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but it can't put a lime on top or wrap it in a napkin.

actually, there are bartending machines. press a button, it mixes your drink of choice.

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Originally posted by igottaknow i resent being obligated to overpay for a service. a vending machine could do a more efficient job of giving me a bottle of beer. tipping also seems to me like a step a way from prostitution. like the bigger tip i give you the more your supposed to act like you like me. gives me a strange fake feeling. like i'm bribing you to be my friend.

you go to weird prostitutes man.

I tip on what kind of service i get.


If you do shitty service, FUCK YOU, you're not getting shit.

If you do a very good service, you're gonna get a good tip.

Doesnt get easier than that

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Originally posted by SebG I tip on what kind of service i get. If you do shitty service, FUCK YOU, you're not getting shit. If you do a very good service, you're gonna get a good tip. Doesnt get easier than that

with bartending its not a cut and dry as that. Like if your at a pub on a Sat/Fri night. Its packed and the bartender is try to serving 20 ppl at once. I'm not blaming him for it I just don't think the service I'm receiving is worth the amount of tip. Is a pitchers or beer worth 3 times more of a tip than a glass?

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Originally posted by igottaknow with bartending its not a cut and dry as that. Like if your at a pub on a Sat/Fri night. Its packed and the bartender is try to serving 20 ppl at once. I'm not blaming him for it I just don't think the service I'm receiving is worth the tip. Is a pitchers or beer worth 3 times more of a tip than a glass?

This is different and you're right

How bartenders (or waiters, or others jobs where tips occurs) are paid varies from state to state, county to county, city to city.

In some locations they do make the regular ole minimum wage and it doesn't matter on the tips.

In other places, employers are allowed to base their hourly wage to include tips. So w/o tips, they make below the regular minimum wage.

But again, it varies.

In some places all tips (legally) have to be put into a central stash and then it's supposed to be divied up from there. Places like this tend to have worse service because there's not really any big benefit for a bartender/waiter/whatever to work extra hard when the extra tips he or she is making from working super hard to get aren't just going to him or her.

In the end, the law in most places is that tips are considered a part of your wages and those people are actually taxed on it.

A read something once where it talked about tipping a bartender properly. Was saying something about $1 per every two mixes. So if you got a long island or something, you should tip $2. But if you get like a vodka-redbull, that's $1. I don't go by that though, hehe.

So yes, it's proper to tip (in the US). But them asking you for a tip is straight up rude. What I do sometimes is that I'll just tell the bartender I'll take care of him or her later and then after a few more drinks if I get good service, and good strong drinks I'll give them a very good tip. Gotta be sure to go back to the same bartender. The single big tip sometimes pays off better than a few small tips because it's $$$ to their eyes. It often leads to some free drinks! If I feel my service has been lackluster then I'll leave a lousy tip or if they really piss me off I'll just bail -- rarely happens though.

In a few countries it's considered rude to tip because in their customs if you tip they take is you paying them work harder next time because you were satisfied. Just like in some places when you leave a place with your beer glass empty, it's a bit rude because they take is as you left because they didn't serve you again fast enough. Not because you were done or just full.

One other thing that Dave reminded is that the whole tipping system is ludicrous. They should be paid a regular hourly rate. Because it implies that you need to tip a person for him to do his job properly. Do you tip your mail man? or how about the cashier in the checkout line? Maybe you need to start tipping the guy who works the fitting room at the gap? Where does it end? Would it be too much to ask for you to just do your job without us needing to reward you?

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Originally posted by Boomer187 i always tip, and tip almost everyone. However if its shitty service they get tiny tip and and a snarl. good service = good tip which = continued good service.

yeah, i feel the same way.

but wtf is up w/ starbucks having a tip jar at their drive-up booth? i mean come on!

i hate the idea of tipping, however, because it's your JOB to give me stuff. I guess i can understand waiters/waitresses, but people like barbers, starbucks employees, gas attendants, auto mechanics, etc... it's like, come on, that's rediculous.

