So how much do you tip?

[SeaCat]

Or what has been the largest tip you have left in a restaraunt?

I'm traditionaly a heavy tipper. I worked a season bussing tables when I was younger and know what these people go through.

Last night though I overdid myself and I'm glad I did.

Our Waitress was a cute little thing. She seated us, introduced herself and gave us our menus. She told us she would be right back. She came a couple of min utes later and took our drink orders. While she was doing this the Hostess was seating a foursome behind us.

This foursome sat down and started in. They couldn't believe the lighting, they wanted to know where their Effing Waitress was. When she came to their table they started in on her about being slow and sloppy. When she left with their drink orders they raked her and everyone around them over the coals in loud and quite vulgar language. They seemed to be having fun being noticed and rude.

When their drinks were delivered they gave the waitress an earful, she hadn't served the correct drinks. Then when she delivered their food they started in on her again. She had brought the wrong meals and those she had brought were incorrectly cooked. I knew what they were angling for, they wanted their meals to be comped. Even so they were irritating me.

Our poor waitress was near tears everytime she left their table but she stuck it out. Finally when the head of the group told her she was a low class hooker he wouldn't stick his dick into if he was paid I had enough. I slid out of my seat while my wife watched with concern and stepped around the booth to have a little chat with the guy. I leaned down next to him and whispered a few sweet nothings into his ear.

I explained that he and his groups actions were disturbing the rest of the patrons of the place, and that their language and comments were offensive in the least. I also explained that he had two choices, he could quiet the hell down or I could ask the management to eject them, and I would be willing to help them eject them bodily. I also explained that if I heard another comment like his last one to the waitress out of him, or his group I would be more than willing to meet him out back to discus it a bit more. When I slid back into my booth they were a lot quieter.

When my wife and I had finished eating we both ordered a cup of coffee and relaxed. It was pleasant and our waitress was looking a lot less harried. Her service to us was outstanding. She didn't hover but she did make sure we were happy.

When she came by with our bill I asked her to have the manager come to our table. She had a concerned look on her face when he came over. He asked if there was a problem and I told him there wasn't but I did want his help. I explained to him that our waitress had been more than outstanding in her service of us and of the others around us. I also explained that I knew some places pooled tips and that I wanted her to be able to keep our tip for herself. He listened to this and agreed while saying his waitresses didn't have to pool their tips. When I heard this I smiled while handing her the tip.

Now normally I will tip roughly twice the usual amount. In this case I went far beyond that. Our bill was roughly $50.00 for the meal, my tip was $50.00 and if I had more money in my wallet it would have been more. She had earned it.

Have you ever done this?

Cat

 

[cantdog]

I tip 20% and better every time, barring really big fuckups. I can do 10% in my head, as anyone can, by shifting the decimal, and I double that, rounding up.

The waitrons traditionally receive less than minimum wage, on the theory that they get tips. Some establishments pay hardly enough to defray a meal, during an entire shift.

People who see me for the third time a repeat customer recognize me. I get above-the-bar service. But I would have tipped like that anyway.

Do you know there are assholes, scum, lowlifes, who go to restaurants in order to fuck with the waitstaff and drive them to react? I saw three (I'm almost sixty) get fired on the spot when an abusive customer got done complaining to spineless managers.

And the managers can do it, because the job market for low-end service jobs is always for crap.

 

[DesertPirate]

I will tip 25% for good service. Got in the habit since I have a daughter that is a waitress.

 

[SeaCat]

I tip 20% and better every time, barring really big fuckups. I can do 10% in my head, as anyone can, by shifting the decimal, and I double that, rounding up.

The waitrons traditionally receive less than minimum wage, on the theory that they get tips. Some establishments pay hardly enough to defray a meal, during an entire shift.

People who see me for the third time a repeat customer recognize me. I get above-the-bar service. But I would have tipped like that anyway.

Do you know there are assholes, scum, lowlifes, who go to restaurants in order to fuck with the waitstaff and drive them to react? I saw three (I'm almost sixty) get fired on the spot when an abusive customer got done complaining to spineless managers.

And the managers can do it, because the job market for low-end service jobs is always for crap.

And that is one of the reasons I don't Wait or Bus tables today. If I did there would be a rash of injured customers. I just don't deal well with people like that.

Cat

 

[LittlePenisInPA]

I consistently tip 20% but the biggest tip I ever gave was probably around 35%.

