in)

[sword_]

20% is standard for regular service IMO.

[ShutupNdSquat]

Wtf is up with this ****gy tipping culture. Why pay these failures a tip for bringing plates over to your table. THAT IS THEIR JOB. Why should customers have to pay their wages, it is the employers responsibility lmao.

Do you *******s also tip the mailman for bringing you your post? or the delivery driver? The bin man? The milkman? Paper boy?

Lolling still

[sbsponger]

while tipping by percentage is fine, i would limit how much i tip.

get like a bottle of wine or something and the amount you tip goes way up just because the waiter brought out a bottle and filled some glasses

[LashGordon]

If a waiters tips don't make the wage up to minimum wage, the employer has to make it up.

So this whole "they don't even make minimum wage' chit people are always throwing about is bullchit.

If you want more than minimum wage, maybe you shouldn't be a waiter.

[ItsBrettFavre]

Not sure where you've been... I haven't heard of 10% being considered a "good tip" in over 20 years. 10% is considered a mediocre tip (especially if your meal only costed 10 bucks or under), with 15-18% being a good tip, and 20%+ being a great tip.

In all seriousness though, I tend to ignore the percentages unless I'm eating somewhere really expensive and I want to make sure I don't phuck a waiting staff over too badly. If I pay say, 10 bucks at a cheap diner for a meal, I'll give them a much as a $3 tip (30%). if they did a very good job. That said, I'm not giving someone $30 on a silver platter for serving my wife and I a one hundred dollar meal when they did the exact same amount of work as a cheap diner worker, only their chit happens to cost a lot more money - in their case, I'll give them 10 bucks if the service wasn't very good, 15 bucks if it was good, and 20 bucks if the service was GREAT.

Keep in mind that where I'm from, restaurants are required to pay their waiting staff minimum wage already. That's not a great wage, but if you expect me to pay you at a rate of $27.25 bucks an hour for one hour or less of serving me ($20 from tip, the rest minimum wage) in a restaurant, you'd better do a damn good job. And I don't care if the meal costed $10 for a family or $100, I will leave a $0 on the tip line if you do a horse chit serving job, and threaten to spit in my food next time all you want, because there won't be a next time for me at a restaurant that phucked up that badly. There's way too many choices in restaurants to be a repeat customer at one that gives you a terrible first experience.

[LashGordon]

That's a mistaken way of looking at it. In reality, the tipping system adds a Quality control system to our restaurant industry.

If the employees earned a standard wage, then you, sitting at the table in a restaurant, are Faceless Customer #38 of the shift. They still get paid regardless.

By having a Tip system, then you, sitting at the table in a restaurant, are Potential Tipper #38 of the shift. They need to be nice to you and give good service to expect a tip from you.




So, if you look at the Tipping system as a Quality Control feature - it works very well and I gladly pay this tip in order to ensure the Waitress cares. The Waitress' salary is shared between the Restaurant Owner and the Customer, thereby empowering the Customer, so he/she can expect to be treated well.

All of you who have the money to eat out, and tip $0, are being selfish. And if you have a problem with the Waitress potentially earning $20/hour, why don't you quit your job and be a waiter then? Do you think it's fun to be nice to people all day, take orders, and run around bringing people stuff? I wouldn't want to do it, that's for sure.

So what are you suggesting here? That jobs that don't have a tipping system are going to result in staff members not performing their role as they should do?

Surely the idea that if you don't do what's required of you in the role you'll get sacked should be enough motivation.

It's not like replacement waiters are difficult to come by.

The job market suggests there is enough incentive as is to just have a job.

i don't receive tips in my job... i still do my upmost to perform the role to the best of my ability.

[ItsBrettFavre]

I tip based off of how busy it is and quality of service. I won't go over 20%. Ever.

Being unwilling to ever break the 20% threshold is bullchit when you walk into a place and spend like $7 on a meal with a $5 special and a soda, though... that's what, a $1.40 tip for someone who may have quite possibly done just as much work, and possibly a better job than someone whose cheapest bill at a Red Lobster (just an example) or some chit is going to be almost $20 for one person, giving them a $4 tip instead automatically for the same amount of work?

That's bullchit, man. I stick to percentages pretty closely on spendy meals, but am willing to go over them for great service at inexpensive places.

[drvillain]

while tipping by percentage is fine, i would limit how much i tip.

get like a bottle of wine or something and the amount you tip goes way up just because the waiter brought out a bottle and filled some glasses

that's because in California, servers are taxed based upon how much they sold