Where are you coming up with this "non-US countries get higher wage" stuff? I live in Eastern Europe and getting 2.5$ per hour is considered an amazing wage.Slycne said:Yes and no. The money is always going to come from somewhere.Dryk said:As I understand the US tipping culture is an elaborate ruse by restaurants to make customers pay their staff's wages for them
Non-US countries where the service staff is payed a higher wage will also on average cost a lot more for a meal as well. The "tip" basically gets wrapped into the cost of the food. If your overhead becomes more costly than the product increases in price. At least with tipping a good worker is in theory rewarded more than a bad one.
Yes, and you are suggesting to encourage this competely retarded way of managing pay. No, a person should not even accept a job in a position where they are forced to do what you write and if they do they are dicks to the whole country for supporting shady business deals.Treeinthewoods said:Way to edit out the simple to follow mathematical explanation preceding the sentence you quoted. As I said, in the states not leaving a tip means your server actually loses money from their own pocket.
And here we have a problem that you suggest to encourage.Wickatricka said:Waiters pretty much live off those tips
Yes it will. You dont tip, the guy does not get paid. the guy does nto get paid, he does not work. he does not work, the owner offers higher wage to get the guy to work. cycle this till the wage offer is minimum wage and you got yourself a solution. except that there are peopel who think they are actually helping when they tip shit services.Compatriot Block said:So if you aren't in America and your waiters and waitresses are paid at or above minimum wage, then by all means don't tip them. But that logic just isn't applicable to the system we have here, and refusing to tip won't change how that system works.
how exactly does that work? Does the manager follow you around liek a dog and tear the money from your hands? because the money is given to you, personally, and belongs to you, alone. basically what your manager is doing is a robbery.Mossberg Shotty said:I feel a bit torn on this subject because I simultaneously despise my customers for having to rely on them, and hope they tip me well. It wouldn't be so bad if the manager wasn't there, taking his cut.
You dont need to tip in the states. you are expected to tip in the states. it is a bad social contruct that went even as far as ridiculous "Taxing tips as income". This has to stop. the sooner the better. and if it takes a few people beign unemployed for a bit, then so be it. I am not a **** if i dont tip. i am a **** if i tip when i should not.Mr F. said:You NEED to tip in the states, you don't ANYWHERE ELSE. So if you don't in the states, you are a ****, but if you don't ANYWHERE ELSE you are a normal human being and tipping ANYWHERE ELSE makes you a generous human.
No. Tip is your personal gift to a person. His pay is his pay.Amir Kondori said:You tip people in the service industry because that is part of their pay.
And you think this is a good system?Amir Kondori said:You know most restaurant workers are exempted from minimum wage laws and make less than minimum wage and the tips are supposed to get them to a livable wage right?
No. I didnt sitff them of their pay. Their employer did. their employer is the "dick" everyone seems to be naming. I paid for the product, full price, as i was suppsed to. that is all.Amir Kondori said:So when you have a sit down dinner and don't tip someone for their "competent service" you've just stiffed them some of their pay?
So what, apperently america is no longer capitalist? or are you just making things up?Funyahns said:Also, no one wants to hear that its not your responsibility to tip, its a businesses job to pay employees. That is not how it works, and if you cannot afford the few dollars to tip then you cannot afford to eat out.
As long as it is not in a price it is optional. The service is arleady paid by the price. It is not my responsibility to be accuntable for a thief boss that wants to keep all the money i ALREADY PAID for the service.Action Jack said:Tipping is not optional. It's paying for the service you've been given. A person who receives good service and does not tip is a thief.
Do tell me how does having to pay extra (tip) makes food price lower?thethird0611 said:So yeah. I like tip culture. It lowers food cost, increases employee morale (as long as people do tip), and it actually provides a lot of money for many of those workers.
Come on, im in eastern europe and even though i earn around 3,5 dolalrs an hour, its a faily low (not minimum, that would be 2,5) wage. Unless you come from those few really poor countries, then yes i understand your position.5ilver said:Where are you coming up with this "non-US countries get higher wage" stuff? I live in Eastern Europe and getting 2.5$ per hour is considered an amazing wage.
