Tipping At A Restaurant

I do 20% at restaurants, bars, etc.

If I'm drinking heavily then it'll usually get rounded up because I'm drunk and not mathing

A lot of places use those tablets or add a tipline on the receipt. That's why I like cash

I noticed crumbl cookies app makes you manually enter a price to select 0 for no tipping. They default to an amount. That's aggressive. And I'm sure they do it because it makes you feel a certain way when you have to manually enter a 0

Haven't been to McDonalds and all in forever but I wouldn't tip

One side says the company should pay them a living wage while the other side says those jobs aren't meant for that and more for transitioning job
 
Yeah 30% is crazy and not standard she wilding. If she gets that sometimes great but damn sure don’t set that as your standard especially if your working say a chili’s or Applebee's.. and not a twin peaks or hooters type establishment. Keep in mind in if customers aren’t coming in and eating or drinking you lessen the chance that you’ll be making a decent paycheck that day don’t be to big headed.

Typically I go 20% to keep the math simple sometime more just depends but I’m also a rather simple and patient person so generally unless your just lousy you’ll get that 20%+.
 
Knock_Twice said:
Im curious to know what jobs you shouldnt tip?

Do the cashier at McDonald's get a tip? Or the cashier at Dollar General? No they’re hourly and that what they should expect on their paycheck

The person who should get the biggest tip of them all are sanitation workers imo. The modern day trash trucks Ive seen are operated by a single person from the cab.. gone are the days of someone having to drag the trash can or toss the trash bag but that might still be the way in cities.

Them trash pickups, Rain, sleet or snow can be brutal
I tip my hat off to them dudes every time I drag my garbage to the road… thats most trade jobs though, thats just part of the job. You’ll be surprised what sanitation workers typically make especially if their union, them terrible weather conditions are typically worth the paycheck.
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I think as a whole the tip culture has gotten out of control. I think businesses started pushing that bs to justify paying low hourly… but you have the “potential” to make tips instead of just offering more hourly. Increases their profits while you struggle. Ask for too much money they you’ll be replaced by a self service kiosk.

It use to be waitresses and food delivery that you knew to tip… now you go into any food joint (dominos/subway etc) even if your just grabbing a order to go your asked about a tip from a establishment w/ hourly employees. Nope within the job you’re being paid to do to take orders and make said orders a tip shouldn’t even be mentioned nor expected.
 
I believe you should tip if you receive good service but I also believe the burden of the servers income shouldn't be on the customer it should be on the employer. It gets weaponized against the customer while employers sit back getting fat.
 
20% is my standard.

But only against tip based jobs. After working as a manager at a restaurant... And seeing the hourly wage of servers, bar backs, food runners and bartenders.... It's kinda part of the"going out" experience. The owner of the restaurant I was at actually gave tip based positions way more hourly than most restaurants..... Mainly because he knew people really don't tip that much and he wanted to make sure they were doing good.... But it's really no incentive on him to give tip based positions a much higher rate other than keeping them. The way the taxes treat tip based positions has much more to do with it than the owners of the restaurant.

Especially individually owned restaurants.
 
Usually when I go into a restaurant/bar I kind of have an idea on what I’m willing to spend theres been time where I go somewhere not knowing an hour later is happy hour for whatever I might be drinking, as a server or bartender if Im still there once happy hour hits and you wait to put my drinks in the system until then that drink money I was expecting to spend on non happy hour drinks is just gonna go on your tip instead. Some will go ahead and do this some don’t either way its either the business or you getting the difference.
 
we tip between $5-$25.

Poor service gets the lower end

Busy as hell, but they’re trying. We push it up.

The higher end isn’t super typical unless it’s a mom and pop shop or the service is just really good.
 
At a restaurant, I'm tipping 25%. It goes down if the service is bad, but that's really rare.

That said though, when I go to the bagel shop and ask for a egg and cheese, and the mfer turns the little screen back at me with tip defaulted to 20%? Nothing gives me more pleasure than clicking back, and then 0 on that bitch.
 
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Freeman said:
I believe you should tip if you receive good service but I also believe the burden of the servers income shouldn't be on the customer it should be on the employer. It gets weaponized against the customer while employers sit back getting fat.
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This 100% I was in new York now Hawaii I have refused to tip sooo many times the service hasn't been good enough.

This culture is out of control tipping 18$ for a mid meal and service not me
 
Knock_Twice said:
still can't get over business owners of these establishments want you to pay their workers wages for them.

charge yo ass a billy for a meally but don't wanna pay their waiters a decent wage.

FOH
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This is the mindfuck I mentioned in another thread. These owners successfully put their staff against the customers over tipping to keep the focus off of their absurdly low hourly wages.
 
Knock_Twice said:
still can't get over business owners of these establishments want you to pay their workers wages for them.

charge yo ass a billy for a meally but don't wanna pay their waiters a decent wage.

FOH
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It's not some independent conspiracy on the owners.... It's the culture of the service industry.

If owners paid their servers say $20 an hour, and did not require patrons to tip....

They'd struggle to find good servers.

Good servers are like good salesmen.

Really good sales job have low base pay because the commission is what really determines how much they bring home. And if the base pay was better with limited or no commission.... You lose really good sales people who know they can make elsewhere.

Shits only an issue when people get shorted on a regular. A decent server or bartender can make $5-600 a night at the right spot. I've seen it in action too many times.

Niggaz don't complain about tipping strippers. You think they making $40-$50k a year without tips?

Imagine a nigga going in a strip club like

"Why I gotta give these chicks money, why can't the strip club owner just pay them more?

It's all service industry. Tipped positions are all over the place, but the only ones niggas complain about is restaurants.

You know how much bell hops and valets make at nice hotels? Shit.... You know how much they get tipped?? Lots...

Yes people work those jobs for the tips... No one works those jobs because it's a livable wage... It what's keep the service enthused.

You want McDonald's level service at a nice restaurant??
 
Duwop said:
It's not some independent conspiracy on the owners.... It's the culture of the service industry.

If owners paid their servers say $20 an hour, and did not require patrons to tip....

They'd struggle to find good servers.

Good servers are like good salesmen.

Really good sales job have low base pay because the commission is what really determines how much they bring home. And if the base pay was better with limited or no commission.... You lose really good sales people who know they can make elsewhere.

Shits only an issue when people get shorted on a regular. A decent server or bartender can make $5-600 a night at the right spot. I've seen it in action too many times.

Niggaz don't complain about tipping strippers. You think they making $40-$50k a year without tips?

Imagine a nigga going in a strip club like

"Why I gotta give these chicks money, why can't the strip club owner just pay them more?

It's all service industry. Tipped positions are all over the place, but the only ones niggas complain about is restaurants.

You know how much bell hops and valets make at nice hotels? Shit.... You know how much they get tipped?? Lots...

Yes people work those jobs for the tips... No one works those jobs because it's a livable wage... It what's keep the service enthused.

You want McDonald's level service at a nice restaurant??
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So you're saying only America has nice restaurants & thats because we have tipping culture?
 
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