How much do you tip?

[THEMILKMAN]

I usually tip my standard of 15% or 20% if the service was great. If they're really bad though I'll leave them a nickel or something just so they know I didn't forget ; )
I really only tip waiters and waitresses, most of them depend on their tips, without them they only earn like $2.00 an hour.


Also do you tip the Pizza Man? If so, how much?

 

[omega 616]

0% and nope I don't.

I live in England and believe if your being payed for your job why should I pay you to do your job? It's like 2 wages for one job, only you don't have to pay tax on one of the wages.

I bet you don't tip your internet provider, your doctor or your dentist, do you?

 

[WrongSprite]

If I'm out with my friends, we usually put together just over the bill, and leave it at that. So yeah, a small tip.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Katherine Kerensky]

Well, tipping doesn't happen in this country so much...
but when I visited Germany last year, I gave tips up to about... double the price of what I ordered.
Why not? it was good service, kind staff, good food.

 

[El Poncho]

I thought 10% was the standard. Well, I tip my standard which is 10%.

 

[Jiggabyte]

Depends if they were decent. Usually I just chuck down any change I have, and that can go from about 20p to £2-ish. Really depends on the situation though. I've never been at a place where tipping over a quid or two would be normal.

 

[serialver]

I tip depending on the service but I am likely to give if I see the persons manager being a ass to them because nobody is lower than anyone else, management and customers who believe their have 'rights' need to learn this. You get your food or items, you eat and fuck off. Why over complicate that relationship with demanding a smile, false plesentry and all that bollocks?

I know some people will complain if the person serving them did not ask them 'how are you doing?' without sounding sincere. COME ON GUYS! Who really gives two shits about random fat arsed sobs wanting a greasy pizza or a can of beans? You sure as hell do not care about the poor sod serving you, why should they care about you? Fundamentally it is the price and items which people come back for, maybe the taste of the food, not how the over worked underpaid service wench forced a smile and asked 'how do you do?'

I hate the American service culture, it is leaking over here into the UK, cut bonuses, perks etc and demand more, gee. French have it right, take pride in their own jobs but take no shit from customers either.

 

[iLikeHippos]

It all goes down to my mood. Wether it's pity for them (they go through the rain, coming late and they feel all miserable because it might have ruined the pizza's flavor a bit and starts to feel guilt)or that the pizza came faster than you'd anticipate.

(For those who didn't know, I'm now talking about the ones delivering pizzas to your front door)

 

[Distorted Stu]

10p, always 10p.

 

[rokkolpo]

my parents tip.

i forget

 

[ma55ter_fett]

15% always, even for the pizza man.

Unless the service was bad in which case I leave nothing.

 

[Frequen-Z]

I take the 'Mr. Pink' approach to tipping. I don't do it.

Also, we don't do it much here in England anyway.

EDIT: Ahh Ninja'd by a minute with a Reservoir Dogs reference.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I leave that sort of hard work to my father. He's a good man.

I just eat the food.

 

[x0ny]

I don't eat out at restaurants, too overpriced. But once in a while I'll order some pizza for the guys at work, and I normally give the delivery guy a bag of prawn crackers to take back. At least it's easier to share that, than a 3GBP tip.

 

[Macgyvercas]

For those who don't know...Waiter and waitresses get paid far below mimimum wage and rely on tips to make that up.

That said: I leave a 20% tip. If they are bad, I leave 15%. If they are really bad, I leave nothing (haven't had that happen yet).

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Only tip people who deliver food to me, about a quid. I don't tip at resturants, you don;t need to at England, your not expected to

 

[Sieni]

I don't tip. Nobody tips here in Finland. ;]