So you actually think it's that simple? They just won't work? It's a good thing that bill collectors will totally let poor people off the hook when they can't make enough to survive. You are the worst type of person, take your idea of social justice and fight it on a government level instead of punishing someone who doesn't have the power to change anything.Strazdas said:Tipping is a stupid culture which we fetished to such degree there are actually people who earn their wages on tips. Waiters should (and are in coutnries with normal work ethics) paid normal wages (at least minimum or your work group agreement alternative). Tipping is expressing your appreciation for extraordinary service. This is the time you should tip to that person, personally, and noone else. in all other cases you are just supporting the illegal busienss practices of stealing from your workers at worst and are rewarding bad service at best.
Yes, and you are suggesting to encourage this competely retarded way of managing pay. No, a person should not even accept a job in a position where they are forced to do what you write and if they do they are dicks to the whole country for supporting shady business deals.Treeinthewoods said:Way to edit out the simple to follow mathematical explanation preceding the sentence you quoted. As I said, in the states not leaving a tip means your server actually loses money from their own pocket.
And here we have a problem that you suggest to encourage.Wickatricka said:Waiters pretty much live off those tips
Yes it will. You dont tip, the guy does not get paid. the guy does nto get paid, he does not work. he does not work, the owner offers higher wage to get the guy to work. cycle this till the wage offer is minimum wage and you got yourself a solution. except that there are peopel who think they are actually helping when they tip shit services.Compatriot Block said:So if you aren't in America and your waiters and waitresses are paid at or above minimum wage, then by all means don't tip them. But that logic just isn't applicable to the system we have here, and refusing to tip won't change how that system works.
how exactly does that work? Does the manager follow you around liek a dog and tear the money from your hands? because the money is given to you, personally, and belongs to you, alone. basically what your manager is doing is a robbery.Mossberg Shotty said:I feel a bit torn on this subject because I simultaneously despise my customers for having to rely on them, and hope they tip me well. It wouldn't be so bad if the manager wasn't there, taking his cut.
I'll assume you factored in a general currency exchange rate before posting just for simplicity.5ilver said:Where are you coming up with this "non-US countries get higher wage" stuff? I live in Eastern Europe and getting 2.5$ per hour is considered an amazing wage.Slycne said:Yes and no. The money is always going to come from somewhere.Dryk said:As I understand the US tipping culture is an elaborate ruse by restaurants to make customers pay their staff's wages for them
Non-US countries where the service staff is payed a higher wage will also on average cost a lot more for a meal as well. The "tip" basically gets wrapped into the cost of the food. If your overhead becomes more costly than the product increases in price. At least with tipping a good worker is in theory rewarded more than a bad one.
I don't feel bad for those living off tips. I've known people who would always claim a certain amount of money. No matter how much they earned, though they usually earned more than what they claimed. You see, the tips are still taxable, and doing that guarantees that you can stay on a lower tax bracket. And a lot of the money they earn goes unclaimed. I'd do this if I worked in such a job.Nickolai77 said:I don't tip as a matter of principle- and i have a worked in restaurant before. When you pay money in a restaurant you're paying for a product and a service which is covered under the price of the food you order from the menu. Unless the food is priced in such a way that it doesn't include the service then i have no objections to tipping. Otherwise you are just paying twice over for a service you paid for when you ordered the food. As a customer, it feels like deceitful behaviour.
This is why i would tip in America, but not anywhere else that pays it's staff at least minimum wage. I don't think it's a fair system at all though. I'm even told you're expected to tip the barman every time you order a drink.shrekfan246 said:Your first problem might be being Australian, where the average wage is high enough that people in the service industry can actually get by on just their normal pay.
In the US, people who are in "tipping" jobs can get paid as low at $2.50 an hour, though their employers are supposed to be legally required to ensure they get the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour if their tips don't cover it.
Out of interest- do you feel the price of an item of food in a typical restaurant covers both product and service or just product?
What about the people who made your food that get minimum wage for doing the hardest part of the job?DVS BSTrD said:Dividing tips among the staff always seemed like bullshit to me: I tipped THIS guy because he did a job, the rest of them didn't earn it.Binnsyboy said:Which makes it quite disgusting when you find the manager of a place pocketing a large percentage of tips taken in before dividing among the staff. :IWickatricka said:Waiters pretty much live off those tips so think of it as helping out another human being in rough times. Anyone who has been a waiter will know that it is very helpful to tip good.
