Customer Writes LOL Instead Of Leaving A Tip
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Bee Sheriff
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Wait, only the waiter gets the tip?
I thought the entire staff gets a cut of the tip.
CycloneLaunch
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Call me bitter. Call me jaded. I don't care. I work in healthcare and have never been tipped once in thirteen years. Waiters / waitresses if you want to make decent money just go to school. It is not my fault that you chose a job where you get a minimal base hourly rate and then rely upon tips to supplement the rest. Yes I do too when I go out but maybe only ten percent.
irunthepeg
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Agreed, although I'm sure that's what this thread was intended to become (another tipping debate).
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irunthepeg
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Cody Webster
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Always tip 20%
Say you go out with a group and everyone orders food and you just have a couple beers and maybe an app. Your meal comes out to $13. Do you tip $3 or do you tip more? In that case I'd leave like $5
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irunthepeg
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I tip 15% almost exclusively. Unless I've had mindbogglingly good service, I might go more. I need to actually tip less or not tip if service is bad though. Especially here in Canada. The reason tipping is so prevalent for the food service industry is cause the wage sucks in the States. Canada isn't like that. There's a minimum wage that the food service jobs are in. The fact that people think they should have a job that requires no education and make more money "because of having a family" is sort of infuriating sometimes. I don't get tipped at my job based on if I do a better job 
I went to school for it, now I make the money based on the supply/demand for my field.
I went to school for it, now I make the money based on the supply/demand for my field.
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I know where I work, the servers give 3% of their liquor sales to the bartender, and 3% of their food sales to the kitchen. That is more or less standard I believe.
Yeah - I'd much rather live somewhere like that.
The no tip + LOL is a dick move. An hour to be served your meal? Yeah I get that kind of sucks but I doubt the waiting staff has anything to do with that.
I think my worst experience is a waitress collided with a co-worker and some hot lasagna fell all over my neck/back. The manager came out and was freaking out, the waitresses were freaking out. I'm assuming they were worried about being sued, being fired and all that.
They lead me to the bathroom, gave me a towel to wash up & a colorful t-shirt that was super tight and small. I probably looked ridiculous in this classy restaurant in dress pants with a casual & super tight t-shirt. I'm assuming the shirt came out of the locker of one of the employees.
In the end - my meal was completely free, I was medically fine (didn't bother with a doctor/hospital) and I was the one trying to calm down everyone else. "No, I'm not mad. I'm not going to sue. I don't want the waitress or anyone fired. I haven't been burned and don't need a doctor or hospital".
I tipped at the end anyways (I forget if it was bill total or if I added in the price of my meal - probably just bill total) because accidents happen and they gave me a free meal. I even made sure to return and hand back the shirt to them while reassuring the manager again.
Dr Pepper
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Aww, muffin....you gonna be okay?
Whatever it is that divides us, I'm sure we can work together to fix it.
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I tip 15% almost exclusively. Unless I've had mindbogglingly good service, I might go more. I need to actually tip less or not tip if service is bad though. Especially here in Canada. The reason tipping is so prevalent for the food service industry is cause the wage sucks in the States. Canada isn't like that. There's a minimum wage that the food service jobs are in. The fact that people think they should have a job that requires no education and make more money "because of having a family" is sort of infuriating sometimes. I don't get tipped at my job based on if I do a better job
The reason why tipping is so prevalent is because of the ultra-capitalistic society in which the employer expects the customers to pay their employees' wages as well as the meal they're paying for just so they can put more money in their own pockets. It's sickening.
Waitresses who complain about tips should be looking at the actual people in charge of paying them, not the customers they're serving.
Dr Pepper
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This makes sense. Waitresses earning a better wage from the get-go would take a lot of pressure off the tipping community.
Now if only they could get auto mechanics to stop charging for "labour", on top of all the parts. I swear sometimes that's like half the bill.
cupcrazyman
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People are not forced to work as servers but paying someone only $2.13/hr is an absolute disgrace.
They are lured by the chance of making $100's in tips.
Just not in this story.
They are lured by the chance of making $100's in tips.
Just not in this story.
izzy
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This makes sense. Waitresses earning a better wage from the get-go would take a lot of pressure off the tipping community.
Now if only they could get auto mechanics to stop charging for "labour", on top of all the parts. I swear sometimes that's like half the bill.
i agree mechanics should make no money
Dr Pepper
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That's not quite what I meant, fst6.
I'm sure they earn a fair wage, whether it's hourly or salary. I just feel sometimes like "labour" should be what their employer is paying them to do, not me. Hell, even if the parts cost more and they removed the word "labour" from the bill, it would sit better with me, lol.
The profit margins for restaurants aren't that great...
They own and pay large taxes/utilities on their restaurant... or they rent/lease and it's still expensive.
It's not like restaurants are always bustling and filled with patrons. I hate tipping culture and wish it would go away but I understand meal prices would need to go up.
izzy
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That's not quite what I meant, fst6.
I'm sure they earn a fair wage, whether it's hourly or salary. I just feel sometimes like "labour" should be what their employer is paying them to do, not me. Hell, even if the parts cost more and they removed the word "labour" from the bill, it would sit better with me, lol.
huh???? where does the money come from???
