Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.[/quote]
I’ve never worked a front of a restaurant but I’ve worked the back of the house in a few different places. I always try to tip because I know what they have to deal with. I’ll find myself doing little things like piling all the trash up and stacking plates/cups and putting them near the edge of the table so they’re easier for the waitress or busser to collect.
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.[/quote]
I’ve never worked a front of a restaurant but I’ve worked the back of the house in a few different places. I always try to tip because I know what they have to deal with. I’ll find myself doing little things like piling all the trash up and stacking plates/cups and putting them near the edge of the table so they’re easier for the waitress or busser to collect.[/quote]
I do the same, I’ll typically tip pretty well unless the service us just garbage. If anything ever happens that’s outside the server’s control like the food is just shitty or undercooked and I send it back and she is more then happy to do it I’ll typically tip her a large amount, because she’ll drop the price of the food in half or off depending on the situation.
Once at O’Charley’s after sending a steak back 3 times because it was still raw the manager came over and offered to send it back again, and I laughed and said “thats fine, my dog will eat it when I get home.” The manager dropped my price to like 7 dollars for the other half of my meal and I ended up tipping the waitress somewhere around 25 dollars because that’s what the meal should have cost, and that was because she was patient with me and made sure I was happy. My dog was happy too 
I haven’t read this thread because it will probably piss me off, but I just want to add that we had a player tip 4K on Wednesday after buying in for 4K and winning 196K and he also tipped 17K on Friday after buying in for 10K and winning roughly 300K. This brought our hourly tip wage (before our base pay) to just over $17/hr on Wed and just over $22/hr on Fri.
A couple of weeks ago we had a roulette dealer get tipped $500 after a guy won 10.5K on one spin of the wheel. His total tips that day were $1200.
Our tips are pooled among all table games dealers (roughly 500-600 of us) so tips are SUPER important!!!
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.[/quote]
Curses,…
I am a fan of Yo Momma
Just to be clear I do tip, and I am not a bad tipper.
I only ask why tip when they could be paid a wage.
I worked retail at Toys R Us and had to put up with masturbaters, a crazy guy who was slashing the genital region of Barbie Dolls, and even was asked to look for a bomb. This was during the Pound Puppy, Power Ranger, Cabbage Patch kid phase when I was yelled at for being a Jew since the ads come out on Sunday so she said it was a conspiracy that temple dwellers were able to shop on Sunday.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.[/quote]
I can’t understand why you would feel this way when you KNOW a server at the top of their game is pullin’ in a big 30 G’s a year. That’s simply an obscene amount of money. THOSE are the people Obama should be going after and forcing to pay their fair share! THOSE are the folks causing us as a society to not be able to afford to pay our teachers well.
Hairdressers too! They are wealthy beyond words and DO NOT DESERVE A TIP. Fuckers!
Knock those affluent servers down a peg or two by undertipping them or not tipping at all. I mean, why be charitable to the rich? Gee fuckin whiz![/quote]
The fact there is this social stigma around not tipping at least x% is just as intrusive. Plus as I mentioned earlier posts, I dislike the incentives the tipping system creates for wait staff to maximize their tips.
I also like the idea of a higher wage and no tips.
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Anyone who ever worked as a waitperson/server are usually the biggest tippers. They know what a hard job it is, dealing with a wide assortment of assholes, cheapskates, snobs, drama queens, ass-grabbers, tit-grabbers, drunks, jerks, and the customers. I’m a big tipper, they deserve it.[/quote]
I’ve never worked a front of a restaurant but I’ve worked the back of the house in a few different places. I always try to tip because I know what they have to deal with. I’ll find myself doing little things like piling all the trash up and stacking plates/cups and putting them near the edge of the table so they’re easier for the waitress or busser to collect.[/quote]
Haha! I was a busboy in college, so I empathize and do just as you do when finished a meal.
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[quote]therajraj wrote:
The fact there is this social stigma around not tipping at least x% is just as intrusive. Plus as I mentioned earlier posts, I dislike the incentives the tipping system creates for wait staff to maximize their tips.
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for some reason this forums are always sloooooow. But when I post something 4-5 moreposts show up. Not sure what is going on
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
The fact there is this social stigma around not tipping at least x% is just as intrusive. Plus as I mentioned earlier posts, I dislike the incentives the tipping system creates for wait staff to maximize their tips.
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LOL - He actually grew up 30min away from me. I also saw him perform live at my uni in 2004. But I do tip in fear of being a social pariah. I’d just rather get the same amount of attention from wait staff as the middle aged white dude wearing suit.
Push,
Were you being sarcastic about the 30 Gs being “obscene” ? Please tell me you were being sarcastic.
30 Gs is just above the poverty line, my friend.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
I only ask why tip when they could be paid a wage.
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Same reason why sales people have shitty base salaries:
The system is setup so that they can barely–if not at all–survive on that base; they have to WORK hard for their commission, or tips in the case of servers.
Why is that difficult to comprehend for people?
And if the argument is: Well, let’s pay tips to other people who work in service and face customers!
The answer: due to tradition, how can you expect customers to get on board with the idea of tipping for service outside of the food/drink industry, for service that MOST AMERICANS do not tip on? (e.g. retail sales clothing…even though some would get commission)
Also, a job like a mechanic has the professional working on something (the car) and not checking up on the customer the way a server needs to. They’re not service jobs that are directly comparable, so you can’t equate their salary systems.
Counter argument for OG and gang:
Would you prefer a gratuity system (like current system) if you KNEW you’d get highly variable service at a restaurant? If you knew you’d get consistently BAD SERVICE? That being if you knew that tips would change this and INCENTIVIZE good service.
Would you go back to tipping if the system had tips built into the price of goods and servers paid a flat wage, would you go back if you got BAD SERVICE and knew you’d get BETTER service if you gave tips (old system)?
Answer the question, and not with another question.
Late to the party, however, as a couple of people have stated, I tip based on the service I receive. If you have a stinkin-ass attitude, you get nothing. If you bend over backwards, and are personable to boot, then yeah, I’ll tip very well. Very few meet the latter, unfortunately. I’ve been to a lot of restaurants on both ends of the spectrum. My standard doesn’t change.
As for tip jars, same rule applies. If you’re pretty amiable and courteous, then I’ll drop a couple of bucks in the jar. Just for serving me coffee, or providing the cup.
Excellent actor, upstanding patron:
http://www.hollyscoop.com/johnny-depp/johnny-depp-leaves-4000-tip-for-waiter_20656.aspx