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Originally Posted by fiddler
If the service is good, I tip. I generally will do 10% and round it up so it makes the bill even. If the service sucks, I don't tip. Why is this so complicated?
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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon
Good service is not as linked to good tips as everyone thinks. I work just as hard for a $1 bill to be thrown into my tip jar as I do for a five milkshake order that I get nothing for. It's not an incentive, it's the only way I can afford to live between paychecks.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
So that you don't get fired from your job that utilizes built in gratuity because it's an industry that always needs people who can replace you any time of day, regardless of the tip rates.
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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon
Built in gratuity at what percentage? And where does it apply? Does that mean you think all tips should be taxed?
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10%. I said this. Or 15% if the service was really outstanding. And yes I realize waitresses/waiters/etc work for the tips rather than the paycheck. I've seen it happen that after taxes a waiter's paycheck is like $2.35 or something like that. I have seen that. What I was saying that if you a) can't get my order right after multiple tries; b) can't manage to bring
simple drinks in a timely fashion; c) can't bring some napkins, etc, why am I going to tip you?
Case in point:
I was at Chili's on a Tuesday and they were exceptionally busy for a Tuesday night and they were short handed. Okay I understand that, however, there was only three of us, and we ordered three sweet teas to drink and so we'd have time to decide. Not really an overtly complicated drink order. It took us an HOUR to get our teas and for the waiter to come back to take our order. Then I ordered a steak medium-well, first one I got was sired (barely) and raw on the inside completely. So I sent it back and the next steak I got was burnt to a crisp. So I sent it back and I got a
cheese burger in return. It took 45 minutes for the feller to bring us some napkins for the fairly messy wings we had.
Did he get a tip? Sure. Learn to do his fu
cking job. (And the entire meal was comped.)