 

[AllardChardon]

Always 20% and sometimes better, if I am impressed. I usually tip the young fuck-up well also, so they don't give up. I was a waitress and the best tip I got was from a group of men at a company meeting. One table for the night and $75.00 for my good service. No strings attached.

 

[DesertPirate]

And that is one of the reasons I don't Wait or Bus tables today. If I did there would be a rash of injured customers. I just don't deal well with people like that.

Cat

I can just see the quantity of coffee in laps

 

[TE999]

I have known several people including two aunts and my parents who hopped tables in their younger days.

The service has to be atrocious before I tip less than 20%...and I often tip more.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Gosh...It's been about 18 months since the last time I tripped.


Ooohhhh.......How much do you TIP?




generally I take the tax and double it for normal service. Sometimes more or less depending on the quality of service.

 

[funinthesun2185]

around 15-20
I'm a hostess...and as friends with servers, know a good tip can make the worst day the best

 

[ChainedEros]

In restaurants, I tip around 15%. I tip my barber around 30%.

 

[kromen]

I start at 20% and it's a sliding scale. The least i tipped was 5% and even told the waiter why. It took over thirty minutes to get the check after i asked for it and another 20 to get my card back. It seems that his girlfriend was more important that the customers that evening.
I actually tipped 50% one time, but she was really cute and I did end up with her phone number. So sue me.,

 

[oggbashan]

Tipping isn't the same in all countries. In the UK many establishments include a service charge varying between 10 and 15% as a matter of course on your bill. You CAN ask for it to be removed but you have to be seriously pissed off to do that.

In the UK I expect to tip about 15% for normal service, rounding it up to the nearest whole pound. 20% is for exceptional service.

Where I differ from some people is that I give Christmas Boxes to the staff in the takeaway food places I use frequently. They rarely get any tips. For example I use a local KFC clone. My order is always the same and is sometimes being prepared before I get to the front of the queue to place my order and pay. The working staff get the money spread between them - I checked with the owner who is a personal friend. Unfortunately he told me that I am one of a very few who think of tipping his staff and the only one to give a Christmas payment. What they usually get is the few copper coins left by an obnoxious drunk who thinks that abusing the staff is amusing. The staff put those coins in a charity box.

Og

 

[Boota]

I start at 20%, but will go more or less depending on service.

The most I've ever tipped was $104.00 for a $35.00 meal. Purely accidental. I meant to leave five ones and left four ones and hundred dollar bill. Once I realized my mistake I was okay with it. I figured I didn't need the money that badly and I probably just made that waitresses week.

 

[Liar]

Dunno. Sounds to me like asking "how much do you pay?"

The answer is: for what?

For service at a table, starting at between 10 and 20%, depending on local customs. And then up or down depending on service. Zilch if it truly sucks.

For service at a table in my home town, it gets a little ambiguous. My favourite joint don't accept tips. I know a few of the staff personally, and they're ok with that, since they get paid well, are not over worked and are long term employees. Instead they have a big-ass jar on the counter, where you can stuff your appreciative extra bills. The money does directly to a local homeless shelter operation. Which is, by the way, where they recruited the staff. Gives them an extra spring in their step to give back, I suppose.

But that's not why I go there. The chef can treat a bolognese better than anyone outside Bologna.

 

[Safe_Bet]

... The chef can treat a bolognese better than anyone outside Bologna.

What a bunch of...

No. I can't bring myself to say it...

BTW, is the chef's name Oscar Mayer?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

The service was so bad at one place that we tipped 4 cents on a $40 bill just to piss off the staff. It took them fifteen minutes to seat us in a nearly empty room, twenty minutes to get around to taking out order, forty minutes to get us our food, and ten minutes to get around to bringing us the check after we asked for it. The food was cold too. Terrible experience.

But I usually tip between 15 and 20 percent.

 

[Liar]

[COLOR="Purple"BTW, is the chef's name Oscar Mayer?[/COLOR]

Who in the what now?

 

[christabelll]

From both sides I look and see, were they prompt, handling me courteously?
Was the food cooked well, how busy is it really?
Knowledge and caring of what your restaurant serves, while that one is picking boogers when he thinks I can't see.

Anyway - average around 15% up or down depending on the entire experience. I have been known to leave a PENNY for inexcusable service. Thats more insulting than leaving nothing at all.

