How much to tip at Top Golf?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tipping has gotten so crazy, and is becoming an entitlement. I tip 15% minimum when I get decent service while dining out. I tip 20% if it's fantastic service in general. I top NOTHING if I have to pick up my own food, and have to go to the counter. Simple as that.

The other day, I was buying lemonade from some random kids on the street in my neighborhood. The lemonade was warm and tasted terrible. I didn't need lemonade but I thought to boost the kids' spirits by buying what they sold on the neighborhood streets. 50 cents for a cup of lemonade. I bought 4 and some chips for a total of maybe $5. Gave them a $10 (because that was all I had in my wallet) and they asked if the rest is tip? WTH. Of course I said no.

You are beyond cheap.

No, she is principled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping has gotten so crazy, and is becoming an entitlement. I tip 15% minimum when I get decent service while dining out. I tip 20% if it's fantastic service in general. I top NOTHING if I have to pick up my own food, and have to go to the counter. Simple as that.

The other day, I was buying lemonade from some random kids on the street in my neighborhood. The lemonade was warm and tasted terrible. I didn't need lemonade but I thought to boost the kids' spirits by buying what they sold on the neighborhood streets. 50 cents for a cup of lemonade. I bought 4 and some chips for a total of maybe $5. Gave them a $10 (because that was all I had in my wallet) and they asked if the rest is tip? WTH. Of course I said no.

Now the neighborhood knows that you're a jackass.

[Anonymous]

Just on food

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tipping has gotten so crazy, and is becoming an entitlement. I tip 15% minimum when I get decent service while dining out. I tip 20% if it's fantastic service in general. I top NOTHING if I have to pick up my own food, and have to go to the counter. Simple as that.

The other day, I was buying lemonade from some random kids on the street in my neighborhood. The lemonade was warm and tasted terrible. I didn't need lemonade but I thought to boost the kids' spirits by buying what they sold on the neighborhood streets. 50 cents for a cup of lemonade. I bought 4 and some chips for a total of maybe $5. Gave them a $10 (because that was all I had in my wallet) and they asked if the rest is tip? WTH. Of course I said no.

Now the neighborhood knows that you're a jackass.

Nope, but we know you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of places also calculate tip on top of the total with tax. I tip on the subtotal.

Cheapskate! Who does that?

Why is PP a cheapskate for not tipping on the tax?

It’s nickel and diming. Most people look at what they are being charged and tip on it.

You’re not supposed to tip on the tax. The tax is on top of the food and drink portion, so not part of what you pay tip on.

As an example I’m going to use easy numbers. Lunch for two is $100. Tax is $8. Tip on food only is $10. Tip on whole bill is $11.60. Cheap af looking for the number before the tax is added.

Tip on the food should be $20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tipping has gotten so crazy, and is becoming an entitlement. I tip 15% minimum when I get decent service while dining out. I tip 20% if it's fantastic service in general. I top NOTHING if I have to pick up my own food, and have to go to the counter. Simple as that.

The other day, I was buying lemonade from some random kids on the street in my neighborhood. The lemonade was warm and tasted terrible. I didn't need lemonade but I thought to boost the kids' spirits by buying what they sold on the neighborhood streets. 50 cents for a cup of lemonade. I bought 4 and some chips for a total of maybe $5. Gave them a $10 (because that was all I had in my wallet) and they asked if the rest is tip? WTH. Of course I said no.

Now the neighborhood knows that you're a jackass.

Nope, but we know you are.

Not giving a tip to a kid at a lemonade stand is just terrible. Just don’t stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tipping has gotten so crazy, and is becoming an entitlement. I tip 15% minimum when I get decent service while dining out. I tip 20% if it's fantastic service in general. I top NOTHING if I have to pick up my own food, and have to go to the counter. Simple as that.

The other day, I was buying lemonade from some random kids on the street in my neighborhood. The lemonade was warm and tasted terrible. I didn't need lemonade but I thought to boost the kids' spirits by buying what they sold on the neighborhood streets. 50 cents for a cup of lemonade. I bought 4 and some chips for a total of maybe $5. Gave them a $10 (because that was all I had in my wallet) and they asked if the rest is tip? WTH. Of course I said no.

Now the neighborhood knows that you're a jackass.

Nope, but we know you are.

Cute trolling. You reek of Karen.

[Anonymous]

I was recently at Topgolf. I tipped slightly more than 20 percent of the food/beverage cost but didn’t include the golf or membership fees in the total to calculate the tip. Didn’t seem that complicated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of places also calculate tip on top of the total with tax. I tip on the subtotal.

Cheapskate! Who does that?

Why is PP a cheapskate for not tipping on the tax?

It’s nickel and diming. Most people look at what they are being charged and tip on it.

You’re not supposed to tip on the tax. The tax is on top of the food and drink portion, so not part of what you pay tip on.

It is perfectly fine to tip on the tax also, ignore the “not supposed to” business. Absolutely no one is going to complain if you tip slightly more than some people here think you should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is a horrible practice and I don't tip. It puts the economic costs of running a business on the low paid workers rather than the corporation. For example, if Top Golf is open one night, and no one shows up to play - they only pay their workers $2 an hour. Low risk. But the poor worker still has to show up - there is a high risk that the worker will lose money by working there on that night (driving there, opportunity costs of not using that time for something else.) The worker has no guarantee that they will earn any money at all.

