Tipping At A Restaurant

I got bamboozled once paying a tip on top of there already being a 15% charge that I didn't realize was auto applied to the bill. The waitress was all smiles as if I was tryna be extra gracious. Wack shit... That's what u get when u don't check the receipt.
 
Bobjones said:
I got bamboozled once paying a tip on top of there already being a 15% charge that I didn't realize was auto applied to the bill. The waitress was all smiles as if I was tryna be extra gracious. Wack shit... That's what u get when u don't check the receipt.
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This happens on vacation all the time....I still break them off though
 
Lol at giving them a set amount based on the price of the meal and not the service.

I have left no tip before and not gave a single fuck about it.

Had to run down another waiter just for a damn refill.
 
There seems to be a disconnect here. Servers make MORE than min wage and if they dont, they report it and the restaurant owner is has to make up the difference so that they make at least min wage. Thats the law.

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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.
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elaws - Fair Labor Standards Act Advisor

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But theres a reason why servers purposely, keep spreading disinformation that they dont make min wage. Thats to get sympathy and make even more in tips.

Another thing is they are just now, starting tip sharing policies for back of the house employees,but only in some places. For years servers made more money than all the cooks in the back making the food. They'd hide it by claiming cooks make more an hour but never mention how much they take home in tips. This alone has had cooks pissed off. Now a lot of servers are mad they have to share tips with back of the house staff.

This is story on it in 2015

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But there's another problem that's been bubbling up for decades: Many of the people who work the kitchen have been getting short-changed -- especially when compared to the wait staff serving customers.

"The back-of-house staff are typically underpaid compared to the front of the house," said Darren Tristano, executive vice president of Technomic, a restaurant industry research firm. "It's a really big issue."
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On paper at least, cooks in this country are paid more than waiters. The median pay for cooks is about $10 an hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For waiters, it's roughly $9 an hour. But those numbers don't tell the whole story -- because waiters are paid tips, and kitchen workers are not. And tips completely skew the comparison.
The government's estimate for how much waiters make includes a bit of guesswork about how much they earn from tips, since tips are often paid in cash, and things paid in cash tend to slip through the cracks. The Atlantic wrote about the issue earlier this year:
...the IRS estimates that as much as 40 percent of tips go unreported. It's hard to track for an obvious reason: Everyone likes giving and getting tips in cash. Nationally this adds up to as much as $11 billion in unreported (and untaxed) income.
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Waiters, in other words, are probably making a lot more money than BLS data makes it seem. Pay Scale, which tracks salaries through crowdsourcing, estimates that in cities like Miami, Boston and San Francisco, waiters can expect to make $13 an hour in tips alone, on average. Elsewhere, tips can add well over $10 an hour to servers' salaries.
Waiters working in big cities understand this. But so do cooks, and they aren't happy about it.
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Keep in mind, these numbers are from 2015, so i'm sure they've gone up.
The ark of tipping etiquette varies, depending on where you live, but it tends to bend upward. In many cities, the tip norm has crept up from 15 percent of the bill to 18 percent. Where 20 percent was considered generous, 25 percent is becoming the new standard. And that's only widening the gap between what waiters and cooks are paid.
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Many restaurants have responded by breaking from the traditional tipping system. Some have gotten rid of tips altogether. For instance, Sushi Yasuda in New York City added this note to its credit card slip a couple years ago: "Sushi Yasuda’s service staff are fully compensated by their salary. Therefore gratuities are not accepted." Many others have simply added a flat service charge.
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Trump administration did some law to make them share tips with back of the house. Sounds good for a headline but when you look close, it could give owners loopholes to pay them less and make them live off tips too

www.wsj.com

Restaurants Can Require Servers to Share Tips Under New U.S. Rule

Those who receive gratuities could be forced to share them with non-tipped co-workers, like dishwashers, under the new regulation.
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I had a old head tell me this while I was sitting in the barbershop .he said this about tipping

B. Jones - knock, do you tip when you got out to eat.

Knock - Yea, I usually do...why Old killa, you don't?


B. Jones - Man you a fool, I stopped tipping back in 97..

Knock - Oh yea, why so

Barber - Man you can't be leaving the restaurant without tipping...speaking of which, I don't think you ever gave me a tip all these years of cutting your hair Mr..Jones.

