Waiters: How much do you tip out?
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I tip out 30%, the last place I worked was 40%. I'm curious what other waitpersons tip out elsewhere. Thanks 
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The last time I worked as a waiter it was a pulled house. Before that it was 10% to the bar and 20% to the busboy/girl.
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Yep, we don't have a bartender at this new place, so I'm only tipping 30%. 15% goes to the busser, and the other 15% is divided among the 4 cooks and 2 dishwashers. It is still a big chunk of change. On Tuesday night I tipped out $64 :eek:
Of course, that's a second hand story, so take it with a grain of salt. In Canada, I rarely run into poor waitstaff...maybe once every 20 or 30 times.
Aren't the cooks and dishwashers paid a salary?
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Do you know how much UK waiters make per hour (pre-tip)?
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With that in mind now, I usually tip 20-25% depending on how attentive and high standard the waitstaff can be. Many times my girlfriend will step in say that's too much or she'll handle the tips and I take the bill.
One can understand the waitstaff's plight when one has worked in those conditions....it takes tremendous patience waiting on some who have way too much to drink.
I could never do that kind of work now.
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you should be banned from going to resturants cause if you're not going to include a tip then stay at home. yet i bet you still demand excellent service when you're being served in a resturant, despite the fact that you think tipping is stupid and YOU (being the perfect being that you think you are) would NEVER do anything stupid. are you going to pay 20% more for your meals when dining out so that servers will be paid a decent wage?
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so what difference does it make if you give a 20% tip or if there's a 20% gratuity added to the bill or if you pay 20% for all of your meals and it gets passed down to the server as part of their wage?
no matter how you do it, the thing is you demand excellent service but are too cheap to pay for it.
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having waited on tables, working as a cashier, a hostess and a bartender in resturants, nope it doesn't piss me off at all
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Isn't this what makes a business successful?
Why would anyone open a restaurant to break even? It's not like it's a non-profit organization?
Simple solution, Don't eat out.
That sounds simple in theory. But when you take into account the other things that the restaurant owner has to pay for it's really is ridiculous. I watched a good friend of mine open a restaurant and it is challenging. If servers we're paid a higher hourly wage or a salary then the only restaurants we'd be eating at are Subway and Burger King.
Not all businesses are fair. They may seem fair to someone on the outside looking in. Nearly every different business and workplace is it's own unique entity. It's like comparing Apples and Oranges.
just a thought; if a server is going to make the same wage wether they give you fast, friendly, excellent service or slow, unfriendly, crappy service where does the server get the incentive to give anyone the former instead of the latter?
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how many hours did you work?
This is true and I agree with that. I believe this was mostly done because customers were not tipping properly in the 1st place.
sure you have a choice. if the service is bad then don't tip as much. if the resturant puts the gratuity on the bill, don't eat there.
seriously, if tipping is such a hardship for you then stay at home for all of your meals.
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Nowhere did I say tipping was a hardship. Rather, I said tipping was a rediculous practice.
Do you know in Europe tipping is not expected and rarely done. Yet service there is usually exceptional. They stive to please the customer. How can this be? Because the employees are well paid by the business owners and propriety is held in high esteem.
Tipping is also becoming acceptable in Europe these days. So do you think that these business owners aren't going to notice that and take certain monies and benefits from the employee?
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There seems to be a self-aggrandising tendency among US restaurant goers, I notice: to be openly boastful about how altruistic one is in tipping is often really a sly way of intimidating other people, by bragging about the size of one's expendible income. It's a barse ackwards version of the "My wife and I couldn't noticing that we are considerably richer than you" restaurant sketch from a few years back.