Hate to say this, but it's not probably localized to the US.MonkeyShone said:Lot's of people feel this way. The way that American culture treats tips is aggravating to many people, myself included.Ronald Nand said:Am I just being stingy or do other people feel this way? Also if you do follow the tipping culture could you explain why you do so?
But unfortunately that's kind of the way the system works in the US. If you don't tip, you are underpaying the culturally-accepted fair price for your service, and stiffing some poor, hard-working employee out of part of their bill.
To be fair I guess I should have said a higher living wage, as the same wage can go further in an area where the cost of living is lower. But basically what I'm saying is that it all averages out, if your sales tax is really cheap you probably pay more property tax, if your workers are paid a high enough wage that a tip isn't necessary than the food is probably more expensive.5ilver said:Where are you coming up with this "non-US countries get higher wage" stuff? I live in Eastern Europe and getting 2.5$ per hour is considered an amazing wage.
Well said.Bruce said:I tip between 10% to 20%. I have worked as a waiter, I had a good boss, the job itself sucked.
Okay here is why you tip:
Waiting tables is basically self-employment. The pay is generally either going to be minimum wage or possibly even non-existent. Waiters will remember the people who don't tip, and they will remember for a long time.
What tip you get as a waiter is basically taken as a reflection on the service you give. Somebody doesn't tip it means you gave shit service, and generally people don't like being told they suck at their jobs.
Consider this: a comedian can get rave reviews in ten papers, but the eleventh that panned his show will be the one that gets remembered. If you don't tip you are that eleventh reviewer, and if you routinely don't tip you can expect to start getting your food with a bit of well deserved extra mouth sauce because fuck you.
And yes, it is very possible to get a name as a stingy prick. Waiters talk to each other, and this is why some people don't get good service wherever they go.
You are quite naive it seems. You argue a system is broken (I'll agree there) but do so in a way that blames the ones hurt the most by that very system as though they had any say or option besides. They aren't paid normal wages and have no means of forcing that onto an employer in a nation where the poor are treated as scapegoats and the ones with money are allowed to do so. Yes, there do exist laws (which are hard to enforce and often result in said employe being fired or forced to challenge a more funded business in a court) to try to stop that, but in this economy, many would sooner fire an employee and grab a new one from the crowds of unemployed then deal with a trouble maker. So people put up with it in order to maintain their meager wages. Working poor have it hard enough.Strazdas said:Tipping is a stupid culture which we fetished to such degree there are actually people who earn their wages on tips. Waiters should (and are in coutnries with normal work ethics) paid normal wages (at least minimum or your work group agreement alternative). Tipping is expressing your appreciation for extraordinary service. This is the time you should tip to that person, personally, and noone else. in all other cases you are just supporting the illegal busienss practices of stealing from your workers at worst and are rewarding bad service at best.
Yes, and you are suggesting to encourage this competely retarded way of managing pay. No, a person should not even accept a job in a position where they are forced to do what you write and if they do they are dicks to the whole country for supporting shady business deals.Treeinthewoods said:Way to edit out the simple to follow mathematical explanation preceding the sentence you quoted. As I said, in the states not leaving a tip means your server actually loses money from their own pocket.
And here we have a problem that you suggest to encourage.Wickatricka said:Waiters pretty much live off those tips
Yes it will. You dont tip, the guy does not get paid. the guy does nto get paid, he does not work. he does not work, the owner offers higher wage to get the guy to work. cycle this till the wage offer is minimum wage and you got yourself a solution. except that there are peopel who think they are actually helping when they tip shit services.Compatriot Block said:So if you aren't in America and your waiters and waitresses are paid at or above minimum wage, then by all means don't tip them. But that logic just isn't applicable to the system we have here, and refusing to tip won't change how that system works.
how exactly does that work? Does the manager follow you around liek a dog and tear the money from your hands? because the money is given to you, personally, and belongs to you, alone. basically what your manager is doing is a robbery.Mossberg Shotty said:I feel a bit torn on this subject because I simultaneously despise my customers for having to rely on them, and hope they tip me well. It wouldn't be so bad if the manager wasn't there, taking his cut.
No. You tip the watress because she took extra care of you. You already pay for "takes your order, serves you coffee and refills, bring you the food" iin the bill.themind said:If you can't afford to leave a tip, then stay home and cook for yourself. You tip a waiter/waitress because he/she takes your order, serves you coffee and refills, bring you the food. If you want to bus your own tray and pour your own drink, go get some fast food.
