Octobergirl
“Oh how you suffered from a “watered down soft drink” the AGONY!!!”
FUCK YOU BITCH!
“Well this is one mean SOB that thinks Karma gave you what you were putting out.”
NO, I WASN’T MEAN and I said “Thank you” when she brought me my soft drink the first time around. I am A NICE PERSON!
“I hope you post more of the terrible travails you have to experience in your truly tortured life.”
FUCK YOU BITCH! I hope someone is mean to you.
[quote]hankr wrote:
Wow. This turned into a big thread.
My 0.02: Tip generously, unless the srvice really sucks.
Esp if it is someplace you go a lot. At the bar I most frequent, if my tab for drinks and a snack is 12 or more, I just give her a 20. If all I have is a coke, she gets a 5.
I have heard others complain about the same waitress that comes right over to me when I walk in the door and gets my order. Fair or not, you get what you pay for.
Last week I was in a place I used to visit maybe once every two months. The waitress on duty hadn’t seen me for 3-4 months. Comes right over with my usual, calls me by name. It’s worth it.
Plus, I’ve worked food service. It sucks.[/quote]
I bet your next post will be from a Bell Tower and you will be muttering abot how much you don’t like Mondays.
[quote]Springs1 wrote:
Octobergirl
“Oh how you suffered from a “watered down soft drink” the AGONY!!!”
FUCK YOU BITCH!
“Well this is one mean SOB that thinks Karma gave you what you were putting out.”
NO, I WASN’T MEAN and I said “Thank you” when she brought me my soft drink the first time around. I am A NICE PERSON!
“I hope you post more of the terrible travails you have to experience in your truly tortured life.”
FUCK YOU BITCH! I hope someone is mean to you.
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TSB! HAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!
Go bother someone else. You’re mildly amusing at best. Mildly irritating at worst.
Since this thread has been revived…
I agree somewhat with not tipping so much based on percentage. If I come in there with two people, we kill $80 worth of food/drink in 20 minutes and leave, I’m probably not dropping $16 as a tip, probably more like $10-12. On the other hand, a buddy of mine and I often go to Olive Garden for their all-you-can-eat special after lifting and we might be there for an hour to an hour and a half, getting refill after refill. Considering the total cost for the meal will be about $15, a 20% tip would be complete bullshit for taking up that much of the servers time. Often in that case, our tip is usual equal or more than the cost of the meal itself.
If you are a repeat customer somewhere, it certainly pays to tip well. My family and I have gone to the same restaurant for a few years, typically at least once a week and typically request the same couple of servers (my father in particular is very picky about service) and usually tip very well 25-30% usually. We rarely wait more than 2-3 minutes for a table (even if there is a big line in front of us), our drinks never seem to get empty (or charged), etc. Showing somebody that you appreciate their hard work (by tipping well, requesting them, etc.), is not only a nice thing to do, you usually wind up getting even better service than before. I’ll gladly pay $5 extra per meal to have the server treat me like his long-lost brother every time I sit down to eat.
A good portion of my family and close friends are in the restaurant business and most have worked as servers at some point. A good tip can make somebody’s day/night. And it only costs you about $5 more, often not even that. Most of us wouldn’t hesitate to spend $5 more if it meant something better for us (how many of us shop organic in here? or buy Biotest over shit-brand protein powders?), but some are so selfish when it comes to helping out somebody else!
… plus I don’t want to get my drink spit in!
[quote]Springs1 wrote:
FUCK YOU BITCH! I hope someone is mean to you.
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Oh yeah? Well I’m taking my ball and going home! And none of you can play with my toys either! Ha!
[quote]Springs1 wrote:
Octobergirl
“Oh how you suffered from a “watered down soft drink” the AGONY!!!”
FUCK YOU BITCH!
“Well this is one mean SOB that thinks Karma gave you what you were putting out.”
NO, I WASN’T MEAN and I said “Thank you” when she brought me my soft drink the first time around. I am A NICE PERSON!
“I hope you post more of the terrible travails you have to experience in your truly tortured life.”
