Tipping

[pecksniff]

I will tip for table service because waiters' salaries are minimal because tipping is expected.

But lately, it seems even in a counter-service restaurant, the card reader will prompt you to add a tip. This is excessive.

 

[magicalmoments]

Tipping is not a thing in NZ. I mean, it happens but is the exception rather than the rule.

I expect waiting staff to do their job well, competently and politely. It's their fucking job.
In NZ such staff are paid minimum wage which is about US$14. Experienced staff may get a couple dollars more

 

[phrodeau]

In many establishments, servers will pool and/or share tips with bar and kitchen staff.

 

[Goldenfinger]

Places where I live no longer pay a low wage + tips. They pay 15$ minimum wage. I tip 10-15% but if they get rid of the reason we tipped in the first place why is it needed. If the service is poor then my tip reflects it. I also don’t tip Togo orders or counter service places.

 

[SissySalina]

Tipping use to be for good service only. But the business proprietors use it as an excuse for paying lower wages and thus it becomes a need for the servers. That is the American Way now.

 

[Rockwell12]

At a sit-down restaurant where tipping seems more expected I typically tip 15%. I'll tip more for very good or excellent service. I very rarely ever tip less than 15%, only if the service is exceptionally poor and I have pretty low standards for waiter service. I don't like when they ask if you want to leave a tip for fast-food type places where you go to the counter to order and pick up your food.

 

[Adre]

Most servers work hard and put up with a lot of crap from the “great American public.” I’m happy to tip them generously.

 

[rockcasbah]

Tipping is not a city in China.

 

[silver gurl]

Our restaurants were closed for 9 months.
When doing take out, I still tipped.
Restaurants and servers got slammed by Covid.

 

[Paul_Chance]

I tip at the counter or bar as the case may be. Either way, you still have a service person taking your order, overseeing your order and delivering your order. LOL - I don't calculate by how far they have to walk (though that might be entertaining).

As an American, I tip often and well - I've been that service person, I've known a lot of people in the business - here, tips make all the difference.

About the only time I'll stiff a service person is when they're obviously fucking off and it impacts my enjoyment negatively. (For example, when they're not delivering things timely because they're standing there on the cell with their boyfriend or otherwise just giving really crappy service.)

 

[innocntplay]

I will tip for table service because waiters' salaries are minimal because tipping is expected.

But lately, it seems even in a counter-service restaurant, the card reader will prompt you to add a tip. This is excessive.

Agree. I do not tip when picking up take out.

In the past there was food trucks at lunch. All of their readers were attached to their phone like a restaurant manger app. I hated it it. I always felt guilty when they would hold it out for me to sign and I would have to hit the no tip button. It became like an added cost.

Then I realized no one else tipped either.

I have dined out twice after the covid scare began to ease. Once because my girlfriends kid had never been out to a nice restaurant. And once again for her birthday. Lockdown really sucks for kids...

Anyway I tip usually 20% and would not include tax, corkage and sometimes not some of the overpriced wine in the tip calc. Both of these times I did include and tipped 25% rounded up to the nearest 5. So happy to be out and about and have the table covered by someone who knows what they are doing. I forgot I missed that.

 

[girlsmiley]

Turkey bollocks!

 

[ishtat]

Minimum wage in Australia is $20.33/hour(or $772.60 for a 38 hour week) with 25% extra for casual employees. Tipping is rare and usually only for exceptional service.

Tipping is almost non-existent in Japan. Taxi drivers almost treat it as an insult or if feeling charitable a quaint American barbarism. Japanese culture is based entirely on giving exceptional service without expecting any reward; it's what they do.

However, basic prices will make you wince a bit.

 

[girlsmiley]

Minimum wage in Australia is $20.33/hour(or $772.60 for a 38 hour week) with 25% extra for casual employees.

Not quite.

The minimum wage is around $20/hr.

Casual workers are entitled to a higher rate of pay as they are not entitled to benefits and leave. Permanents have paid annual, sick, long service leave etc etc

 

[Paul_Chance]

I tip at food trucks and at take out. Basically, I tip anytime someone is providing me with a service. If they say "we can't accept tips" - I just say. "Happy Birthday!" or "It's National Underwear Day. Happy National Underwear Day!". I probably over tip, but that's okay, life has given me the ability to afford it and I just consider it bread on the water.

 

[Conager]

Why would whether the person served you over a counter or carried your food twelve steps dictate whether you tip?

The point of sale terminals are set up for tipping and aren't coercive. Tip or not as you wish.

If there's a tip jar, I leave a couple bucks. A two or two twos if I have 'em. My couple of bucks isn't going to make it break them, but maybe my too with the rest of their shift made for a good day for them. If the day ends up sucking at least somebody showed some appreciation.

At this point I think you should tip anybody that's making it possible for you to get your stuff because they didn't stay on home on the couch and take that government money.

Doormen, bouncers, DJ, and door girls get a five or a coupla twos. More, if I've had a good week.

We are pretty wide open now but last year hospitality people were struggling. Less people doing more work. Bear in mind, it's not just your order at the counter- what about all the orders they have to package up for the delivery people. They don't get anything from those deliveries.

 

[twister947]

I live a comfortable life; I try to spread that comfort around.

 

[Champakian]

I tip 20% for good service, but eating out is not the norm. I am a good cook.

Now if the service is fuck-all, I'll leave two pennies. Nothing sends a better message.

 

[rockcasbah]

Only in North America is tipping as a form of institutionalized begging an important part of a workers pay.