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NUSouth

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Slow football time of year so I wanted to see some opinions on a couple tipping situations.

One is common to fast food and pizza carry out where on your credit card receipt there is a space to add a tip.

The other is when a waiter takes your order and you don't see them again until they bring the check. So, other waiters are providing the service up to delivery of the check.

My opinion is a tip is a reward for good service, and if you can't tell who provided the service you don't tip. Any other opinions ?
 
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What about tipping at McDonalds and Burger King?
And now food booths at markets and festivals have tip booths too.
How about tow truck drivers? Or auto mechanics? Photographers?
I used to tip my barber but now I cut my own hair.
And I was always told 15% was the norm, but now some people say 20%.
I will normally tip a busker if they are decent.
But that Prince wannabe will never see a penny from me.
 
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NUSouth said:
Slow football time of year so I wanted to see some opinions on a couple tipping situations.

One is common to fast food and pizza carry out where on your credit card receipt there is a space to add a tip.

The other is when a waiter takes your order and you don't see them again until they bring the check. So, other waiters are providing the service up to delivery of the check.

My opinion is a tip is a reward for good service, and if you can't tell who provided the service you don't tip. Any other opinions ?
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I don't typically go places that expect a tip. Just not my style.
 
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It's strange to me that there is a sect of the economy that has a different minimum wage than the rest with the expectation that the customer out of the goodness of their heart makes up the difference or more (yes, I'm oversimplifying). Point being, if you advertise a price, why am I expected to pay more beyond that advertised price (plus tax)?

I lived overseas for a short period where tipping was not customary (and at some places, considered insulting). Were the prices higher than normal to pay employees more? Yes. But then that was all you were expected to pay, and I'm happier doing it compared to not playing a game.

Nonetheless, I do tip.

 
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NUSouth said:
Slow football time of year so I wanted to see some opinions on a couple tipping situations.

One is common to fast food and pizza carry out where on your credit card receipt there is a space to add a tip.

The other is when a waiter takes your order and you don't see them again until they bring the check. So, other waiters are providing the service up to delivery of the check.

My opinion is a tip is a reward for good service, and if you can't tell who provided the service you don't tip. Any other opinions ?
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Just the tip never worked well for me.
 
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I tip on service. If I have to ask you for something like a refill of my drink, or for something you didn't bring me from my order, you're going to see closer to 10 percent.

20 percent you better be exceptional

15 percent to 20 percent what I would expect out of a server in a tipping joint

I know if someone else delivers my food that **** has been sitting done in the kitchen for far too long.

If you think I'm an ***, finr, and yes I have worked in food service, busboy, dishwasher, and fast food
 
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JohnRossEwing

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So...you have a 30 dollar bill coming and your great stance is...

Great service gets 6 dollars
Average service get 4.5 dollars
Poor service gets 3 dollars

I don't care where you worked and the work you did...but let me help you not be a taint...

If you are that worried about it here are your options according to me.

1. Tip 5 dollars no matter what on that 30 dollar tab
2. Don't go out to a place that has waiters/waitresses
 
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HBK4life said:
Don't like bathroom attendants. I don't need someone to watch me pee and hand me a towel. Then expect a tip.
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Never been to Harrod's department store in London I take it. The attendant in their restrooms goes in and disinfects the seat and cleans the toilet before he'll let you enter. Well worth the pound or two it costs to have the attendant. Then he moves a discreet distance away from your closed stall ready to freshen the place you just soiled. You can't tip that guy enough IMO.
 
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dinglefritz said:
Never been to Harrod's department store in London I take it. The attendant in their restrooms goes in and disinfects the seat and cleans the toilet before he'll let you enter. Well worth the pound or two it costs to have the attendant. Then he moves a discreet distance away from your closed stall ready to freshen the place you just soiled. You can't tip that guy enough IMO.
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I'll bet you need a doily spread out on the toilet seat for you to poop.

Pardon me, do you have any grey poupon?
 
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dinglefritz said:
Never been to Harrod's department store in London I take it. The attendant in their restrooms goes in and disinfects the seat and cleans the toilet before he'll let you enter. Well worth the pound or two it costs to have the attendant. Then he moves a discreet distance away from your closed stall ready to freshen the place you just soiled. You can't tip that guy enough IMO.
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Nope. Only time I would need toilet disinfected is if I'm going to do a line of yayo off the tank.Winking
 
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I'll bet you need a doily spread out on the toilet seat for you to poop.

Pardon me, do you have any grey poupon?
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No but IF you had ever seen the poop smeared toilets of public restrooms in London you would gladly pay the pound or two to have a clean one. It was a revelation to me. I've used plenty of outhouses and many a log when hiking or camping but nothing is as revolting to me as a public bathroom with poop and piss all over the toilet seat and floor. I've seen it smeared on walls etc.
 
