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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30’s families, 20s and 30’s couples tip the best. Most older women do not tip well. Most but not all older men do. The after church crowd is both notoriously needy, rude, and poor at tipping and that generalization is 100% true. [/quote]

That may be because all women over forty are typically not provided as good customer service. So they’re less inclined to tip well when they haven’t been treated as well. Waiters etc. provide better customer service to men. This is true even in circumstances where they aren’t tipped, like flight attendants.[/quote]

How do they still manage to tip you badly even after they've been nice to you and you have been nice to you(vice versa)?[/quote]

NP with serving experience.

Because they:

1) Don't understand how to tip. Ignorance, willful or otherwise. English visitors were lovely and often fit into this category. Teenagers, too.

2) Believe tipping is truly optional, instead of technically optional.

3) Have a twisted religious justification for tipping poorly or not at all.

4) Are so rich they don't even think about people needing this money to literally pay their bills. Kind of an inverted Lucille Bluth. "It's $10, Michael. What could that buy, a banana? Big deal." If they even gave it that much consideration. To them, tipping 10% instead of 20% on a $200 bill and reducing the tip by $20 was the same as shorting someone a penny. Insignificant.

5) People who think servers are lovely and all, but only "take down your order" and are no more deserving of a tip than a cashier. See this thread.

6) Relatedly, and in conjunction with one or more of the above, have no idea that otherwise, most servers make $2.13 an hour.

All of the above people can be perfectly pleasant customers and would happily tell you they got great service. Sometimes they'll even compliment you to your manager, as if that pays your bills.

A couple of uncommon but not rare ones were:

1) People who came in and sometimes even told you from the start that they had (or only budgeted for) just enough money for their meal, and not enough for a tip. They never ordered less food, or water instead of soda or w/e, in order to afford the tip. They were usually very nice, but !!!

2) Churchgoing people who would say they only "gave God" 10% (tithe) so they just couldn't in good conscience give you more than that. Never mind the only thing tip and tithe have to do with each other is a percentage sign. The old waiter rejoinder was, "Great! Just give me 10% of your salary, then!"

If you think that the only people who tip poorly got bad service-- or even that the only people who tip poorly at least BELIEVE they got bad service-- I have news for you.

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If you aren't making the income you demand, then find a differs t job.

Tip is a tip.  Its not a payment or a salary/income.  The real issue is these businesses should be paying a salary and they aren't.

A tip is generally 15%.  Bad service 10%.  But, if you do very little as a server, don't expect much.  You don't deserve $10 for 5 minutes of work.[/quote]

5 minutes? 5 minutes?? I've been tipped $2 serving a table that stayed 2 hours, fetching their meals and waters! While I could have been getting more worthwhile customers. That's almost two hours spent watching the table that overstayed to make sure they need anything. You sound like you don't deserve more than 5 minutes of our time. [/quote]

Them taking up a table for two hours doesn't mean you worked with them two hours.  A meal is one dish, maybe two.  You bring it out one time.  You bring water once, and refill 1-2 times.  Really, not that much work.[/quote]

You obviously have never been a server before. Multiply that times maybe 6-7 tables and each one constantly asking for just a small something (can we get or random condiment? Can I bother you for another straw? Could I get some extra dressing? Do you have any lemons? obviously each one needs it urgently. Not to mention half the tables are guzzling down soft drinks as if they will die of thirst should they sip their Coca-Cola - and running food, closing, greeting constantly changing tables at the same time. It is a very taxing job being at the service of others for hours on end. A slow shift is different but I’m talking about a normal busy Friday or Saturday.

For such an “easy” job I don’t know why so many people on here are complaining about poor service  :roll: [/quote]

I don't ask for those tings but to complain about drink refills is bizarre.  You are  complaining about doing your job.   You need a new job.[/quote]

You also don’t need 5 refilled glasses of Coca Cola in one sitting. [/quote]

If they are tiny glasses, yes, you do.  And, this is your job.[/quote]

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