Poll: Poll: Waiter's Rant-Tipping

[Mstrswrd]

Always 15% minimum, or, of you go their often and you know the server, than 20%.

 

[PhiMed]

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Do whatever you want. That's what you're going to do anyway.

 

[SilverApple]

We as waiters generally do not control how the food is prepared and how it tastes. If there is a problem with the food let us know and we will fix it, or get you something new as soon as possible. Yes it sucks when your food is overcooked/undercooked, but in most resteraunts waiters don't control that.

How are the chefs paid?

 

[Nickolai77]

In the UK tippings an optional, not really expected sort of thing. Then again, we insist on people being payed at least enough by their employer to survive, rather than having a system where you pay some prick in charge for a service, then pay their staff for them on top of that. For a country that proclaims to be so rabidly capitalist, America looks a lot like an 18th century oligarchy at lot of the time.

Good point. My thoughts are that Britain, as well as most of Europe has had it's fair share of poverty, i mean just look at Victorian England. I think this has bred a sense of fairness and social justice in Europe which America, which benefited so well in a capitalist system, had had paranoid hatred of communism, does not have.

 

[AkJay]

I normally tip 15%, but if I have a good waiter/waitress, or the meal was cheap, I'll tip them a little extra.

 

[Nicragomi]

I'm usually a hard-ass about tips.

I put about 5% or 8% of what the bill was on the table, and I tell the waiter/waitress that every time I have unfilled glass or if a plate isn't taken off the table fast enough, they lose a dollar of that tip. Usually works pretty well.

 

[cathou]

i always goes between 15 and 20%, or 1$ per drink if i'm in a bar.

i was barmaid a few years ago, and the way it work in quebec (and probably in other province too, but i honestly dont know if it's the case), you get paid minimum wage for worker with tips (which is usually 2.5$ less poer hour than regular minimum wage). and you get your tip, minus 5% that we gave to buss boys and hosts. then, at the end of the year, you have to do your taxes. But what you must declare in taxes is not just your base pay. You must add 8% of your sales in tip revenu. and you pay your taxes based on that revenu.

So when people dont tip you, you actually lost money...