How much do you tip?

[Tjebbe]

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?

Hit the nail on the head my friend.

Depends on where you are (btw, while people don't tip their doctors, they used to give them presents regularly over here, usually in the form of homemade foodstuffs), doctors and dentists don't need the money, but in some places (like the US), waitresses and waiters get way underpaid. When i'm over there i tip 15-20%. Over here, where people are forced by law to pay decent wages, the problem is a lot less, but for good service i still tip around 10% and round down or up to the nearest round number (which is the custom over here).

 

[Konfusion88]

10% standard unless the service was particularly bad then they get nothing.

 

[RanD00M]

I'm often called "Mr Pink" when we eat out.

You should rather be called Mr.Orange.Since you do look a little like a younger version of Tim Roth...And that is a compliment.

OT:I tip as much as I want.But it all depends on how good the food was and how good the service was.
And I don´t order pizza.

 

[Dahni]

I try to round up to the nearest fiver.
so if I spend £12, ill give them £15. etc.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

I love how people seem to think that just because they're idiotic enough to get a shit job that somehow gives them the right to get a tip for doing said shitty job. I have to do a shitty job too (Because I'm idiotic) I consider my day lucky if I get a thank you.

I do tip but usually because I can't be arsed waiting around for change.

For all you people angry that tips aren't given, they should get a better paid job or grow the fuck up.

 

[Klepa]

I think everyone gets a decent pay in Finland, and we haven't evolved a tipping culture. Never seen or heard a person tipping in a restaurant here, and we don't really even have a proper word for it.

 

[Nuke_em_05]

without them they only earn like $2.00 an hour.

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

Consider that first-- waitresses in the United States receive on average 2.35 USD per hour as income is primarily derived from tips.

Regardless of your views on the idea of tipping in general its how servers make their living doing a job that stinks.

To those, in the United States, who take up the banner of "they only make $2.13/hr without tips" or claim it is their primary source of income:

Ahem,

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires payment of at least the federal minimum wage to covered, nonexempt employees. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Some states have minimum wage laws specific to tipped employees. When an employee is subject to both the federal and state wage laws, the employee is entitled to the provisions which provides the greater benefits.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

OT: I tip 15% if it is really good service anyway. Same for the pizza guy. Society is weird.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I love how people seem to think that just because they're idiotic enough to get a shit job that somehow gives them the right to get a tip for doing said shitty job.

Well hey now that's a huge generalisation. What about all the University and 6th-form (Ages 16-2?) students who are working part-time to fund their education even contribute to their household's total income? There are innumerable examples I can pull out of my ass to contradict your assumption that having a poorly-paying job means you're stupid.

To those, in the United States, who take up the banner of "they only make $2.13/hr without tips" or claim it is their primary source of income:

Ahem,

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires payment of at least the federal minimum wage to covered, nonexempt employees. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Some states have minimum wage laws specific to tipped employees. When an employee is subject to both the federal and state wage laws, the employee is entitled to the provisions which provides the greater benefits.

Aha! I knew there was more going on here!

Apparently [http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/index.htm] the federal minimum wage is $7.25. That doesn't sound like much to me, though. Only Four Pounds Sixty-Eight. But then stuff is cheaper in America, right?

Nice profession in your profile by the way *Throws Rubber Chicken*.

 

[khaimera]

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.

You and your friends sound like aholes. As a past server who waited on "your kind' I can't let you or any other non tipping fool get away with it without at least calling you out for what you are. If you can't afford to tip stay at home and eat what mommy and daddy make for you.

You're reported for that attack on me there. I actually said we left a tip? Where I live, waiters don't live on tips anyway.

"Aholes" "your kind" and "mommy and daddy" were uncalled for, I hope you get banned.

hmmm. You know I was going to apologize becuase I thought after this heated post that maybe you were not American. If you were, I stand by it, if not, it was uncalled for. But then I saw what you put about being a baby and reporting me and hoping for a ban. That mommy and daddy comment seem completely justified now. Try not to have the mods fight your battles for you.

 

[khaimera]

without them they only earn like $2.00 an hour.

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

Consider that first-- waitresses in the United States receive on average 2.35 USD per hour as income is primarily derived from tips.

Regardless of your views on the idea of tipping in general its how servers make their living doing a job that stinks.

To those, in the United States, who take up the banner of "they only make $2.13/hr without tips" or claim it is their primary source of income:

Ahem,

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires payment of at least the federal minimum wage to covered, nonexempt employees. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Some states have minimum wage laws specific to tipped employees. When an employee is subject to both the federal and state wage laws, the employee is entitled to the provisions which provides the greater benefits.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm

OT: I tip 15% if it is really good service anyway. Same for the pizza guy. Society is weird.