I always tip barbers...but yeah, I never put anything in the tip jar at regular business places.

Tipping - when not to:

When eating with Carl Cox, always let Carl tip.

Bartenders or waiting staff won't get paid on tips alone, that's not the system here and I doubt it's the system over there too. All the tips get rounded up in a jar and distributed along with the money earned at an hourly rate. I find myself tipping reasonably at restaurants I go to regularly but I don't often tip at all if I experience crappy service in a place i'm unlikely to return to.

Being shamed by a waitress in order to get more tips just doesn't happen over here or at least I've never experienced it. There also isn't as much as a "table service" culture in bars over here, there's only one place i know of in Glasgow where I could get table service and there the beer is ridiculously fucking overpriced anyhow so I find myself just waiting at the usually empty bar to get a drink. I've got my own two legs, fuck it.

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan anyhow so I find myself just waiting at the usually empty bar to get a drink. I've got my own two legs, fuck it.

yup.

however, if the bitch at the bar expects a tip and won't serve you further if you don't, that's just shitty.

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan Bartenders or waiting staff won't get paid on tips alone, that's not the system here and I doubt it's the system over there too. Being shamed by a waitress in order to get more tips just doesn't happen over here or at least I've never experienced it.

it isn't the case here, either, but they do get paid a reduced wage, under the assumption that they'll earn some reasonable amount of money from tips.

Also, that rarely happens, and when it does, it often gets someone fired.

The average wage for fully trained waiting staff over here is just under 12 dollars an hour. With an average of 20-30 dollars worth of tips on busy night it's definetly not a bad way of making money if you can put up with drunken idiots. When I scrubbed shitty toilet pans and cut grass I got paid less and nobody felt the need to tip me.

There's definetly some injustice in that. The onus should be with bar or restaurant that waiting staff shouldn't have to hassle for tips to make a living. If they want more money, sad as it sounds, they should try and get a better paying job.




"I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise."

OK, I have a little bit of knowledge on this subject given that I have been both cashier, waitress, and bartender.

Cashier - at least here in Ontario, cashiers receive at least the mandatory min. wage, or whatever the employer decides to give them, so long as it is min. wage or higher. You go to them, they do not come to you. They do not hand deliver you anything (other than perhaps a pack of cigs or something, but that doesn't really count).

Waitress - again, here in Ontario, waitress min. wage is a dollar less than the regular min. wage. So if min. wage is $7, a waitress will get $6. Legally you have to claim a MINIMUM of $1/hr worked in tips on your taxes, so you end up having to pay taxes on the tips, no matter how much you made. A lot of restaurants will also require a "tip out" which is a percentage of your total sales (sometimes up to 4% regardless of how much you made in tips). This tip out goes toward kitchen staff, bussers etc. So the waitress loses a large chunk of the tips they get. A waitress of course does a lot of running around, a lot of "waiting on" aka WAITress. Going to a sit down restaurant allows you this privelage. They could easily make it fast food style where you get your own food at the kitchen. Because you receive that courtesy, you are expected to tip.

Bartender - similar to a waitress, a bartender wage is a dollar less than the regular min. wage. Due to a total sale being far less than a meal, a bartender has to serve about 50 drinks to get the amount in tips as a waitress would get for one table. Not to mention, with cash and carry (meaning, no tab being run... paying as you get it) MANY people throw in a quarter or whatever, which is often far less than the 15%. Think about it... a mixed drink is 5 dollars - someone drops a quarter. This is a 5% tip. Again, bartenders are required to claim one dollar per hour on their taxes, whether they make that or not. If a bartender is full time, and you work during the week, or during the day, you could be making $1 per 2 or 3hrs. When they make more, it evens out.

Tipping is shit for both the customer, and the employee. If the employee gets fucked with a shitty tip just because the people are stingy, there is nothing they can do, and that means that they may be making less than the regular min. wage altogether.

