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Prisoner#1
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Anthony917]
#14110898 - 03/12/11 07:41 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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edit: btw pris that was an undeserved warning
incorrect... flaming is flaming and like with my service as a waiter, I strive for consistency
read the rules, abide by them and I wont boot you out like I did the cop that couldnt read the sight that said 'no fire arms on premises'
"but I'm a cop"
"but leave your gun in the car or get the fuck out, them's the rules"
the cop was a dick about me being armed at 2am, I was legal
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Cakk


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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14110909 - 03/12/11 07:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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15% if it's at an average restaurant. 20% if it's at a nicer one like Pf changs
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nicechrisman
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14110915 - 03/12/11 07:44 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I usually tip about 20%. I usually go to the same restaurants pretty often (I live downtown), so it's worth it to me to have a good relationship with my servers. If I get hooked up (which I often do) then I tip more.
I'm always wondering what the real protocol is for tipping at places where you order at the counter. I don't tend to tip as much at those places, unless it's a really cute girl or something.
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tiny_rabid_birds
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man. i'm really surprised to see this thread has grown as much as it has whilst i was at work. honestly, i can't imagine there's much else to be argued beyond the point of "if you don't want to tip, order your food as take-out." plain and simple, man. very simple solution to a very simple problem.
don't be a dick and waste someone's precious time while they're on the job.
imo, there is no excuse to act otherwise. if you sit down, receive full service, then tip nothing, you are an asshole. period.
don't want to tip? don't accept the service. not fucking hard to comprehend.
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i really like your sig TRB
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: blood4blood]
#14111943 - 03/12/11 10:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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blood4blood said: i tip not a dime. hate the stigma associated with tipping. why don't you tip the cooks, they're doing most the work?
ever tip anybody at a fast food joint? they bust their asses there when they get a rush of people.
Also servers have to tip out the hostess/food runner/ w/e so know that when you come in and run up even a $50 tab w/o tipping it actually COSTS ME MONEY TO SERVE YOU.
If you don't like to tip order your food takeout.
wow! you brought me out some food, you deserve extra money
trust me, that doesn't happen everywhere. I have a lot of friends as servers and they dont have to do that and if they did they would lie about what they took in for tips. but of course, your the one honest guy in the world right?
and ill take my food any fucking way i like it! i am taking a large group of friends out to dinner later tonight and wont tip a cent! quite crying already or find a new job.
If that's how you feel, you should just cook your own food and serve it to yourself. Honestly, you're paying for them to make sure your meal is right, deal with the cooks when they fuck up as well as your dumbass thinking it's "the server's fault."
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Dank_Trichome


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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14112394 - 03/13/11 12:11 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: What if they can barely afford to treat themselves to dinner at your workplace, you still gonna fuck with there food and be a massive douchebag simply cause they cant afford to tip? The way you talk Im betting your service falls short of anything decent.
I guess you wouldn't know because you don't tip, but it usually occurs at the END of the meal. People who don't tip receive the same service everybody else does, and I don't follow them out of the restaurant berating them.
I curse softly and move on.
It's baffling how vehemently you feel you have to defend your position to some anonymous on the internet
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I do tip just not that often lately cause I have been tight on money. BTW I meant that for the next time they come around 
What I dont get is your need to call people who dont feel like tipping you asshole's and all around tools. Not everyone out there cares to throw down a extra 15% for your services regardless of weather it was good or not.
Deal with it.
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Dank_Trichome


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Well here is my announcement to the world so there is no more confusion
If you don't tip, I think you are a tool.
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tiny_rabid_birds
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Dank_Trichome said: If you don't tip, I think you are a tool.

