How do you feel about tipping when you get poor service?

[slunken]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

What's completely fucked up is that the last time I worked in a restaurant was 25 yrs ago. I think my base rate was $2.13 at the time too.

it essentially still is for servers.

[Bread Regal]

it's hard for me to imagine a scenario where i wouldn't tip at all. if their service was so bad that i wouldn't tip, i'd be driven to tell the manager about it.

i make a point of tipping the greater of 5 bucks or 20% every time. sometimes i will push the number up to 8 depending on the kind of place.

[D.]

I do 15-20 but round it even because I have a thing about making totals even or palindromes. So if my food bill is like $15.72 I'm prob gonna tip either 3.28 or 4.28 to get an even 19 or 20.

Gas has to be an even say $45 or if I miss that and my tank is full, top it to 45.45 or even 45.54

[slunken]

I take the first number of the bill and double it give or take.

[butthurt]

[hnibos]

Just has to be Florida

[Trotskilicious]

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[Order 66]

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

[Trotskilicious]

I love that fuckin feed

[MyOneAndOnly]

Seriously tho Florida isn't all bad. Especially compared to Alabama or Mississippi

[yo soy el mejor]

there is a minimum i will go even for shit service. but i tip a whole lot more when it's enjoyable. i have found that when i am out with girl friends, girl servers will ignore us for a table of guys. it makes us tip less which just confirms their assumptions.

my friend melissa, though, will tell girls. 'hey, just because we're girls doesn't mean we're not gonna tip.' we're pretty loquacious when we're together so we always end up making friends with our server. we got one to sit down with us and take a shot. we hung out with another when she got out. one time we bought 6 calendars and 4 desserts from a girl at hooters because those who sold the most calendars and desserts got new years eve off.

[duovamp]

Literally nobody cares how you tip. Jus sayin.

[noyen]

too drunk to remember

[yo soy el mejor]

at ease

[F.Delacroix]

lots of dumb shit itt

[Trotskilicious]

hey mayfuck, how's stuff

[yo soy el mejor]

literally

[juliana]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

That's illegal for Americans!

Not illegal for canadians at all, pretty common/popular travel destination.

Americans still go, but I advise americans to not go unless you have a EU or Canadian passport and bring EU or Can dollars. The casa I stayed in had some americans. They were so stupid to go to cuba. They had to pay a fine to get in and pay extra to have their money changed. And then the dummies ran out of money partying with who they thought was fidel's nephew and they were too dumb to realize that most places in cuba don't take credit cards. I don't know what happened to them but the last I saw of them they were meeting some domincan guy that was going to help them out to get money. So they are probably dead.

Also, they will curse you in the streets if they think you are american.

[Trotskilicious]

no they don't

[Sonic Johnny]

Hey yanks:

If you need to pay 20% on top of the cost of your meal so your wait staff can pay their rent, your minimum wage is too low. Sort that shit out. It is not cool.

[mxzombie]

if you don't leave a tip, how will the server know you aren't just ignorant of the expectation to tip? maybe you forgot. you end up looking bad either way.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Hey yanks:

If you need to pay 20% on top of the cost of your meal so your wait staff can pay their rent, your minimum wage is too low. Sort that shit out. It is not cool.

The tipped minimum wage is much much much lower than the uhhh not tipped minimum wage. As has been discussed.

We know the system is fucked. Unfortunately netphorians don't run shit

[jczeroman]

I think I argued with people on here about tipping for about 40 pages in 2002.

[slunken]

that sounds like quite a battle

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Hey yanks:

If you need to pay 20% on top of the cost of your meal so your wait staff can pay their rent, your minimum wage is too low. Sort that shit out. It is not cool.

Germany has no minimum wage, low (sometimes no) tips are acceptable and server wages are perfectly livable.

[Bread Regal]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Germany has no minimum wage, low (sometimes no) tips are acceptable and server wages are perfectly livable.

A quick google search reveals that germany recently implemented a minimum wage this year. I wonder why they would pass such a law if wages were until now "perfectly livable".

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

The last time I was in (southern) Spain I was traveling with an Indian guy who was a Vegetarian. Every time we went to a restaurant the first thing he'd say to the server in English was that he didn't speak Spanish and that he was a vegetarian. He raise his voice and almost shout to them "No Meat! No Meat in my order!" As if making a scene and getting the entire dining room full of customers to stare at us would somehow make the Server understand him better.

Every single thing he ordered that week ended up having ham in it.

The guy made no fucking effort at all to use even a single word of Spanish the whole time we were there. I'm pretty sure that most of the servers we dealt with knew English but acted like they didn't just because he was suck a complete asshole

No carne por favor? I failed Spanish 1 in high school, but I'm not as big of a dumbass as your pal :/

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

I think I argued with people on here about tipping for about 40 pages in 2002.

I'm guessing it went something like this:

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

A quick google search reveals that germany recently implemented a minimum wage this year. I wonder why they would pass such a law if wages were until now "perfectly livable".

A quick google search reveals that waiters made more than the brand new minimum wage (admittedly, I do not read Der Spiegel every day or follow the minutiae of German labour law). Moreover, a quick google search reveals that waiters weren't dying in the streets prior to .. oh wait, a quick google search reveals that it hasn't been implemented yet. I hope they can survive on the breadcrumbs they are making until 2015.

[Bread Regal]

You do have a point. Wage disparity doesn't start to become a real concern until people starve to death. Until a society reaches that point, the social effects of low wages are negligible, at best.