we live in a meritocracy: you treat me well, i'll reward you. you forget to refill my water or bring me cold bread, well it'll reflect in your tip.
I wonder how many careers are limited due to over pay. Back in the eighties I had a house with an appartment on the side of it. The girl that was renting it was a watress and she was making about $20 per day plus $100 in tips. That's $30,000 per year. If she quit and went to engineering school, four years later she could have gotten an engineering job at about $28,000. Was society doing her a service or disservice by paying her so well for a no qualification labor job? On a side note, I got talked into taking the family on a cruise. Now I am informed that we need to tip at $10 to $15 per day per person per day. I am heading for a tip bill of $360 to people who have their room and board already coverd!!
Depending on the place, I'll start at up to 100%, provided what I purchased is really cheap. There is a sports bar I frequent with friends, often I only want a thing of potato chips and a drink. Its like $3 and I'll tip another $2. But no way in hell I'm tipping $20 for a $100 meal, thats ridiculous. I always think tips= how much time they actually spent working for me. Restaurants should have to pay more than $2 an hour in the US. I'm tired of paying for their cost of business.
Yeah not only we have to tip but we also have to do the math... Make it easy for me - write down how much the bill should be with tip of 10%, 15% and 20%. Some restaurants do this nowadays... In California state tax is 7.5% so I just double the tax. (Yeah I had troubles when going to a different state and doubling the 3% tax leaving only a 6% tip heheh)
I think Orange County is 7.75% so I just take 10% (my 4th grade daughter can do that math) and bump it up if they were good and good is just showing up at the table at the right times.
I usually tip around 10-15 %. However i give it a skip if the service has been poor. Besides if they have a charged a huge service charge on the bill i avoid giving tips.
Tips are not at all common here in Australia, in the circles I move in anyway (maybe in high class places, rich people's haunts, I don't know)... and I'm glad I don't have to worry about it! A friend of mine was working as a valet car parking attendant, for fairly wealthy clients usually, and they would sometimes give him a tip... anywhere from a less than a dollar in loose change, up to $20 I think he got once. Usually (not that it was all that often) he would get a dollar. Not that I eat out often, but service is usually ok, and I think people here tend to give good service because they wouldn't have a job for long if they didn't, not in expectation of maybe getting a tip. Or sometimes because they take pride in doing a good job.
I only tip the drink girls from my local poker/snooker club. First of all half of them go to my uni and they are hot and secondly their wage is quite crap so they have to rely on tips. Oh and pizza boys too. Apart from that all the food places i go to pay their staff enough anyway. The cheeky sunshines can go without my tip.
15% for decent service, 20% for excellent and deduct 2 or 3 percentage points for any big mistakes that the server makes. Really horrible service doesn't deserve any tip but that is very rare.
i usually tip 10% for service that I would expect. If I get better/worse service I vary it accordingly..
I don't tip by percentages. $5 - Awesome $4 - Not bad $3 - Could do better $2 - You need to put more effort into <job> $1 - Quit, you don't need to work there $0 - Hope ya get fired for being rude/obnoxious/etc. .. Something along those lines.
Cool! I'll start using this and slightly modify it: $5 - Awesome $4 - Not bad $3 - Could do better $2 - You need to put more effort into <job> $1 - Quit, you don't need to work there $0.02 - Hope ya get fired for being rude/obnoxious/etc. (2 cents gets the point across - means "No, I didn't forget")
I'm anywhere from 10% to 20%, typically on the higher end. I do believe in lower if the service was very bad. Someone posted they tip 50%. I can't even imagine that, is there drinking involved? I'd be interested to know what people tip fast food deliveries like for Pizza? Do you do the same as in a restaurant?