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if you can't afford to tip, then you can't afford to eat at the establishment
go cook at home or grab something at WackArnolds
if it's booze, then buy booze and drink elsewhere
if the service is absolute shit, register a complaint and leave nothing
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BeverageFace
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Bodhi of Ankou said: No ones wasting your time or money its your job to serve people, tips are a perk not a expectation. Then again I live in Canada and we arnt socially pressured to have to support needy broke ass students habits with tips.
You are an idiot. Do you think our servers are paid the same minimum wage as others? They aren't. And don't try to portray our culture as one that doesn't tip. If you don't tip, don't go out. Don't try to make it into anything other than you being a cheap fuck. Have fun with your 50$ red lobster dinners.
Anyone who understands food, and the food industry, understands tipping. The only people I can imagine not tipping are low-brow folk who wouldn't have the knowledge to even understand and appreciate good food, let alone good service.
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Bodhi of Ankou
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Thank you for noticing and from now on I think Ill leave piles of pennies as tips.
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BeverageFace
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How about this. If you cheap fucks don't want to pay for the service you receive, then try helping yourself next time you are out at a resto or the bar. See how fast the security tosses your ass out.
Seems fair if you are too cheap to tip for good service right?
On a side note, here in ontario I don't really watch what I tip. I've tipped up to 100% when at a pub I used to hit every night, it was newyears and I was a bit too done and dropped a pint glass and a server i often had, had to clean it up. I felt really bad, and she was already busting her ass, and was cool about it. So she deserved it. Most of the time I tell myself 15%, but normally it ends up to be 20% or so.
Some ethnic restos though i give shit tips, a lot just dont seem to get that in north america it isnt custom to bring the food out and then never acknowledge the customer. Good food, but 10% or so for the service. Even less for those times there is a problem with the food but the server doesn't come around to check.
Someone has told me, If service is bad, leave a bad tip a few percent. Leaving zero tip only shows the server you are cheap and can't afford the luxury of eating out anyways.
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Cynosure]
#14113156 - 03/13/11 07:15 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah... I still read "tripping at restaurants" every time I see this thread. 
Anyway, to those of you getting so aggravated over people who don't like tipping: take your complaint to your goddamn boss. Unionize or something. Shit man why are you holding us responsible for the shitty system you're working for that doesn't pay you enough to get by without relying on the charity of customers? That is fucked up, dude.
I always tip when I can but yeah, I don't feel like it's something I have to do.
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Beanhead
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Tipping barely gets done here... you guys tip someone 10-30 percent of the bill?
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Sophistic Radiance
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Beanhead]
#14113179 - 03/13/11 07:36 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Beanhead said: Tipping barely gets done here... you guys tip someone 10-30 percent of the bill?
HOLY SHIT AMERICA THE LAND OF FLYING COWS AND STREAMS OF HONEY 
Yeah man, I've been reading about this in my comparative politics class. America is AMAZINGLY good at fucking over its wage workers and the whole union system is being dismantled as we speak, and it's treated in the media like it's not even a serious problem. People are so disconnected from any kind of awareness of their place in their systems it's mind-boggling.
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Tchan909 said: the whole union system is being dismantled as we speak.
Good riddens
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Re: Tipping at restaurants. [Re: Cynosure]
#14113203 - 03/13/11 07:51 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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What I don't agree with especially is that the ridiculously low hourly wage of a restaurant server is used to justify the "you must tip or you're a douchebag" paradigm. So it's the customer's responsibility to properly pay the employees, not the owner of the business?.. yeah fucking right. 
Regardless I tip around 20% if the service is average to good. Less to none if it is terrible. I worked as a server before so I know what it is like to struggle for tips.
Nowadays I don't tip at all because I live in Europe and here servers are paid a normal living wage. All I do now is round up to the next Euro for easy whole number change.
Also, I first read tripping at restaurants too
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Yeah, you are being treated pretty unfairly. These people who work in the food industry are acting like because of people like you they are starving to death when in reality I bet they all make far above minimum wage. "Oh boo hoo my hourly wage is crap." Yeah? How much do you take home? And do you report all of your tips to the government?
This argument also that you are not entitled to service at a restaurant is also horse shit. The truth is that you are entitled. If you weren't, you would have to tip before being served. As it really is, waitstaff are not entitled to tips.
Let's face it. Waiting tables is UNSKILLED labor that anybody can do. The way everyone is acting in this thread you would think they would rather be paid minimum wage and have tipping abolished so that they can finally get what they deserve for what they do.
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