How Do You Tip? Or, How Cheap Are you?

[Juno]

Well?

[Eric]

I tip based on service. Snarky, self-centered, uptight waiters who're slow with the drinks get pennies. Dilligent, hard-working waiters get 10s and 20s. It's only fair.

[Justice and Mercy]

Depends on where I'm at.

Sit-in-car-and-wait services I give the remainder of the money as the tip. I hate waiting for change. Sometimes it's eight dollars, sometimes it's twenty cents.

Sit-in-restaurant-and-wait services I tip depending on service. Or how happy I am. If I'm in a really good mood I'll throw down sixty bucks.

Honestly.

[Ragabash]

Hmmm... I almost never tip, but then again, we don't have actual "tipping" culture here in Finland.

[Seleucus I Nicator]

I have never - that I can remember - tipped someone.

[IronBrig4]

If the service is satisfactory, I give them 15%. It's fair to give a reasonable tip for reasonable service.

[Exarch]

i tend not to tip, unless the service was exceptional.
i hated how wheni was in americ,a i was expected to tip, and i'd always get it wrong. there's a reaosn why it's called a gratuity, rather than an obligation.
or in germany where the tip is automatically calculated as part of the bill... or in oz where almost noone tips becasue u can live on minimum wage as a studnet in oz (most waiters are students anyway)

[Juno]

or in oz where almost noone tips becasue u can live on minimum wage as a studnet in oz (most waiters are students anyway)

Yeah, most of them here are students, too, but they get paid less than minimum sometimes. Even on minimum wage, it's pretty difficult to make end's meet alone.

I dine-and-dash, by the way.

[Magic Man]

In England you arent really expected to tip, apart from in some restaurants where the tipping culture has drifted over from the States.

I just tip a couple of quid, usually a fiver.

[Armfelt]

In my country the tip is included in their wage, so I don't usually tip as I like to keep it the way that they can live on their wage alone.

[Commander_Vimes]

I'm young enough,to get away with not tipping.

[Bovril]

I go with the magic 10% almost every time. I live in the UK BTW.

[removeduser_426582376423734]

If I break a note, its usually most of the smaller coins.

[Gary88]

i don't, in the UK waiter staff actually get paid and don't rely on tips. i will leave something if the person has been really friendly/useful but seeing as tipping culture has come over and all waiters are trying to act like that its rare that i do. in places where its expected of me i make an extra special effort not to. if your staff deserve more money then you should pay them, if you can't afford to then either your business is **** or you don't charge enough.

[James Cook]

i don't, in the UK waiter staff actually get paid and don't rely on tips. i will leave something if the person has been really friendly/useful but seeing as tipping culture has come over and all waiters are trying to act like that its rare that i do. in places where its expected of me i make an extra special effort not to. if your staff deserve more money then you should pay them, if you can't afford to then either your business is **** or you don't charge enough.

Well iam not from the uk, denmark is my land and bar staff allso get
paid here aswell.
but if they have been friendly, then why not.

Only small coins

[Ältester der Motten]

Varies from 50 cent to 1 €, mostly it goes up til it's the next even number in €.

[Gary88]

I dine-and-dash

you mean you eat and then run away without paying, thats disgraceful.

[Juno]

you mean you eat and then run away without paying, thats disgraceful.

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

[Eric]

Heh, once I was down in the States, eating at some restaurant. It was okay food, but the waiter was a self-centered, snarky, 18 year old punk. It took him an hour and a half to get me a coke, because he like, totally had better things to do [/sarcasm]. When I finally eat up and i'm about to get out of there, the damn waiter stops me on my way out. Here's our little dialect:

Waiter: "Hey man, what about a tip?"

Eric: "Don't piss into a headwind,"

Then I hand a 50 to the cashier and leave. I bet he acts better to customers now

[The Sundance Kid]

I'm a waiter myself so I'm gonna kill anyone who says they don't tip . In fact, I'm in work in half an hour. But in the States, tipping is a serious, almost official method of payment for waiters, they work for their tips and usually they aren't pooled; the waiter who claims the tip keeps the tip.

In England, I get 4 quid an hour. My usual shifts are around 5 hours long, so I get 20 quid a shift. But if I qork hard to please customers, chat with them, make them feel welcome, I can double that wage in tip money, and we pool it between waiters. We don't get money for our service; if tips didn't exist or weren't encouraged we wouldn't try to be nice and give the service people want, because hey, what're we getting out of it?

Whenever I eat out now, I always tip well, because of that old 'do to others what you would like done unto yourself' crap. I also have instinctual urges to clear my own plate...