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at cheap buffet places such as souplantation, old country buffet, i always tip $1/person or so and round up. e.g., if there are 3-5 ppl i just tip $5. i'm not the only one as i see other tables leaving tips as well.
at expensive buffet places such as in vegas where it is around $50/person before taxes, i tip around $5-$10/person.
If you are too frugal to tip, you should not go to restaurants that have servers.
Frugality should not be a factor at all.
This.
These days I tip 20%. A bit less if the service was REALLY bad, but that's unusual.
Also, if I go somewhere and just get a soda or cup of coffee but it's constantly re-filled, I don't tip 20%...I go up to 40-50%. I also don't hang around and suck down coffee if there are people waiting for a table.
While we can ignore the 25% wanted by servers, until it becomes the standard, 20% is "par" in New York. I'm recently removed from Boston, another place where 20% is "par". Here in Atlanta, I believe the standard is still 15% though I haven't gotten out of the habit of 20% yet - not very frugal of me.
No,,no u were totally correct in paying more. Although it has been a long time, I'm 61 & I was 16 then, I basically lived on the tips. So, because of that, although I very seldom eat out- sushi is the one thing I go out for, maybe once a year, I tip very well. Been there, done that.
It also makes me think of when I worked as a secretary in the house keeping department & 1 of the "housekeepers had been a doctor in Russia,how terrible we treat these people.
at cheap buffet places such as souplantation, old country buffet, i always tip $1/person or so and round up. e.g., if there are 3-5 ppl i just tip $5. i'm not the only one as i see other tables leaving tips as well.
at expensive buffet places such as in vegas where it is around $50/person before taxes, i tip around $5-$10/person.
We left $5 in Vegas for a higher end buffet we went to. If I would go to say a Golden Corral, it's usually $2-3.
Do you all tip when getting take out orders? I typically don't. I always think it is interesting that they have the tip line there on take outs (i know this is done by the software automatically).
Restaurants are in business to serve customers. When they offer take-out service, the service being provided to you by the servers is still performed, up to and including delivering the food to the table. Just instead of the table, the food is packaged and run up to the cashier. Depending on the restaurant, this represented between a quarter and three quarters the work typically done by the server. The server is not compensated any differently for a take out order, so a gratuity is appropriate, albeit not a full gratuity. It is similar, in this way, as a gratuity for a buffet server. The patron is getting service, just not full service, so a lower gratuity is in order. A 5%-15% gratuity is typically correct for take-out orders.
I know a lot of people maniacally reject that notion, and go on and on in opposition to taking responsibility for the cost of service attributable to them for their take-out orders. People will rationalize all manner of poor behavior, but as long as the compensation system in the full-service restaurant industry is the way it is in the United States, it is appropriate to tip for take-out from full-service restaurants.
I am frugal, but I tip well. My minimum is 20% (unless service is bad). And I also tip on things that don't show up in the bill (so if, for example, I use a coupon to get a free kids meal with mine, I tip based on the cost I would have paid without the coupon).
That said, I also very rarely eat out and even more rarely eat at places where I am served. That's how I save money (not by stiffing the serving staff).
In any case I don't go out to eat much because it's just a waste of money.... that's my solution to the tipping problem.
I drive the half mile to pick up my pizzas in person.. things like that.
I always wondered about casinos... do they pay their servers normal wages? What about all these other professions you are supposed to tip at like hair stylists? I'm assuming they make a higher wage and don't really 'need' tipping.. when blue collar schmucks slave away for $12/hour somewhere with no tips I don't blame them for not wanting to tip a hair stylist that might make near the same wage or higher.
Of course everyone who posts on the internet is self made and pulls in $100K plus so they wouldn't understand.
They wouldn't understand what?
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