Tipping...an article...your thoughts...

[remphish1]

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/5-tips...d-waiter-432209

 

Maybe this is a taboo topic I am not sure. What's your tipping style? I usually do 15-18% I tip on tax and liquor which some do some don't. If the service is great I do 20%..if it is really great I do 25%. Bad service 10% or less...

 

Also..I have been getting in this debate. On a $15 men's haircut what would you tip? I never have a regular hair person so maybe that plays into it. The haircuts I get don't involve too much work as I don't have a lot of hair

[Good Old Neon]

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[explodo]

I tip between 15-20, usually on the higher end of that scale. Having worked for tips, I feel compelled to do it.

 

On a 15 Haircut, I would probably give a 20 and, so as to not seem like a cheap ass, not ask for any change back. Yesterday, for a ten dollar hair cut, I gave a three dollar tip.

[Guest Jules]

I don't tip. I over tip.

[cryptique]

I tend to tip in the neighborhood of 20%, though I do express my dissatisfaction with bad service by knocking that down a bit. Even for bad service, though, I still tip 10% or more, unless it was unforgivably bad, in which case I'm more likely to tip the change in my pocket and talk to the manager on the way out. (This has only ever happened once.)

 

For haircuts (mine cost $12.95), I tip $2 - 3. Usually 3, though I've gone down to $2 on occasion when they've annoyed me (I go to a shop run by several Chinese women who sometimes spend all their time shouting at each other in Chinese, though most of the time they're very sweet).

 

I have no idea what a pizza/sandwich delivery guy should be tipped -- mostly because I'm a cheap bastard and I always order carry-out.

[austrya]

I'm a generous tipper when it's deserved, usually leaving about 20-25%.

 

I go to the same cafe once every two weeks with one of my kids for breakfast. The girls who wait tables there usually have a Diet Coke waiting for me by the time I sit down and if I say "I'll have the usual" they know exactly what I want. You don't get that kind of service many places.

[Guest Jules]

I have no idea what a pizza/sandwich delivery guy should be tipped -- mostly because I'm a cheap bastard and I always order carry-out.

15-20%

[mfwahl]

On food, I always do 20 unless the service was really bad. My fiancee is a server while she's getting her Master's so I feel for them, but am also able to tell when it's bad if it's their fault or the back of the house/bad day/manaager's fault. If it's the server's fault, I can be merciless depending on my mood.

 

Drinks only, if I have a tab, I'll go either 20% or $1 per drink, whichever is higher. Now, I mostly or drink at places where I'll get hooked up, so my tips lately have been over 100%.

 

 

I think tipping is important, especially in the U.S. because it's built into the system. Restaurants can (and almost always do) pay severs below minimum wage because tips are expected. And being around a lot of people who have worked in tip-related industries, I've learned that there are way more people tha you would imagine who tip nothing at all.

[austrya]

I think tipping is important, especially in the U.S. because it's built into the system. Restaurants can (and almost always do) pay severs below minimum wage because tips are expected. And being around a lot of people who have worked in tip-related industries, I've learned that there are way more people tha you would imagine who tip nothing at all.

 

When my mom was 17, she was a server at a family type restaurant. She said on Sunday mornings the after church crowd would come in and there was always this group who had about 10 people in their party and they were notorious for never leaving a tip. The first time my mom had their table she tried extra hard to get them to leave a tip and when they left, she saw a $20 bill sticking out from under a napkin. She pulled it out and it was a piece of paper with the corner made to look like a $20 bill. It was an invitation to their church. She was pissed!!

[Central Scrutinizer]

I start at 20% just because it's easy to work out (double the total and move the decimale one place) and 15% is usually figured into whatever a person is paid as a base salary. A person who does a decent job and is conscientious deserves that because of all the dregs that provide bare-bones service with the expectation of that 15%. So if I start having to do the math, the service is either really great or really sucks.

 

When my mom was 17, she was a server at a family type restaurant. She said on Sunday mornings the after church crowd would come in and there was always this group who had about 10 people in their party and they were notorious for never leaving a tip. The first time my mom had their table she tried extra hard to get them to leave a tip and when they left, she saw a $20 bill sticking out from under a napkin. She pulled it out and it was a piece of paper with the corner made to look like a $20 bill. It was an invitation to their church. She was pissed!!

I have heard countless waiters and waitresses tell similar and worse stories. And they are usually always the first ones to complain about the slightest problem.

[dondoboy]

20% makes it so simple. On booze, I usually tip high for selfish reasons: bartenders remember. Tip well and you'll get a drink faster.

