Thread: The practice of Tipping

Originally Posted by Arrianna

Siiigh....

This topic explodes in the paper here once a year.

It's a gratuity. That means it's supposed to be A) optional and B) something that is a reflection of your gratitude for their service.

The biggest problem isn't tipping but the lower minumum wage for servers. The employers pay them crap and then expect the customer to cover the rest. If you don't your accused of being cheap. In spite of that, I personally tip as a reflection of the service. It doesn't always make me friends.

Thing is, I undrestand that in countries where servers get a decent wage they don't have this problem. So yes, it's a problem that has gotten out of hand.

Aye. If the service is bad, the tip is bad. But if it's good? They get 6 to 5 dollars. I believe a 10 dollar tip is too much.

Tipping is something that I do out of gratitude, like Arrianna mentioned. If the service is good, they get a better tip, if the service sucks, then they don't get a big tip and sometimes not one at all.

yes, preformance does affect the tip.

In my case, all my friends tip way too much. they tip, [my gosh] like 45% ish or something. thats a bit insane.(especially if they're in a BUFFET!) I say if the whoever is waiting on you actually brings you food or something, you tip.

I have acctually gotten flak from my friends for not tipping like, 20% on people who didn't do a slick of work for me.. I consider them idiotic, and i hope they acctually get something out of doing that. But tipping should be based on how much they work for you.

Originally Posted by pyoro-pyoro

yeah, so far I think we can all agree on one thing

good service= big tip
bad service = small or no tip

but who's to determine whether the service was good or not

Im with ya on that one completely.

Originally Posted by youth_anime_fan

yes, preformance does affect the tip.

In my case, all my friends tip way too much. they tip, [my gosh] like 45% ish or something. thats a bit insane.(especially if they're in a BUFFET!) I say if the whoever is waiting on you actually brings you food or something, you tip.

I have acctually gotten flak from my friends for not tipping like, 20% on people who didn't do a slick of work for me.. I consider them idiotic, and i hope they acctually get something out of doing that. But tipping should be based on how much they work for you.

yeah but speaking of friends, some of mine believed it is an adult thing even though we are eating out. Here's what they say, "We're young, so we shouldn't have to give a cent."

If the waitress... or waiter... is nice i'll give a $10.00 tip... other wise... a 2 dollar tip is all they'll recieve.

Originally Posted by Seshoumaru

I don't live in the USA, so I know little about tipping there. From what I have understood from your posts, people have to rely more on tipping as a salary than the salary itself paid by the employer, because the get paid minimum or sometimes even less.

Actually they're lucky to get minumum wage let alone more then that. There is actually a lower minumum wage for servers and their employers only have to pay them more if their tips don't bring it up to the regular minumum wage.

It's rediculous.