Tipping - how to advise teens?

[Anonymous]

How do you advise your teens/tweens about how to tip? Is your advice the same as how. you tip, or is it different?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you advise your teens/tweens about how to tip? Is your advice the same as how. you tip, or is it different?

Your teen should tip exactly as you do, which is hopefully 20%. It’s no less work for the server to wait on a teen than an adult.

[Anonymous]

Sit down restaurants, 20% without fail.

Counter service at a place with the tip option at check out, 10%.

Don't waste money on delivery services like Door Dash.

[Anonymous]

You mean you calculate 10% of the total by moving the decimal to the left and from there you can easily find 15 or 20%.

[Anonymous]

20% pretax for good service and 20% post tax for better service. Easy.

[Anonymous]

The same way I tip, is how they should tip.

[Anonymous]

20% for great service, 15% for average, 10% for poor service

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20% for great service, 15% for average, 10% for poor service

By poor service, I hope you mean the server dumped food on you and sat in your husband's lap. Because that's the only way I'm tipping a measly 10%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20% for great service, 15% for average, 10% for poor service

Cheapskate. 20 percent unless for extraordinarily poor service, in which case complain.

[Anonymous]

For me, restaurants are easy - I always tip 20% unless service was horrible. If it was outstanding I'll bump it up. I struggle with cafes and coffee shops where they have tipping options at the counter. Never sure how much to tip at places like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20% for great service, 15% for average, 10% for poor service

Cheapskate. 20 percent unless for extraordinarily poor service, in which case complain.

They aren't my employee. It is a tip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me, restaurants are easy - I always tip 20% unless service was horrible. If it was outstanding I'll bump it up. I struggle with cafes and coffee shops where they have tipping options at the counter. Never sure how much to tip at places like that.

These employees are making $12-15+ and hr..not really sure what the tips are for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me, restaurants are easy - I always tip 20% unless service was horrible. If it was outstanding I'll bump it up. I struggle with cafes and coffee shops where they have tipping options at the counter. Never sure how much to tip at places like that.

These employees are making $12-15+ and hr..not really sure what the tips are for

$5 in DC plus tips, minus tip out to bartender and busser, minus taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me, restaurants are easy - I always tip 20% unless service was horrible. If it was outstanding I'll bump it up. I struggle with cafes and coffee shops where they have tipping options at the counter. Never sure how much to tip at places like that.

These employees are making $12-15+ and hr..not really sure what the tips are for

$5 in DC plus tips, minus tip out to bartender and busser, minus taxes.

PP is referring to counter service workers.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I agree that for table service 20% is appropriate in most cases. To me counter service is the gray area.