notmyusualuserid
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Why?
No... I DO NOT want to add a tip!
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Oxidao
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Well… depends of their reason for not doing so.
edit. and to be true, not so happy with this: ”state taking 40% of my salary as Taxes”
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We would do backflips, full wine service multiple times a table, dessert trays, special orders - usually for the wealthy, not the rich .
We worked our asses off, took crap and made good dough.
As good as the money was - I paid my way through college - I’d never debase myself that way again. That stuff is 35 yrs in the rear view.
Applebees schlep food to tables. Those servers would raise hell at the way we lapdogged it most nights.
Eliminate tipping in NYC restaurants then I’ll believe it.
Only concerned with waitstaff deal in US - not other countries and I don’t tip when you don’t do anything . If you’re dumb enough to work in a Starbucks it’s your own fault .
notmyusualuserid
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Unfortunately for you and your outdated chauvinism, the US doesn't exist in its own little bubble.
well, maybe the US doesn't... but, I live here and many people IN the US do.
ETMusic777
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Here in LA, many carryout places add 1 or 2% to the bill to cover their employees health benefits. Most of the time, they do not tell you about it, but its buried in small print on the receipt. My most recent ex girlfriend used to freak out about it whenever it happened to her and she would demand it be taken off the bill. I agreed with her, however she was a high maintanence girl too and everything was a problem for her.
Frontier9
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I always felt this way until the "time of great hardship" when it became a struggle for many restaurants to stay open. Didn't want my to see my local favorites (and not-so-favorites, for that matter) close their doors for good.
Lately it seems that the habit will remain when I'm picking up at non-fast food joints.
I thought the OP was from SoCal ?
It’s incredulous to folks in other countries that tipping exists at all anywhere.
I get that.
But why would you have a problem about something that exist in America and in one very small defined area of service that I was talking about which was fine dining staff ?
Tip/don’t tip.
Because something doesn’t exist in your country doesn’t mean it’s wrong somewhere else obviously.
Last time I checked, there were still places where people put their name down for the privilege of spending tons of money on a series of small plates a month or two ahead of time.
It’s incredulous to folks in other countries that tipping exists at all anywhere.
I get that.
But why would you have a problem about something that exist in America and in one very small defined area of service that I was talking about which was fine dining staff ?
Tip/don’t tip.
Because something doesn’t exist in your country doesn’t mean it’s wrong somewhere else obviously.
Last time I checked, there were still places where people put their name down for the privilege of spending tons of money on a series of small plates a month or two ahead of time.
Monoprice99
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That check box is there to protect the consumer from an unscrupulous employee adding a tip that was not intended. Others may even alter the tip amount post transaction. Checking the box for no tip means he line item for a tip should be a zero amount. A lot can happen from signing the receipt to final payment & reconciliation as a process involving several hands.
And servers at Applebees and TGIFridays probably wait on two or three times as many tables as you did at one time. Juggling service for multiple tables is a lot of work. And they sometimes deal with a class of customer that may not know or care about polite customs for dining in public, or about paying for their meal when the check is delivered.
But, the paradigm had been established.
I didn’t set it up. I just observed it and used it to my advantage.
Meaning : people tip as a percentage of the check total.
So if you wanted to make the most money as a server ?
Go where the check averages are higher.
So that’s what I did.
Why go someplace where you have to turn 1X to 2X as many tables to make the same amount ?
That’s for the people whose parents were helping them with college.
I didn’t have that luxury, so I had to be like a bank robber and “go where the money is”
It’s the same reason I worked a bunch of crappy construction jobs because it wasn’t retail at $3.35 it was 15 or 16 bucks an hour.
Dostradamas
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Traveling across country, I was sort of shocked by how much sandwiches at Firehouse now cost. Yes, I recognize that the employees deserve proper pay and I just have to assume, at these new prices, that their wages have at least doubled. Which is right, but which also cancels out the need for locked in tipping. So, if the sandwich is superb or somewhere else the pizza is superb, I tip after the meal is over, in cash.
The way I see it, it is redundant to both raise prices and then pretend as to tipping, that nothing has changed. Having said that, I encountered a lot of surly, very temporary employees in come of these communities with no identity. Places like Casa Grande, Arizona. You know these places. The home of quiet quitting, or quitting right before our eyes in one case.
The way I see it, it is redundant to both raise prices and then pretend as to tipping, that nothing has changed. Having said that, I encountered a lot of surly, very temporary employees in come of these communities with no identity. Places like Casa Grande, Arizona. You know these places. The home of quiet quitting, or quitting right before our eyes in one case.
Red Ryder
Friend of Leo's
Casa Grande, a dirt hole in the desert. I always hated going there and was always glad to leave.
LOL... this component took longer to come up than I expected.
I'm at a "in between point" of my middle life body... I'm 6 feet tall, still lift weights 5 days a week, so I still have fairly broad shoulders, and a chest somewhere between "pecs" and man-boobs... But my flat stomach left me, when I lost the stomach to ride my bike years ago... out of fear of being smashed by a texting/driving idiot, and I'll never not eat Italian and Mexican food.
So a large fits me great, until I lift my arms and my belly shows itself.
An XL T-shirt looks like a moo-moo on me.
So these were custom fitted...
I found another place that offered the same thing, without begging for a tip... So I'll update how that works for me..
As promised.....
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I have gotten take out from a few places I normally go for sit down meals. Yes, I will tip but not as much as for eating in the restaurant. I have worked in restaurants also.
I'm happy to offer tips:
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4) Ego should be restrained. Humour and irony should be promoted
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Edit: 'I' is already singular, so 'I, for one' seems redundant
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A person put your pizza together and wrapped it for you to take home. Hmmm….
spupilup
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Having lived in NYC for a number of years back in the '80's and '90's, I can tell you, everyone has their hand out for a tip. I remember I paid about $400 a month to park my car. On top of that I tipped the garage manager $50 a month to keep my car on the main floor so when they were busy I could walk in, get in my car with my spare key and drive away without having to wait upwards of 20 minute for them to fish my car out of a spot three or four floors up.
I had doormen and a concierge plus the super to take care of whenever they did ANYTHING for me. Tipping is just the way it was and is in a place like NYC. You want anything done for you, it's going to cost. If you're known as a cheapskate, you'll never get stuff that you need, done.
Don't even get me started about doing shows at the Javits Center. You had to go with a wad of money to grease the wheel otherwise it would take forever to get your truck unloaded, booth set up, electricity supplied, the list goes on. It's just the way things get done in a big city.
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