You are right about that, and servers almost always make over minimum wage. But to think that serving tables is minimum wage work is wrong. Its not worth what we actually make for sure, but nobody should make just minimum wage. That society is weird comment is pretty funny to me though. Oh and tip 20 % in restaurants. Don't be cheap

 

[no one really]

I tip about 5-15%. Depends on how nice the waiter is, how long it takes, etc...

 

[effilctar]

Snip

Actually, reporting is the right thing. If a member of these forums feels offended by a post made by another user, it is right for said individual to report the post. And quite frankly, your attitude has been appalling in this thread. You fail to realise that in some of our countries, waiters and waitresses are paid very well and do not live off of tips. You simply choose to abuse people who don't tip, regardless of their cultural traditions towards tipping.

You deserve at least a suspension for your attitude towards Wrongsprite alone.

 

[WoUlD_yOu_KiNdLy]

nope ... i steal the tips.. it a great way to get a meal and make money ........... but no in all seriousness i have the problem of almost all english people and therefore cant haggle well and feel sorry for them, so i always end up dutting like a 25% tip on

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

I personally tip according to service, like everybody else, but rather than paying by a percentage of the bill, I go with a fixed amount. Once I tipped over 100%, but it was such a small order that it still amounted to a lousy tip. After all, five bucks on a single slice of pizza seems amazing- but only if you're going by percentages.When you just hand somebody five bucks and forget about the cost of the food for a moment, you realize that it isn't much at all.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

20%. I used to have to work for tips, so I'm always sympathetic.

 

[khaimera]

I hope you get banned.

Hear Hear!

He sounds a fucking dick "if they don't tip enough I call them out". If he tried that where I lived he'd get the shit kicked out of him. I'm with you on this one Wrongsprite.

Khaimera: if you're upset that people don't tip you, get a proper fucking job that pays. They really aren't that hard to come by.

You sir have been reported for this verbal abuse. Just kidding, I'm not a child. There are so many things wrong with every part of this post that I won't even respond to them. Jobs not being hard to come by, me calling them out, getting a "proper" job, etc., etc.

I should have known that this thread would end up like this. Too much immaturity and stereotypical teen angst around here.

 

[Susan Arendt]

I'm curious, people who are saying that 10% is standard: where are you from? Because here in the States, it's 15% (though it might be 18% now, I'm not sure). Anyway, I tip 20% unless the service was alarmingly bad. Food delivery folks get three dollars standard, more if the weather is really terrible.

 

[Rednog]

I rarely tip, if anything it might just be the change, like say my bill is $19, I'll just leave a twenty dollar bill.
I really don't think a lot of people really deserve a tip for doing their jobs.
There are some people who go above and beyond their duty then yea sure they deserve a tip, but 90% of the people are doing the bare minimum of what is required of their job and they somehow feel privileged to get extra money out of you? The hell with that.
I really don't get why everyone expects tips now, waitresses, taxi drivers, sandwich makers, drink mixers, etc... (actually most venues of food). It kind of gets to a silly point where even the most menial jobs have tip cups.
Though I will say there are some rare occasions where some jobs have a significant chunk of their tips as their salary. My dad used to work as a bartender and he would maybe get like $40 for a night of work from his boss but his tips would be somewhere around $150 and this was for like 10 hours of work. Without tips he would only be getting $4 an hour. Though I don't think many places do this kind of thing anymore, I know when I tried to learn to be a bartender the boss had a set hourly wage (over the minimum wage) but he would take a significant chunk of the tips, but in the end it pretty much ended being the same thing.
I personally would prefer just a higher standard wage for previous tipping jobs and just have that somehow filtered into the cost because for those who actually depend on people tipping they can get screwed pretty badly.
And I really hate places where they put automatically force a tip on a bill and the waiter/waitress actually expects an additional tip left on the table.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Though I will say there are some rare occasions where some jobs have a significant chunk of their tips as their salary. My dad used to work as a bartender and he would maybe get like $40 for a night of work from his boss but his tips would be somewhere around $150 and this was for like 10 hours of work. Without tips he would only be getting $4 an hour. Though I don't think many places do this kind of thing anymore, I know when I tried to learn to be a bartender the boss had a set hourly wage but he would take a significant chunk of the tips, but in the end it pretty much ended being the same thing.

For wait staff in the US, this isn't rare, it's standard. Now, by "wait staff," I mean people who actually come to your table, take your order, and bring you food, not a guy behind a counter. Also, it's fairly standard for the waitperson to have to "tip out" the busboy and server, so they don't even get the full amount of the tip left.

 

[wildpeaks]

15%, with a minimum of 2 euros. Figures that if 2 euros really makes you *that* happy, you need it more than me.

French have a reputation to be bad tippers, but that's only because we're used to have the tip included in the bill, so when going abroad, some may not know about the customs.