Tipping for........nothing?

[kilroy69 1,273]

I do not mind tipping. I really do not. When I have a service provided to me that requires tipping I usually do 25-30 percent.  I have not went into a restaurant to eat since march but I have ordered out. When they bring it right to my car I tip them. The other day I ordered to go from outback and the site would not take my card. It allowed me to do a pay in store option so I put my mask on and went inside to grab the food and pay. 

I looked at the counter and picked out my own food based on my last name on the receipt.  

The guy takes my card and say would you like to include a tip?  

I said.....uhh no. 

He looks at me and lets out a HUGE long sigh and rolls his eyes. Then runs my card. 

 

Am I wrong here? What the fock was I supposed to tip him for? To come to work? To run my card? He literally did absolutely nothing that would not have already been done had the website working. Why should I tip him? 

Ya wanna tip? Get  focking real job assshole. Working as a server is cool in your 20s........notsomuch in your 40s. 

[Big Guy 1,430]

"........and the chips for free" 

[Big Guy 1,430]

11 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:

I do not mind tipping. I really do not. When I have a service provided to me that requires tipping I usually do 25-30 percent.  I have not went into a restaurant to eat since march but I have ordered out. When they bring it right to my car I tip them. The other day I ordered to go from outback and the site would not take my card. It allowed me to do a pay in store option so I put my mask on and went inside to grab the food and pay. 

I looked at the counter and picked out my own food based on my last name on the receipt.  

The guy takes my card and say would you like to include a tip?  

I said.....uhh no. 

He looks at me and lets out a HUGE long sigh and rolls his eyes. Then runs my card. 

 

Am I wrong here? What the fock was I supposed to tip him for? To come to work? To run my card? He literally did absolutely nothing that would not have already been done had the website working. Why should I tip him? 

Ya wanna tip? Get  focking real job assshole. Working as a server is cool in your 20s........notsomuch in your 40s. 

that's a good tip! 

 

The tipping system is an absolute scam

[Hardcore troubadour 16,040]

I always carry cash when I go out to eat. If I’m not tipping or tipping less, extremely rare and for good cause, I pay in cash. I’m not giving my card to some pissed off 22 year old with a useless college degree and purple hair and a nose ring. 

[fandandy 3,314]

The scam is that businesses are allowed to pay these people less than minimum wage.  I have no idea why that is legal.

[Baker Boy 1,711]

22 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:

I do not mind tipping. I really do not. When I have a service provided to me that requires tipping I usually do 25-30 percent.  I have not went into a restaurant to eat since march but I have ordered out. When they bring it right to my car I tip them. The other day I ordered to go from outback and the site would not take my card. It allowed me to do a pay in store option so I put my mask on and went inside to grab the food and pay. 

I looked at the counter and picked out my own food based on my last name on the receipt.  

The guy takes my card and say would you like to include a tip?  

I said.....uhh no. 

He looks at me and lets out a HUGE long sigh and rolls his eyes. Then runs my card. 

 

Am I wrong here? What the fock was I supposed to tip him for? To come to work? To run my card? He literally did absolutely nothing that would not have already been done had the website working. Why should I tip him? 

Ya wanna tip? Get  focking real job assshole. Working as a server is cool in your 20s........notsomuch in your 40s. 

The minimum wage is here $12 and hour, the price of my food went up. I feel the tip is now included. I do tip for sit down service but never more than 15%. 

[frank 2,355]

11 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I always carry cash when I go out to eat. If I’m not tipping or tipping less, extremely rare and for good cause, I pay in cash. I’m not giving my card to some pissed off 22 year old with a useless college degree and purple hair and a nose ring. 

You've got to carry weapons, cause you always carry cash. 

[edjr 7,034]

I look at it this way. I made 4/5 times what a person working at a counter makes. I order out maybe twice a week. Will I really miss that 5 to 10 bucks? I refuse to be a cheap fock.

[Baker Boy 1,711]

Just now, edjr said:

I look at it this way. I made 4/5 times what a person working at a counter makes. I order out maybe twice a week. Will I really miss that 5 to 10 bucks? I refuse to be a cheap fock.