Well, if the waitstaff are unable to stand for themselves to such extent, that is the only solution. Continuing the tipping culture is not however. but then again, this is US, where wellfare system does not exist and capitalism is rampant. i guess as long as you got moeny that you stole from your workers your always in the right.Treeinthewoods said:So you actually think it's that simple? They just won't work? It's a good thing that bill collectors will totally let poor people off the hook when they can't make enough to survive. You are the worst type of person, take your idea of social justice and fight it on a government level instead of punishing someone who doesn't have the power to change anything.
Seriously, you are going to fight the system by punishing the lowest level cogs in the machine? Laughable at best. Fortunately the majority of people don't think like you so servers can continue to get by instead of starving for your "ethics."
Save for rent, its not that different. in fact you get many things, like Gasoline, way cheaper. we laugh when you cry about gasoline prices rising. we already got double that.runic knight said:Now Factor in the cost of living there as well, and any sort of minimum wage enforced.
Hardly. I cant speak for everyone, but i noticed a lot of americans like to waste money. I once had to prove somone you can live off of 1000 dollars a month. seriuosly.....That $2.50 goes farther then the $4.50 in the US that may be the base server wage, where the minimum wage is around $7.50, and that is barely enough for a single person to live off of based on simple cost of living
So you tip because your afraid some asshole is going to poison you if you dont give him extra money? maybe they shoudl flat otu come and tell you its a robbery then?Saltyk said:I don't get not tipping. These people are not only providing you with a service, but handling your food. It would be real easy for them to mess with it. That's one reason I tend to be a "perfect customer" and be polite and even joke with my server.
Did he? what if i were to tip the waitress, even though the food tasted like ass, but the service was exceptional? should he still get a cut to the cook?asinann said:What about the people who made your food that get minimum wage for doing the hardest part of the job?
except that it isnt. The amount we can buy with a montly pay does not even come clsoe to half of what you can buy with a minimum monthly pay. the purchase power parity is way bellow here.Slycne said:To be fair I guess I should have said a higher living wage, as the same wage can go further in an area where the cost of living is lower. But basically what I'm saying is that it all averages out, if your sales tax is really cheap you probably pay more property tax, if your workers are paid a high enough wage that a tip isn't necessary than the food is probably more expensive.
I cant distupe the managers pays, but no sane investor would ever invest in a company that makes 3% or less profit. This is simpyl a lie or every restaurant would dissapear very fast.kiri2tsubasa said:You want to know something funny. On average managers make about the same as the wait staff and the restaurant makes on average 1-3 percent in profit.
I blame the ones that pay bellow minimum wage.runic knight said:You are quite naive it seems. You argue a system is broken (I'll agree there) but do so in a way that blames the ones hurt the most by that very system as though they had any say or option besides. They aren't paid normal wages and have no means of forcing that onto an employer in a nation where the poor are treated as scapegoats and the ones with money are allowed to do so. Yes, there do exist laws (which are hard to enforce and often result in said employe being fired or forced to challenge a more funded business in a court) to try to stop that, but in this economy, many would sooner fire an employee and grab a new one from the crowds of unemployed then deal with a trouble maker. So people put up with it in order to maintain their meager wages. Working poor have it hard enough.
People need to money to live, so they are willing to take whatever shitty job they can at times. There is no "guy is paid more to work", rather "guy is fired because we have a dozen others who will work at the shit pay we offer".
the system is anti-worker to its core at the moment, so screwing them over more by not tipping is a dick move. Want the system to change, that has to come from the top down.
Besides, the price of the service food itself is often less then european counterparts because the tip is not added to the base price. So you would pay the equivalent of a meal with a 10% tip in the states as you would for one without a tip across the pond. The idea is that by making the tip a tip instead of part of the price, it makes the buyer more willing to spend there as it is a deal at first glance. I agree the idea is dumb for the workers, but marketing rarely makes a lot of since to anyone but the bottom line watchers.
Some states (mostly the ones that don't vote for republicans) don't allow for a minimum wage exemption. The employer pays minimum wage and then they get tips on top of it.FreelanceButler said:I generally don't tip. I live in the U.K., so tipping isn't really necessary because everyone gets minimum wage and stuff. But I don't eat out very often anyway.
I usually let fast food delivery people keep the change, if that counts for anything. I'm guessing all the money just ends up going to the company though.