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10%? If you buy lunch for 7.00 you only leave .70? - I suggest you don't eat out if you can't at least leave 15% minimum for decent service. $20.00 tip is appropriate for a $100 meal.
what kind of $7 meal are you eating that requires tipping in the first place? And who are you to determine "appropriateness" of a tip? The tips going to be whatever I feel like tipping, as such is the tipping culture. Don't like it? Work in a different industry where the pay isn't dependent on how well you are at keeping someone's mood up/happy. Even an angry plumber gets paid as well as a happy one for example.
10%? If you buy lunch for 7.00 you only leave .70? - I suggest you don't eat out if you can't at least leave 15% minimum for decent service. $20.00 tip is appropriate for a $100 meal.
See, I don't understand why its all about the price. What if one person elects to purchase bottle service at a bar and spends $200 on a bottle of grey goose? Shall that person be obligated to hand over an additional $40 as a tip @ 20%? Sounds silly to me.
This same reasoning explains why a waitress at Waffle House gets so much less income than one at the ritziest restaurant in town, even though they have the same number of children at home to feed, clothe and send to college. But if we evened it out, then we'd be paying $20 in tip for a $5 breakfast and $20 in tip for the bottle of Grey Goose.
This same reasoning explains why a waitress at Waffle House gets so much less income than one at the ritziest restaurant in town, even though they have the same number of children at home to feed, clothe and send to college. But if we evened it out, then we'd be paying $20 in tip for a $5 breakfast and $20 in tip for the bottle of Grey Goose.
Furthermore, why would a mother who has kids at home even consider working at a place that barely pays enough? Why not try to work at those "ritzy" places????
Because many people who take jobs that offer inadequate pay have no offers of alternative employment (i.e., at ritzier eateries) at the current time and no other way to pay their bills without spending their time doing such poorly compensated work.
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I might be frugal, but I also used to be a server. So, I am not frugal/cheap when it comes to tipping, because I know what it is like. When I have good service I tip between 20-25%. It's typically just myself and my hubby and our bills are typically around $30 (two entrees and 2 sodas) so as long as the service was good they will get between $6-$8.
This same reasoning explains why a waitress at Waffle House gets so much less income than one at the ritziest restaurant in town, even though they have the same number of children at home to feed, clothe and send to college. But if we evened it out, then we'd be paying $20 in tip for a $5 breakfast and $20 in tip for the bottle of Grey Goose.
So I tip the person the same amount no matter the bill? I said above that I tip around 10% but I also have a minimum that I tip too if it drops below. IE, I'll tip at least $1 if I like the service, even if the meal is under $10. I'll tip $10 on a $100 meal. But if I like the service on a $20 meal, I'd tip $5-10 which is 25-50% of meal. I wouldn't tip $50 on a $100 meal however. The cost of the meal is mostly for the cook and the owner. If they want to share it with the wait staff, they can pay them better. Part of why I might tip at a more expensive place is because I'm eating there for a longer time. Since the amount of time I'm at somewhere also means I see the wait staff more, which I use to judge their service, though if I sit at a coffee house all afternoon, I'd still tip the person refilling it pretty well if they were polite and held a conversation (yeah, I consider social/conversational skills to be skills waiters/waitresses should have). Just getting the order correct is expected because they didn't get fired yet. If they want a tip, they need to do better than just get the order correct.
really, before asking how much to tip someone, ask why you're tipping them. What kind of service did they provide then consider how much it's worth "paying" for to get the same quality service the next time you come in.
I'm not entirely sure if I come off as frugal or cheap, but if I'm paying someone for a service, then the amount I pay is going to be proportional to how much of a service I get and the quality of it. Remember the wait staff only does service, the atmosphere isn't created by them, nor is the food, they can however ruin both.
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