Lets discuss tipping

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

my phone has a tip calculator //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/nerd.gif.c6fa51ddf7ff75f1c0371fbc648f70ae.gif

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

its so dope

 

[pilyin 10+ year member]

Around the same, but they don't have to pay waiters minimum wage.

Where did you get this? Waiters are paid minimum, sometimes more, and the tips are a bonus. Same with tour guides (I've been one).

EDIT: Guess I'm wrong about that. I don't think you can pay less than minimum base in WA. Guess I'm glad I don't do that.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i fully grasp the concept. you are paid to bring me food and drinks. that is your job. i dont need a "stimulating conversation" as someone put it. a mechanics job is to fix a car. a piolet's job is to fly a plane. a servers job is to serve me my food and drinks. hell i dont even need you to serve me, let me get my own **** food from the cook.
and secondly, yes i dont know how much servers bring home on an average night. nor do i care. just like i dont care how much anyone else makes.

I think stimulating conversation might actually do you quite a bit of good.

 

[GoochJuice]

I think stimulating conversation might actually do you quite a bit of good.

lol, i go to a restaurant to eat not talk.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

while we're on the subject of all this...i still dont even understand why people work for these types of places. by accepting being paid $3 an hour plus tips, you're doing nothing more but encouraging the practice that employers have. in essence, you're agreeing with the employers that your work is only worth $3 an hour.
thats the reason i have never worked fast food. my time is worth more than minimum wage.

There is no reason to get angry. Settle down or we will have you admitted.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Where do you live? I want to fly out and eat with you sometime just to see how awkward you make it for everyone around you.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

There is no reason to get angry. Settle down or we will have you admitted.

This is the skitzo one we were talking about, isn't it.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i wana eat food with eugenics, ill even pay the tip

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

I would also like to do this. Table for 3 please.. (btw, the emo looking character won't be leaving you a tip or will complain about it if he does)

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i wana eat food with eugenics, ill even pay the tip

to the exact penny.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

This is the skitzo one we were talking about, isn't it.

Yes, I am attemoting to tie two threads together. It is a high risk / high reward play.

 

[GoochJuice]

I would also like to do this. Table for 3 please.. (btw, the emo looking character won't be leaving you a tip or will complain about it if he does)

wow you didnt read my other post did you?

i tip everytime, and a minimum or 15%. i tip a $5 minimum on meals that are $10. if thats a 50% tip then so be it. i start to increase my tip as soon as i reach the 15% threshold.

i feel just as shitty about you guys getting ***** by your employer, but i also dont understand why you guys put up with it and then EXPECT tips as if its a given. you deserve to be paid AT LEAST the minimum wage, and then tips can be added because you were a good server. hell i tip the ****ing home depot kid who cuts my wood, why? because i can appreciate a good job. but i dont want to hear a sob story because your employer is a cheap *** who doesnt value a good employee.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

Yes, I am attemoting to tie two threads together. It is a high risk / high reward play.

Put your game face on, Rook.

 

[19psi 10+ year member]

i served tables for years. made a good living too, enough to build a car that went 11.7@117.xx on tips. i made good tips almost all the time. my service was excellent however. nobody ever went thirsty, they knew i knew they were there from the moment they sat down, etc.

on the random occasion that some cheap *** piece of shit decided that they could order a $45 meal and leave me $5 as a tip, i felt like pulling that steak back out his throat with my bare hands. by him sitting there for an hour and giving me $5, he cost me $5 more because i could have had a different customer who would tip properly and i would have made $10 off that table that hour.

if you can afford a $45 meal, you can afford a proper tip. if you can'ta fford to tip properly, buy something cheaper.

now my wife accuses me of tipping too much, as i haven't waited tables in years, but i can't help it. unless the service sucks. then they get whatever i feel they deserve. a bad server needs to know they ****, so they can either improve or quit.