B.Jones..- Yea i haven’t and yo ass wont ever get a tip outta me.
(He goes on to say why he doesn't tip)

Companies charge you 50 to 100 dollars or more for a good steak dinner, all the server is doing is taking your order and bringing it back to the cook. Nothing more nothing less,
If his or her boss can't pay them a living wage off the money that they make from their customers, why as a paying customer should I do his job??

He works for Flemings, not B.Jones. Flemings make a 50 to 100 or more off a steak dish, plus other items, it's not my job as a customer to pay for a 100 dollar meal and pay your workers.

Knock - Dayum killa, you make a valid point.

B.Jones - I know, old fools, used to be young fools.

Knock - You still a cheap ass bastard for not tipping

B.Jones - Say, Pot (talking to the barber) Ima pay for his cut and mines...
I got money killa. I just know how to keep.

Knock - I see you killa

I guess the moral of the story, companies want you to pay for their employees and keep all of their profits and not pay for nothing
 
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If i got bad service you got a bad tip. If I have to flag you down for refills, another premium drink, napkins or whatever. If you on point I'll definitely tip well
 
It was one time I'm at chili's long time ago bill was like 79 bucks and some change and i think I was getting back like 20,30 cents gave her cash so I'm waiting like where my change at.
So she walks by and I'm like ma'am where my change she said oh i thought I could keep it im like hell nah so bright it back and a couple of pennies. I left 1 cent on the table. She was a horrible waitress though even had to talk to the manager about her and the service.
 
Banginscrew901 said:
It was one time I'm at chili's long time ago bill was like 79 bucks and some change and i think I was getting back like 20,30 cents gave her cash so I'm waiting like where my change at.
So she walks by and I'm like ma'am where my change she said oh i thought I could keep it im like hell nah so bright it back and a couple of pennies. I left 1 cent on the table. She was a horrible waitress though even had to talk to the manager about her and the service.
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Bro, im surprised she didnt sneak yo ass lmaoo.

Tears.
 
More energy needs to be put on these owners who dont pay a living wage.

You don't wanna pay your employees, waiters but wanna charge me 150 bucks to a steak dinner back when red meat was exclusive shit.

Nah, you got these high ass prices, you can afford to pay your folks

Restaurants, known ones usually make profits, but wanna make you the customer, working man pay for their workers

Capitalism and Greed
 
Knock_Twice said:
Bro, im surprised she didnt sneak yo ass lmaoo.

Tears.
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Lol Nah my gal was with me. It takes a lot for me to get upset and I'm understanding. But when you walking by or looking and you see the people not eating they food naturally you'll stop and all what's wrong. Nope she kept going about her business
 
got a 1100 laptop of walmart.com delivered..they suggested i tip the driver 101 bucks via app...i gave em 20 cash and kept it moving
 
Im curious to know what jobs you shouldnt tip?

Do the cashier at McDonald's get a tip? Or the cashier at Dollar General?

The person who should get the biggest tip of them all are sanitation workers imo.

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
 
Knock_Twice said:
I had a old head tell me this while I was sitting in the barbershop .he said this about tipping

B. Jones - knock, do you tip when you got out to eat.

Knock - Yea, I usually do...why Old killa, you don't?


B. Jones - Man you a fool, I stopped tipping back in 97..

Knock - Oh yea, why so

Barber - Man you can't be leaving the restaurant without tipping...speaking of which, I don't think you ever gave me a tip all these years of cutting your hair Mr..Jones.

B.Jones..- Yea i haven’t and yo ass wont ever get a tip outta me.
(He goes on to say why he doesn't tip)

Companies charge you 50 to 100 dollars or more for a good steak dinner, all the server is doing is taking your order and bringing it back to the cook. Nothing more nothing less,
If his or her boss can't pay them a living wage off the money that they make from their customers, why as a paying customer should I do his job??

He works for Flemings, not B.Jones. Flemings make a 50 to 100 or more off a steak dish, plus other items, it's not my job as a customer to pay for a 100 dollar meal and pay your workers.

Knock - Dayum killa, you make a valid point.

B.Jones - I know, old fools, used to be young fools.

Knock - You still a cheap ass bastard for not tipping

B.Jones - Say, Pot (talking to the barber) Ima pay for his cut and mines...
I got money killa. I just know how to keep.

Knock - I see you killa

I guess the moral of the story, companies want you to pay for their employees and keep all of their profits and not pay for nothing
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I have no problem tipping great service. Especially someone that hooks me up. If they gave me free drinks, I will give them more than %20.
 
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