FUCK YOU BITCH! I hope someone is mean to you.
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WTF? Did you forget your medicine today?
Few things you need to realize about this place “Springs1”–
We don’t say “FUCK YOU BITCH” to people when we don’t have anything constructive to say. It only shows your lack of intelligence and lack of any sort of personality.
Learn how to actually quote someone. It’s really not that hard.
TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A RETARD.
I can’t think of a 4th thing so I’ll just wait until you respond with your flailing text and I’m sure something will come to mind.
Tips are to be earned, not expected. If you do nothing to earn a tip, you wont get one from me. Your getting paid to serve me. If you go above and beyond what is required, then I tip and I tip well. If the service is bad or you just dont do anything more then you have to, I wont tip, you dont deserve it.
Quit whining, people should be happy they got a tip, no matter how bad it is.
[quote]Otataral wrote:
Your getting paid to serve me.[/quote]
Nope. My paychecks are usually less than $5 per week. Some states are different (CA for example), but most states pay their servers $2.13 per hour and most of that goes to taxes.
$2.13 an hour? ouch. and I complain that i’m only making 12 dollars. Mind you i’m in Canada and my min wages is about $10.00 an hour. I’m surprised at how little you get paid.
[quote]Springs1 wrote:
FUCK YOU BITCH!
NO, I WASN’T MEAN and I said “Thank you” when she brought me my soft drink the first time around. I am A NICE PERSON!
FUCK YOU BITCH! I hope someone is mean to you.
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Wow. She really struck a chord there huh?
[quote]Otataral wrote:
$2.13 an hour? ouch. and I complain that i’m only making 12 dollars. Mind you i’m in Canada and my min wages is about $10.00 an hour. I’m surprised at how little you get paid.[/quote]
Well it’s probably different in Canada. Most Canadians and Europeans don’t tip well, and it’s probably because servers actually get paid there. But in most states in the US, tips are the server’s sole source of income.
I don’t think iit should be based on that is what I mean.
[quote]OneEye wrote:
demonthrall wrote:
i dont like the idea of a tip being based upon the dollar amount of the food presented…
i dont think two fifty dollar meals deserves a 20 dollar tip, but i do think the table with 8 $6 kids meals, one without ketchup, one with chips not fries, three cokes, a mello yellow, a half orange and pepsi… refills every 5 minutes… etc… does deserve a 20 dollar tip.
It’s all about percentage. I have to pay a percentage of sales (regardless of how much you tip) to the bar, busser, and runners, so if you give me a shitty percentage, it’s a bigger chunk out of my pocket, percentage-wise. Make sense?
Meaning, if your bill is $100, I have to tip out $4. It doesn’t matter if you tip me $20 (in which case I keep $16 of it) or if you stiff me (in which case I’m now $4 in the hole), I still have to pay $4. Because of this, one or two bad tables can really screw up my shift.
Side note: I can’t believe this thread got resurrected. Let it die. This guy (Springs1) PMed me this whole post too, trying to piss me off and start shit. I’m not interested. There’s no reason not to leave a decent tip, assuming the server did his job, and with a good attitude.
If something is wrong, the server should fix it. If it’s his fault, he should admit it to his table instead of passing the blame. But if he fixes it and/or it wasn’t his fault, give your server a break.
I’m not talking about bad servers expecting 20% every time, I’m talking about good servers that have been doing this a long time and bust their asses to make everything good for their table, only to get a bad tip afterwards because the table is cheap. It happens all the time and there’s no damn reason for it.[/quote]
I’ve waited tables and bartended on and off for the last couples of years while I’m in college. The largest paycheck I’ve ever recieved from waiting tables was for a whopping $3.43, and in the last 6 months i havent gotten a paycheck at all. So whenever in doubt go ahead and leave the good server a couple extra bucks, because you’re not going to miss it and it’ll make the server’s night especially if you plan on ever coming back.
Here is an interesting article on the subject.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050905ta_talk_surowiecki
Personally I tip based on service rendered. If it is good service a good tip is had. If bad service ensues then little to no tip.