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I normally tip 20 percent at restaurants. We don’t have state income tax here in Washington so they tax everything else. Our local sales tax is 8.4 %. In Seattle it’s 10.1%. So I gladly tip 20% of the pretax cost of the meal but I don’t pay 20% of the bill after sales tax is added. Why should the state get tipped? (I’ve had all the discussions with waitstaff and of course they don’t agree, but I am sticking to my guns on this one. Besides if it is a really good dinner and good service they get even more than 20%. Six of us were on a boys ski trip this winter and we ate at a pretty fun place known for their prime rib. Between all the extra service we wanted and all the drinks we ran our young waitress pretty hard. She got 35%)
 
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To me, tipping is fundamentally like a bribe, except worse, because it's at the end of some engagement. Like the supposed homeless people that come up to your car to clean your windshield then expect to be tipped.

I do tip, but I don't like it. It's as if some big guilt trip is being laid on me when they present the bill. I still wonder why any business would do that to their customer and expect a long term relationship. Outside of the common tipping places like a restaurant, it makes me not want to go back and as another has said, I will just avoid that experience if possible.

Tipping to me is a bad business practice, whereby the employer isn't paying their staff enough, the business is trying to eek out every last dime, or both.
 
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Tipping cultures suck. When people from other countries visit, they don’t know what to do, they want to be appropriate but it is confusing to them. Further, the person performing the service expects a certain amount of a tip - in NYC, they expect 20% and it’s much easier to just tip it than make a point - even on bad service.

As others have suggested, just raise the damn prices and pay your employees as they should be paid. Let’s lose this concept that waiting for the end insures good service. If a restaurant owner has a ****** server, they will pay the consequences by losing business. It is their job to make sure we get good service.
 
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Why I like going to all inclusive resorts. It's included for everyone working there. Nice to not have to carry a bunch of cash around on the beach, pool, etc
 
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We just moved and ran into this. I googled it, and it said 5 bucks an hour per mover. We didn't do that, but gave them each 50 bucks (3 of them). The move bill is like 28K so whatever.. They are paid well to move.
 
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chicolby said:
Tipping cultures suck. When people from other countries visit, they don’t know what to do, they want to be appropriate but it is confusing to them. Further, the person performing the service expects a certain amount of a tip - in NYC, they expect 20% and it’s much easier to just tip it than make a point - even on bad service.

As others have suggested, just raise the damn prices and pay your employees as they should be paid. Let’s lose this concept that waiting for the end insures good service. If a restaurant owner has a ****** server, they will pay the consequences by losing business. It is their job to make sure we get good service.
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Waiters in “other countries” are paid a full wage. Hence the tipping culture difference.
 
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dinglefritz said:
So you would plop your butt down on a poop and piss smeared seat? Sick
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What are these people eating that causes them to have to **** all over themselves and the toilet seat? Good Lord..

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but every time I have to do my business in a public stall, I get a paper towel good and wet and sometimes soap, and take it into the stall to wipe down the seat (then dry it with TP) before I sit my *** down on anything. I'm not sharing *** space with some dude that doesn't like to go to the trouble of bathing daily.
 
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I tip extremely well, but just as a way of demonstrating my superiority over the socialist public school leeches. I also order a few extra entrees and let them sit on the table untouched. Then I get into my 15 MPG 80k truck, even though I've never done a minute of manual labor in my life...

... I think you should tip what you want. It is not that big of a deal, the law of averages will keep servers making decent money. Anyone can become a server so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
 
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cornhustler said:
I tip extremely well, but just as a way of demonstrating my superiority over the socialist public school leeches. I also order a few extra entrees and let them sit on the table untouched. Then I get into my 15 MPG 80k truck, even though I've never done a minute of manual labor in my life...

... I think you should tip what you want. It is not that big of a deal, the law of averages will keep servers making decent money. Anyone can become a server so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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This is AMAZING! HAHAHAHA
 
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NikkiSixx said:
To me, tipping is fundamentally like a bribe, except worse, because it's at the end of some engagement. Like the supposed homeless people that come up to your car to clean your windshield then expect to be tipped.

I do tip, but I don't like it. It's as if some big guilt trip is being laid on me when they present the bill. I still wonder why any business would do that to their customer and expect a long term relationship. Outside of the common tipping places like a restaurant, it makes me not want to go back and as another has said, I will just avoid that experience if possible.

Tipping to me is a bad business practice, whereby the employer isn't paying their staff enough, the business is trying to eek out every last dime, or both.
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For those that live in Lincoln, the Tastees Trailers have hit a new low with tipping. There you tip when you place your order. So much for a reward for good service. It's more like you tip or I don't want to think about what would happen otherwise.

The Tastees are great by the way, so I don't want to take any chances and I top the maximum.
 
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More restaurants are automatically adding a tip to the total. I double-tipped once, not realizing a tip was already included.
 
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How is that even possible? Do you live 100 miles from civilization?
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I live in Kansas. Winking
I have a 25$ gift card to Applebees that I've had for 3 years.
I have 6 free movie passes that I've never used, going back 7 years.
 
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bootleg11

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I tip 20%..more if the service is good. Never less.

But I don't tip on carry out. If I order a pizza at Pizza Hut and go pick it up, I'm not sure why I would tip someone for that.
 
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