One example for me when I got ROYALLY fucked:

I was working on a slow night as a waitress. I had maybe 5 tables in total. TWO of those tables paid via credit, and BOTH happened to forget to add a tip to the credit slip (took the wrong one - customer slip vs. merchant). At the end of the night, I paid out what I owed the restaurant, and then deducted the 3% as my tip out, and I actually ended up with only $7 for myself... for the entire night. Needless to say, I was very upset. My tipout was much higher than I had left over for myself.

EX:

$632 total sales

18.96 (3%)

26.00 total tips
- 18.96
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7 dollars for me

I was pissed off.

Anyway, waitresses and bartenders both go through a lot of bullshit dealing with impatient/asshole/borderline retarded customers, they deal with people "dining and dashing" which they often have to pay for out of their own pockets, and they deal with a lot of harassment. All of this AND they get paid a dollar less an hour. They deserve those tips.

Yes, tipping sucks. I hate tipping too. However, the way our systems are set up, a tip is expected because they assume you know it is part of the cost of the experience. They just happen to be giving YOU the option to choose how much the deserve.

If they took away tips, the cost of your meals/drinks/etc. would go up to pay for the servers wages anyway.

is it me or have i not seen physical appearance mentioned once as criteria for tipping. Seriously...don't you feel a little silly giving the same amount to an ugly girl as one that isn't a total beast.
Even without sex, all customs between the sexes should be applied. Including you not getting desert due to headache/period.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Dunno. Here in Australia hardly anyone tips, ever. It's really not customary.

+0.5

Although we don't usually tip in Brazil either, we do pay an extra 10% which is supposedly the waiter's share. That's messed up, though. When you order something that should cost 10 reais, you actually end up paying 11. They should write that on the menu and deal with the waiter's wage themselves.

I valet so I know what the deal is when it comes to tips

My tip thing is

Valet: atleast 2$ is good because might be more than one valet they are splitting the tips with. Also if you want that front spot no questions asked, throw the valet 5$ or more when you arrive to be valeted

Bartender: I usual give 1$ per drink ordered, eg.. 2 drinks 2$, unless its an open bar. In this situation you tip I would tip 20$ up front and you will not have to wait for another drink the rest of the night.

Waiter: 15-25% of check

3rd world country tipping?

I'd go over 10 percent if she took me round back and sucked my dick.

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Originally posted by Lira +0.5 Although we don't usually tip in Brazil either, we do pay an extra 10% which is supposedly the waiter's share. That's messed up, though. When you order something that should cost 10 reais, you actually end up paying 11. They should write that on the menu and deal with the waiter's wage themselves.

I actually like the tipping system. It allows you to control just how much you pay for you meal to match what you thought of it. If tips were not allowed, they would have to be factored into the total price anyway. At least this way you have some control over how much you pay.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail I actually like the tipping system. It allows you to control just how much you pay for you meal to match what you thought of it. If tips were not allowed, they would have to be factored into the total price anyway. At least this way you have some control over how much you pay.

hmm... yeah, you do have a point.

The problem is that this 10% seems to be the waiter's wage (I've never really asked them ). Shouldn't the establishment pay the waiting staff their salaries so we could tip as much as we think the service deserves?

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Originally posted by all-nite-freak 3rd world country tipping?

You're confusing me already, mate - are you joking or are you really being hostile about me living in a "3rd world country"? You always sound rude about it

lira i tell my girlfriends to die in a fire and choke on hell during orgasm...i think im being sarcastic.

ive never tipped anyone in my life

i think its just an american thing

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Originally posted by all-nite-freak lira i tell my girlfriends to die in a fire and choke on hell during orgasm...i think im being sarcastic.

Oh, it's all right then, I was just wondering whether I had done something wrong. In that case...

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Originally posted by all-nite-freak 3rd world country tipping?

Tipping!?

THIS IS RANSOM!!!!

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