It is only in America that workers have to rely on tips to live. If you boycott tipping, eventually the corporations will have to pay more money to their staff to convince people to work there. That is good for the economy as a whole.

So you don’t tip the low-wage workers who are stuck in this system anything, but you do it for their own good. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is a horrible practice and I don't tip. It puts the economic costs of running a business on the low paid workers rather than the corporation. For example, if Top Golf is open one night, and no one shows up to play - they only pay their workers $2 an hour. Low risk. But the poor worker still has to show up - there is a high risk that the worker will lose money by working there on that night (driving there, opportunity costs of not using that time for something else.) The worker has no guarantee that they will earn any money at all.

It is only in America that workers have to rely on tips to live. If you boycott tipping, eventually the corporations will have to pay more money to their staff to convince people to work there. That is good for the economy as a whole.

So you don’t tip the low-wage workers who are stuck in this system anything, but you do it for their own good. Got it.

Yes, it's important to screw over the below minimum wage worker to really stick it to the man. How else will evil corporations learn that tipping is bad if you don't screw over the wait staff?

PS - most restaurants are not owned by giant corporations and run on pretty thin margins.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tipping is a horrible practice and I don't tip. It puts the economic costs of running a business on the low paid workers rather than the corporation. For example, if Top Golf is open one night, and no one shows up to play - they only pay their workers $2 an hour. Low risk. But the poor worker still has to show up - there is a high risk that the worker will lose money by working there on that night (driving there, opportunity costs of not using that time for something else.) The worker has no guarantee that they will earn any money at all.

It is only in America that workers have to rely on tips to live. If you boycott tipping, eventually the corporations will have to pay more money to their staff to convince people to work there. That is good for the economy as a whole.

So you don’t tip the low-wage workers who are stuck in this system anything, but you do it for their own good. Got it.

Yes, it's important to screw over the below minimum wage worker to really stick it to the man. How else will evil corporations learn that tipping is bad if you don't screw over the wait staff?

PS - most restaurants are not owned by giant corporations and run on pretty thin margins.

And why do people think it’s the worst thing and they’ll go broke if they tip? It’s part of American culture and it’s optional. It’s very rare that people don’t tip. So rare that employees remember you so don’t make it a habit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of places also calculate tip on top of the total with tax. I tip on the subtotal.

Cheapskate! Who does that?

Why is PP a cheapskate for not tipping on the tax?

It’s nickel and diming. Most people look at what they are being charged and tip on it.

You’re not supposed to tip on the tax. The tax is on top of the food and drink portion, so not part of what you pay tip on.

It is perfectly fine to tip on the tax also, ignore the “not supposed to” business. Absolutely no one is going to complain if you tip slightly more than some people here think you should.

Sure, haha, it’s “perfectly fine” to tip on the tax. But it is completely unnecessary, since the tax has nothing to do with your own payment to the restaurant for the food. Just as the tax is calculated on the price if the food and drink purchased, the tip should also be calculated on the amount paid for food and drink.

It appears there’s a number of restaurant people here trying to take advantage of customers by making them feel foolish or cheap if they don’t tip a higher amount. I like to be generous to wait staff, but not to the point of being a chump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of places also calculate tip on top of the total with tax. I tip on the subtotal.

Cheapskate! Who does that?

Why is PP a cheapskate for not tipping on the tax?

It’s nickel and diming. Most people look at what they are being charged and tip on it.

You’re not supposed to tip on the tax. The tax is on top of the food and drink portion, so not part of what you pay tip on.

As an example I’m going to use easy numbers. Lunch for two is $100. Tax is $8. Tip on food only is $10. Tip on whole bill is $11.60. Cheap af looking for the number before the tax is added.

Are you serious calling others “cheap AF” and you’re tipping $11.60 on a $100 bill?!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of places also calculate tip on top of the total with tax. I tip on the subtotal.

Cheapskate! Who does that?

Why is PP a cheapskate for not tipping on the tax?

It’s nickel and diming. Most people look at what they are being charged and tip on it.

You’re not supposed to tip on the tax. The tax is on top of the food and drink portion, so not part of what you pay tip on.

It is perfectly fine to tip on the tax also, ignore the “not supposed to” business. Absolutely no one is going to complain if you tip slightly more than some people here think you should.

Sure, haha, it’s “perfectly fine” to tip on the tax. But it is completely unnecessary, since the tax has nothing to do with your own payment to the restaurant for the food. Just as the tax is calculated on the price if the food and drink purchased, the tip should also be calculated on the amount paid for food and drink.

It appears there’s a number of restaurant people here trying to take advantage of customers by making them feel foolish or cheap if they don’t tip a higher amount. I like to be generous to wait staff, but not to the point of being a chump.

I’ve never worked in a restaurant and I tip on the total including tax. Tax is 10 percent in D.C., so tipping on the tax is andding another 2 percent. That’s not exactly going to bankrupt me or make me a chump. Are you really so miserly that you feel like a chump for leaving an extra $2 on a $100 meal?