BreezyBrew
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A co-worker were out at a pub tonight. All beers were advertised as half price. Here is a picture of the tab. How is this possible? FYI I didn't know the bartenders.
$3 tip huh?
$3 tip huh?
$3 tip huh?
Really? Is that where we are now? A world where a 30% tip is considered stingy?
God help us.
I've never been one to criticize another persons tip because you never know their situation, and tip philosophy can get as touchy as politics.
What I think he was trying to point out is that even though the tip was 30% of the tab, the beers were 1/2 off but the wait staff still worked the same amount. On a normal day this would equate to a 15% tip.
Sales always suck for wait staff because most people tip based off of the tab price which means a reduced tip for the same work. A good practice that I find is to tip based on the number of drinks and not how much they cost, but again that gets into personal philosophy...
I like the way you guys think.
So the next time I take my wife out for a $200 dinner at 5-star restaurant, I'll feel OK only tipping $10 (5%), because after all, the wait staff did the same amount of work as they would have if I'd just taken her to Red Lobster.
I like the way you guys think.
So the next time I take my wife out for a $200 dinner at 5-star restaurant, I'll feel OK only tipping $10 (5%), because after all, the wait staff did the same amount of work as they would have if I'd just taken her to Red Lobster.
You're looking at it wrong. The tab should have been much higher. So, the OP got a great deal. You don't then turn around and tip 30% on your great deal, you should tip on what the bill SHOULD have been.
Don't be cheap a$$es people. Bartenders, servers, etc don't get paid much. If the service is good and/or you get a good deal, share the health.
Don't mess with people who handle your food. Trust me on this. Your face will be remembered. You will be messed with and not even know it.
So long as you tip your hotdog vendor the same $10. Dealing in absolutes is always a perfect solution, don't you think?
No no, I get it. I'm just turning your logic around on you. If a restaurant lures me in with cheap drinks, but I'm still supposed to tip like they were reasonably priced, why can't I do the same thing with overpriced fare? If I'm at an airport lounge paying $8 each for Bud Lights, can I tip them based on what they would have cost me at a reasonably-priced place? If I buy a $70 steak dinner, but I could have made it myself for $15 worth of ingredients at the grocery store, can I tip accordingly? Why should a server get an outrageous $30 tip (15% of a $200 bill) at a fancy restaurant when they're not actually working any harder than the college kids at Applebee's?
Hold on, let me call you a Waaambulance.
If I don't even know it, why would I give a sh*t?
And why should I be generous toward people who are capable of such hateful, vindictive behaviour?
There's a reasonable amount to tip, and it's not always based on percentage. If a server is handling 4-5 tables, and turnover is about an hour, then regardless of whether it's a Denny's or Gordon Ramsey Steak, I think an acceptable upper limit to the tip is $15. No matter what the bill was.
Think about it. You've got 5 tables, tipping $15/each (and if you think they're declaring all that tip income on their taxes you're kidding yourself), that's $75! For an hour's work! Heck, I barely make half that, and I've got a college degree! Only in this ass-backwards Millennial entitlement generation would a kid expect to be paid $75/hour for bringing plates from a counter to a table and back.
There's a reasonable amount to tip, and it's not always based on percentage. If a server is handling 4-5 tables, and turnover is about an hour, then regardless of whether it's a Denny's or Gordon Ramsey Steak, I think an acceptable upper limit to the tip is $15. No matter what the bill was.
Think about it. You've got 5 tables, tipping $15/each (and if you think they're declaring all that tip income on their taxes you're kidding yourself), that's $75! For an hour's work! Heck, I barely make half that, and I've got a college degree! Only in this ass-backwards Millennial entitlement generation would a kid expect to be paid $75/hour for bringing plates from a counter to a table and back.
There's a reasonable amount to tip, and it's not always based on percentage. If a server is handling 4-5 tables, and turnover is about an hour, then regardless of whether it's a Denny's or Gordon Ramsey Steak, I think an acceptable upper limit to the tip is $15. No matter what the bill was.
Think about it. You've got 5 tables, tipping $15/each (and if you think they're declaring all that tip income on their taxes you're kidding yourself), that's $75! For an hour's work! Heck, I barely make half that, and I've got a college degree! Only in this ass-backwards Millennial entitlement generation would a kid expect to be paid $75/hour for bringing plates from a counter to a table and back.
Really? Is that where we are now? A world where a 30% tip is considered stingy?
God help us.
I'm just going to chime in and say, this is not how it works. There are 1 - 2 busy hours 3-4 days a week. The rest of the time you are making crap. Unless you are a fine dining waiter, you would have to be high as hell to think that servers are making 75 an hour.
My personal philosophy is, if the waiter didn't suck, I'll give them 30% of the bill. If I do something that waiters hate, like ordering just a coffee and taking up their table space for a while, I'll usually drop 6-8 bucks just to make it worth their time. That's a rock bottom minimum. Like what I consider you should do if you don't expect crap in your food.
The reason I have a highly paid job and a college degree (and yes, I am a dreaded "millennial") is because of the generosity people showed me as I was working my way through the ranks. I feel responsible to pay it forward to the next generation.
On another note, every single generation has been called entitled or lazy... every single one. It is never true and it is usually a sign of GOFS. Grumpy Old Fart Syndrome.
% goes out the window on a small tab.
I've never been one to criticize another persons tip because you never know their situation, and tip philosophy can get as touchy as politics.
What I think he was trying to point out is that even though the tip was 30% of the tab, the beers were 1/2 off but the wait staff still worked the same amount. On a normal day this would equate to a 15% tip.
Sales always suck for wait staff because most people tip based off of the tab price which means a reduced tip for the same work. A good practice that I find is to tip based on the number of drinks and not how much they cost, but again that gets into personal philosophy...
I live in a country (Canada)
So the tip looked bad, but I did make it up with the food. They made $10 for a tip where my food and drink total was $18. I'd say that's pretty generous and most folks wouldn't have tipped that much.
But not on a big tab?
Why not?
Why am I expected to still tip at least 15% on a $200 bill, but up to 50% on a small tab?
It sounds like the correct amount is neither a percentage, nor an absolute, but rather whatever those poor, underprivileged wait staff feel us distasteful rich folks owe them for having the nerve to be richer than them. So how do I figure that out? Just ask them? Pull out my wallet and slowly keep peeling off 20's until their frown goes away? What's my penance for having the audacity to actually expect to be able to get a meal and a drink for the price advertised on the big sign out front?
It is a simple matter of what is meaningful.
If a waiter (in the US at least) waits on you, whatever the tab, whatever you do or do not get, anything under $3 is meaningless. You took up a spot, whether they were busy or not, they had to get you things, whether it was a glass of water or a peking duck.
On a huge check, 15% is a meaningful amount of $, so % is ok.
On a $3 sandwich and a glass of water, 15% is an insulting, meaningless amount of money.
If you want to tip a meaningless amount, buy a sixer and go home, or eat at Mcdonalds.
If you enter a sit down place with bartenders or waitstaff, tip an amount that is worth your server's time.
That wasn't my point though.
My point was: The server took care of you, so take care of them so that they remember you as an appreciative good tipper. This, in the end benefits you, not them.....well, it benefits them too, but since you may or may not care, the tangible benefit is to you.
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