People who don't tip or tip correct amount

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If these avid tippers really cared as much as they claim they would be walking with envelopes of cash to leave for the cooking staff, grocery cashiers, grocery loaders, deli sandwich makers, gas station attendants, janitors at the local school… Why are waiters so special!?

Waiters are so special because they get paid less than the minimum wage.

So we make up for that by paying them $100/ hour in tips? We could get them up past wage if each table tips $5, not 20%.

If you really think waiting tables is so well-paid and easy, why don’t you become a server? Your eyes would be quickly opened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A couple of months ago I went to get a pedicure and was seated at the spot closest to the (open) front door which was also the spot closest to the front desk where people checked out. Two women had come in for manicures and pedicures before me. They checked out, got asked if they wanted to add a tip to the credit card charge and said no. A woman came in to get waxed - I heard she asked for legs and bikini. She got asked if she wanted to add a tip. $2. She tipped TWO DOLLARS.

I felt so bad I tipped $30 on my pedicure.

I don’t tip on the credit card. I give the mani/pedi lady cash. Yes, I carry cash for this purpose.

The other customers did not give cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me how I learned to tip at a young age. I was 12 years old and I was invited to a birthday party in the neighborhood. I was the new kid and happy to be there. It was Ruby Tuesday restaurant, 5 kids plus the birthday girl, two parents and grandparents. I was sitting next to the birthday girl, when the waitress brought the check to the table, the dad gave my friend permission to add up tip and sign the check. I watched her the whole time because I was curious how much the check was, my friend put down $30 as a tip and sign the check. I was just surprised why so much, because my parents and I always tip $1 for each person. My friend basically tip $20 over, I asked her why she tip so much, she said because it's 18% of the check, and that's how I learned to tip appropriately. Imagine if I didn't know better, I would have tipped a dollar my whole freaking life and people surprise to learn why some people don't tip at all or tip incorrectly. Tipping is also culturally bias, I'm Asian and I realize people in my community tip the same way as my parents, my husband is African-American, his parents also tip small amount and your husband is the opposite.

Everyone knows black people aren't known for tipping well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always have backup 20s to throw down or pass to the server surreptitiously

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So rude of you to put your friend on the spot like that. How do you know his financial situation? You should take it up with restaurant owner to pay their staff a better wage.

Then his friend should have been an adult about and not accepted the invitation. You don’t accept and invitation to meet people somewhere if you can’t afford the gas, do you?

[Anonymous]

The simple solution to anyone having a problem with tipping is to not patronize any establishment where tipping is how the help get paid. You can start going back to those places when that system is changed, or you could go to Australia and eat out there as some PP shared that tipping in restaurants is not the norm there.

Thankfully most people are not idiots who don't tip. My daughter makes an average of $40-50 hr as a bartender and made close to that when she was a server. The restaurant where she works has been doing a booming business for many years but moreso since they reopened during covid in May of 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If these avid tippers really cared as much as they claim they would be walking with envelopes of cash to leave for the cooking staff, grocery cashiers, grocery loaders, deli sandwich makers, gas station attendants, janitors at the local school… Why are waiters so special!?

Waiters are so special because they get paid less than the minimum wage.

So we make up for that by paying them $100/ hour in tips? We could get them up past wage if each table tips $5, not 20%.

If you really think waiting tables is so well-paid and easy, why don’t you become a server? Your eyes would be quickly opened.

I love when people pretend like being a server is the hardest most unpaid job in existence. It isn’t. Tip or don’t tip or tip whatever amount you feel the service warrants. But tipping >20% because OMG it is such a hard job. No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The simple solution to anyone having a problem with tipping is to not patronize any establishment where tipping is how the help get paid. You can start going back to those places when that system is changed, or you could go to Australia and eat out there as some PP shared that tipping in restaurants is not the norm there.

Thankfully most people are not idiots who don't tip. My daughter makes an average of $40-50 hr as a bartender and made close to that when she was a server. The restaurant where she works has been doing a booming business for many years but moreso since they reopened during covid in May of 2020.

And this is why so many college students want to work as servers. I don’t see any of them putting in applications to pick blueberries or husk corn. Maybe people should start driving out to farms and tipping the migrant workers that are breaking their backs picking the produce that is on your plate. That your servicer gets a $10 for walking to your table. Serving tables is perhaps the easiest job for the hourly rate they typically earn in tips

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If these avid tippers really cared as much as they claim they would be walking with envelopes of cash to leave for the cooking staff, grocery cashiers, grocery loaders, deli sandwich makers, gas station attendants, janitors at the local school… Why are waiters so special!?

Waiters are so special because they get paid less than the minimum wage.

So we make up for that by paying them $100/ hour in tips? We could get them up past wage if each table tips $5, not 20%.

If you really think waiting tables is so well-paid and easy, why don’t you become a server? Your eyes would be quickly opened.

I worked as both a nursing assistant at a major hospital in college and as a server. I made $13/hr as a nursing assistant (that is with the extra $2 for overnight premium) and averaged $30/hr serving tables. Guess which job was harder?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always have backup 20s to throw down or pass to the server surreptitiously

+1

Same. I keep singles, fives, tend and twenty just in case!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If these avid tippers really cared as much as they claim they would be walking with envelopes of cash to leave for the cooking staff, grocery cashiers, grocery loaders, deli sandwich makers, gas station attendants, janitors at the local school… Why are waiters so special!?

Waiters are so special because they get paid less than the minimum wage.

So we make up for that by paying them $100/ hour in tips? We could get them up past wage if each table tips $5, not 20%.

If you really think waiting tables is so well-paid and easy, why don’t you become a server? Your eyes would be quickly opened.

Waiting tables is worth $100/hour but frying steaks in the kitchen isn’t because it’s so much easier? Hmmmm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So rude of you to put your friend on the spot like that. How do you know his financial situation? You should take it up with restaurant owner to pay their staff a better wage.

Clearly you are the non tipper.

Out of line! No OP shouldn't do that. OP doesn't even know what the restaurant pays or doesn't pay its staff! How rude!

[Anonymous]

I'm still waiting for the person on page 2 to tell me how tipping is racist

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me how I learned to tip at a young age. I was 12 years old and I was invited to a birthday party in the neighborhood. I was the new kid and happy to be there. It was Ruby Tuesday restaurant, 5 kids plus the birthday girl, two parents and grandparents. I was sitting next to the birthday girl, when the waitress brought the check to the table, the dad gave my friend permission to add up tip and sign the check. I watched her the whole time because I was curious how much the check was, my friend put down $30 as a tip and sign the check. I was just surprised why so much, because my parents and I always tip $1 for each person. My friend basically tip $20 over, I asked her why she tip so much, she said because it's 18% of the check, and that's how I learned to tip appropriately. Imagine if I didn't know better, I would have tipped a dollar my whole freaking life and people surprise to learn why some people don't tip at all or tip incorrectly. Tipping is also culturally bias, I'm Asian and I realize people in my community tip the same way as my parents, my husband is African-American, his parents also tip small amount and your husband is the opposite.

Everyone knows black people aren't known for tipping well.

I did not know this an am ashamed that I was not raised to be racist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still waiting for the person on page 2 to tell me how tipping is racist

Think you’ll be waiting awhile…. Also suspect that the reason that might be given will probably be racist