I have left HUGE tips for viritually nothing on my bill (the service was exemplary)....
I've even gone so far as to fill out those comment cards and comment on EVERYTHING... from temperature of the room, the food, the speed the sound etc.
One night not to long ago - 10 of us ended up at a roadside tavern. Busy honkytonk kind of diner. Packed ( as close to a full house as I have ever seen it). Complicated ticket.
Our server was Crackingly on the Ball. Seemed like one of us would look up and there she was, bringing us more drinks, another layer to our feast, etc etc. the bill was oh 350.00 bucks all told. She got a 100.00 tip, and comment cards filled out by every one of us. The girl was on CLOUD NINE. So much so she ran out into the parking lot and wanted to give all of us hugs. She got quite a few!

Be good to your server and they will be good to you.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Who in the what now?

My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R my name
My bologna has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R
Oh, I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why, I'll say,
"'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A."

http://www.faphost.com/images/8lnc0vn5xoq8mamdovbh.jpg

 

[cloudy]

Was the food cooked well

A waiter/waitress has absolutely zip to do with how well your food is cooked. ZIP.

Not tipping or lowering your tip because the food wasn't cooked exactly right is punishing the waitstaff for something they have absolutely no control over.

I used to wait tables. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes I hated it. Most of the time people are great, but not tipping because you didn't like the food is inexcusable. The only thing the waiter is responsible for is the service. Period.

 

[Guest]

I have been a server before at a few of the 'big' named chain restaurants.... like one named after a day of the week and another that many of us talk about as OZ. Because I have been a server at some of these places I have a tendency at times to be alittle more critical on the service. I know it's not always nice but I have had some amazing servers that I have tipped them the amount of my bill. I have also gone the other way and simply not tipped and when I have done that I simply wrote out a note and handed it to the manager on the way out as to exactly why I didn't tip the server.

Some of the better ones....
I was taken out to dinner at Red Lobster (before things got hinky) I was having a hard time eating because Le Baby was being a turd so I pretty much was having a hard time finding anything to eat, I smelled some crab legs go by and suddenly wanted them but worried about paying that much for an entire order of them if I couldn't stomach them. The server was a dream he said well how about I do this, see how we can add-on crab legs to an entre I will bring you the add-on size so you fix your craving and won't have to pay for something if you cannot eat it. He was a prince. He was attentive and so very nice all night. I think the bill came to be something small like $18 (anyone that's eaten there knows its small) and I gave him a $20 tip.

I went to a Red Robin, I love their fries and their blue burger. There was five of us out just fooling around and we were teasing one of the people that we were with that too bad we didnt come back the next week because it was their birthday and RR does this really wacko thing for bdays. Well the ladies overheard us and brought him out a bday sundae and hammed it up with the singing and all kissed him on the cheek it was hysterical. We tipped them the amount of our bill.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

A waiter/waitress has absolutely zip to do with how well your food is cooked. ZIP.

Not tipping or lowering your tip because the food wasn't cooked exactly right is punishing the waitstaff for something they have absolutely no control over.

I used to wait tables. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes I hated it. Most of the time people are great, but not tipping because you didn't like the food is inexcusable. The only thing the waiter is responsible for is the service. Period.

Ah, but if the wait staff is slow, and your hot food comes out cold, it is probably because they took too long getting it out to you.

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I tipped a $20 on an $8 meal once. It was by mistake, but I let her have it. I wanted to tip $10 because it was Christmas time, and dropped the wrong bill down. No real problem there.

 

[christabelll]

A waiter/waitress has absolutely zip to do with how well your food is cooked. ZIP.

Not tipping or lowering your tip because the food wasn't cooked exactly right is punishing the waitstaff for something they have absolutely no control over.

I used to wait tables. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes I hated it. Most of the time people are great, but not tipping because you didn't like the food is inexcusable. The only thing the waiter is responsible for is the service. Period.

I know this Cloudy. If I have a problem with the food I take it up with the Manager and/or cook. Its the SERVICE I am talking about. And if they are taking an hour to bring out the food then that is terrible service.

In point of fact I have been known to tip the busboy/girl and the chef seperately from the wait staff. In some places thats not allowed, but in a few it is.

And as I said earlier I have been on both sides of the equation. I look at it all and base how generous I am going to be on all of it. If the Wait person is doing their job well they get rewarded for it. (Even if the food sucked! been there done that!)

 

[Liar]

A waiter/waitress has absolutely zip to do with how well your food is cooked. ZIP.

I wish for nobody to be tip dependant, but sometimes I wish I could insta-reward or punish the cook.