[cryptique]

When my mom was 17, she was a server at a family type restaurant. She said on Sunday mornings the after church crowd would come in and there was always this group who had about 10 people in their party and they were notorious for never leaving a tip. The first time my mom had their table she tried extra hard to get them to leave a tip and when they left, she saw a $20 bill sticking out from under a napkin. She pulled it out and it was a piece of paper with the corner made to look like a $20 bill. It was an invitation to their church. She was pissed!!

I'm guessing this is why so many places add a gratuity charge to bills for parties of 6 (or whatever) and more.

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

When my mom was 17, she was a server at a family type restaurant. She said on Sunday mornings the after church crowd would come in and there was always this group who had about 10 people in their party and they were notorious for never leaving a tip. The first time my mom had their table she tried extra hard to get them to leave a tip and when they left, she saw a $20 bill sticking out from under a napkin. She pulled it out and it was a piece of paper with the corner made to look like a $20 bill. It was an invitation to their church. She was pissed!!

I'm sure she was very eager to visit after that.

[plasticeyeball]

I won my wife's heart one dollar at a time.

[Lammycat]

At least 20%, almost always. I have gone down to 15% for shitty service and up to 50% for excellent service. This includes pizza guy, newspaper delivery person, haircuts, cabbies, restaurants/bars, etc. It's really not that big of a deal even though I make a moderate income. I figure it in to the cost before I even leave the house.

[Lammycat]

On booze, I usually tip high for selfish reasons: bartenders remember. Tip well and you'll get a drink faster.

This is a golden rule. You'll usually get comped a few, too, if a regular. It's a good deal for both parties.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/5-tips...d-waiter-432209

 

Maybe this is a taboo topic I am not sure. What's your tipping style? I usually do 15-18% I tip on tax and liquor which some do some don't. If the service is great I do 20%..if it is really great I do 25%. Bad service 10% or less...

 

Also..I have been getting in this debate. On a $15 men's haircut what would you tip? I never have a regular hair person so maybe that plays into it. The haircuts I get don't involve too much work as I don't have a lot of hair

 

I don't tip for haircuts. (The guy who cuts my hair owns the salon...)

 

I tip in the 15-25% range. You give me good service and I reciporicate

[cryptique]

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[isadorah]

i usually tip 20% on the total bill (or double the tax to get the tip since it is 10% here in these parts). if the service is sub-par then i go the 10-15% route.

 

tattoo artist i have figured out. give them a good tip and they'll be just as gentle and amenable next time, bad tip, not so much. i, however, have no idea what a proper tip for a haircut is or what the rhyme and reason to tipping on haircuts should be. or eyebrows. any women able to share their haircut tipping formulas. my haircuts run $65 a pop. what would one tip on that? oh and are you supposed to tip the shampoo girl separately or does the stylist tip out for them? i clearly was raised in a barn when it comes to this sort of thing.

[cryptique]

my haircuts run $65 a pop.

[Winston Legthigh]

I usually give bartenders $1 per drink, and somewhere between 16-20% for waitstaff (I divide the bill by 5, then 6, and tip something in between).

 

When I waited tables, I always found that the people who were the most vocal about "what a great meal it was" were the ones who tipped the least. Waiting on a table full of a group of geezers who want separate checks was THE WORST for tips.

[isadorah]

 

that's cheap for DC!!! i know someone how pays $225 for her haircut and highlights. i kid you not. i knew someone was going to choke when they read that. the way i look at it, i spent half my life hating my hair (and getting bad haircuts). the self-confidence and happiness i get from a good hair cut is well worth the $65. and ahhh, the head massage i get when it is shampooed. i still have no idea what i should be tipping though.

[cryptique]

Waiting on a table full of a group of geezers who want separate checks was THE WORST for tips.

I have noticed that a group with a single check tends to tip far more than one with separate checks. When I go out with coworkers and we only get one check, everyone throws in too much cash and we usually just leave the excess for the server. There have been tips from us that were well over 30%.

[dmait]

I have heard that you don't need to tip on the price of a bottle of wine, unless a sommelier helps you choose it. I always do anyway, considering it the same as if you got a few drinks.

[cryptique]

the way i look at it, i spent half my life hating my hair (and getting bad haircuts).

Me too. My hair is absurdly thick and most barbers/stylists have no idea what to do with it.

 

I go to the Chinese ladies because they cut thick hair all the time and it doesn't really faze them.

 

And they only charge $12.95.