bamasam

First off I agree with Murph, I have been on the cooking side and the server side. I never tip based on what the cost of the meal is! I have been to buffets and had great service and have been to fine dining and had shitty service and attitude. The restraunts that we frequent we have made friends with the servers and they take good care of us. I tip based on SERVICE not the price of the food. I have given $10-15 at for a $46 bill at Barnhills and have left $5 at "nicer" restraunts. Bottom line = do your JOB and take care of your customers and quit thinking of them as just anouther tip! And never try to judge your tip by apparance I have seen servers that kiss people wearing a suits arse and them leave a $2 tip while I am dressed casual and leave $10.

And yes I tip my barber!

Tuna Man

There are quite a few good points here. I had the pleasure of working with Murph this past weekend and he sure busts his ass in that HOT kitchen for what he doesn't gets paid. Murph...my hat is off to you (as well as your co cooks) ,as you really must love what you are doing and the hours you put in.

Unlike others I have a range of tips that I give out. I NEVER leave nothing...NEVER. If what you consider bad service and warrants no tip...I leave $0.01...That tells the server he did a shitty job vs forgetting. I will also talk to the manager on two occasions...1) Bad service...2) Exceptional service..that goes along with the food. My tips vary from $0.01 for bad/lack ofservice, 10% for good but nothing out of the ordinary, 15-20% for those that are there without my asking for them. I don't tip on the entire bill....If I'm going to tip around 15% I'll double the tax...easiest way to figure.

How I feel about delivery as in Pizza is another story. I've done it and those cheap BAS****S that stiff get my goat. I've seen cases that it cost me/drivers money to make that delivery to the customer. I tip drivers what it would cost ME in gas to drive there and pick it up plus extra based on the time it took.

I had a customer that worked for UPS (they make good bucks), he/she never tipped. One night I took the change of all of $.16 and lined it on the roof of his car so they would see it when they got in. That was the last time they stiffed any driver. Think about it..some drivers get your Pizza to you within 30 minutes, drive as much as a 20 mile round trip and get NOTHING.........It just cost him about $2.00 out of his pocket to make that delivery. I help a neighbor at his Pizza shop a couple nights a week as he needs ideas on how to better run his new business. I told him that I would NEVER deliver the first Pizza in my auto. PERIOD. At that store they drive as much as a 20 mile round trip and it cost no less then $3.50 just in gas, and get what a $1.50 per run, NO WAY. One driver had 5 stiffs (less then $1.00..just the change) in a row one night.:banghead:banghead:banghead

Pourman1

ALL of you should try the Service Industry before commenting on this topic ... if you've never done it before , your opinions have NO relevance :nonono ... Cheap is just Cheap , no matter how you try to justify it :banghead ... you can't polish a Turd :moon

grouper22

Now that is a perfect example, shitty attitude = no tip.

We usually go out to the same few places so we rarely have a proplem with crappy service. But, I stick with the same rule, you start off at zero and earn your way to 10-15%. Nothing is free, so quit your crying and EARN it.

Mike

hebegb

this post was free Mike!!



When you coming back??

Tuna Man

I like that......."you start off at zero and earn your way to 10-20%"clapclap

Sounds like you are in the Service Industry, sounds like you feel that a tip is owed and not earned. So in saying that if I ever have you as a server and I get shitty servive...my tip to you will be $0.01

Been there done that....So you feel that ifI get shitty serviceand don't tip, that I'm cheap. No I'm not, I just don't pay for something I'm not getting, that is frugal. If a server thinks they deserve a tip because it is industry accepted, you damn well need to get into another line of work.

I have a house in Greenville, MS. I have a boy cut the grass twice a month.I also have a friend that drives by to look after it. The day the grass was cut he drove by, told me the back yard looked great but the front wasn't cut. Theyard man called me and told me he cut the grass and that I could mail the check. I asked about the front yard and he toldme he cut it. I told him that I was informed that it wasn't, and he tried to tell me he did it. I told him about my friend and what was told to me. The front was then cut before my friend passed by the next day to take a picture. Should I of payed for a half yard cutting....I think not...same thing in tipping.

hebegb

I eat out on the road A LOT.



that is exactly how I tip....meter always starts at zero.



If you get a lot of small or no tips...perhaps you need to do something different in your service or find a new job.



The small tips are a MESSAGE.



BTW...I rarely have issues where it gets below 10 to 15%

just lucky I guess

SheYakFishr

Don't get me started on this... laffs...

My daughter works her butt off at Red Lobster... she even had a table walk out on her Sunday eve.. on a $86.00 tab. She told me several times... she had over a $100. ticket.. and they left her 5.00. I don't know how she does it... I tried waiting tables in NC... gave this table the BEST service.. they even drank 3 bottlesof good wine... and back then... 87.00 was a lot of money (as it is today) and they left me NOTHING. Zip... Zilch... nada. That was my last attempt of serving. I busted my rump for nothing. I have over 10 yrs bartending off & on... and I made LOTS of money doing that. I wouldn't go back to waiting tables... no way... no how. It's also really hard to go back to office work... with lower pay... but the hours are better.

I try to always leave 20%... UNLESS they DON'T earn it... sometimes if they go out of their way... I'll leave even more.

hebegb

That is just plain cheap...and bad manners not to tip after good service....

If you have a good memory and bad tippers who are regulars... :shedevil

Instant Karma

Anyone who does not tip or only tips 10% is a cheap ass. That is the way these people get paid, you may not like it but its the system.



Now I'm not saying that bad service should be rewarded just that good service deserves more than 10%.



If you don't want to tip try McDonalds...