So that is why you tip, so you don’t look cheap. A lot of these people make good money, much in cash and tax free, because customers don’t want to look cheap. I know a bartender who makes $150 and up on a busy night.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,040]

4 minutes ago, edjr said:

I look at it this way. I made 4/5 times what a person working at a counter makes. I order out maybe twice a week. Will I really miss that 5 to 10 bucks? I refuse to be a cheap fock.

Even if they suck? 

[The Elevator Killer 725]

32 minutes ago, kilroy69 said:

I do not mind tipping. I really do not. When I have a service provided to me that requires tipping I usually do 25-30 percent.  I have not went into a restaurant to eat since march but I have ordered out. When they bring it right to my car I tip them. The other day I ordered to go from outback and the site would not take my card. It allowed me to do a pay in store option so I put my mask on and went inside to grab the food and pay. 

I looked at the counter and picked out my own food based on my last name on the receipt.  

The guy takes my card and say would you like to include a tip?  

I said.....uhh no. 

He looks at me and lets out a HUGE long sigh and rolls his eyes. Then runs my card. 

 

Am I wrong here? What the fock was I supposed to tip him for? To come to work? To run my card? He literally did absolutely nothing that would not have already been done had the website working. Why should I tip him? 

Ya wanna tip? Get  focking real job assshole. Working as a server is cool in your 20s........notsomuch in your 40s. 

Ok Mr. Pink. 

[edjr 7,034]

24 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Even if they suck? 

Hard to suck when you're just handing out food. I guess being a bartender my whole life and working in the tip industry, I always see things differently. 

[dain11279 985]

I always tip, take out or anything else where it’s appreciated. Usually 20-25%, 30% or higher if it’s great service or if the waitress/bartender is hot

[Alias Detective 1,474]

1 hour ago, Big Guy said:

that's a good tip! 

 

The tipping system is an absolute scam

The tipping system is a way for the customer to pay the business owner’s employees’ income.  It’s an absolute scam.  Especially the buck for opening a bottle of beer crap.  

[MTSkiBum 1,626]

8 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

The tipping system is a way for the customer to pay the business owner’s employees’ income.  It’s an absolute scam.  Especially the buck for opening a bottle of beer crap.  

That is how every business works. If I walk into my local fishing store and buy some tackle part of that money I just spent will be used for the employee. Anytime you go to a business you are helping pay for the employees.

 

 

[MTSkiBum 1,626]

27 minutes ago, dain11279 said:

I always tip, take out or anything else where it’s appreciated. Usually 20-25%, 30% or higher if it’s great service or if the waitress/bartender is hot

I usually tip 10-15% on takeout, but for uber eats, grub hub, alcohol delivery, and dine in I usually tip 15-25% depending.

I know the uber eats people do not do much, however considering depreciation, maintenance and other vehicle cost of ownership expenses along with fuel costs and with how little they earn I believe they practically lose money and I feel bad.  I have increased my tipping recently and they get almost as much as in house service.

 

[Boots11234 108]

FOK dem KONTS!!  This happened to me at olive garden last week.  I ordered online and paid.  NO tip.  Woman brings me my food and has the ballz to ask me if I want to leave a tip for the people who bagged up my food?!?!  Ummm, No, and fk off please.  Rolled up my window and my 17 year old daughter commented 'wow dad that was pretty inappropriate of her.'  I emailed corporate to and have yet to hear back.   Funny thing is when I was young I actually opened this particular Olive Garden.  I would never have been allowed to do what she did.  

Im not tipping to put my food in a bag sorry.  Ring it up under the managers number so there is no tax liability for the server and problem solved.  

[Boots11234 108]

19 minutes ago, MTSkiBum said:

I usually tip 10-15% on takeout, but for uber eats, grub hub, alcohol delivery, and dine in I usually tip 15-25% depending.

I know the uber eats people do not do much, however considering depreciation, maintenance and other vehicle cost of ownership expenses along with fuel costs and with how little they earn I believe they practically lose money and I feel bad.  I have increased my tipping recently and they get almost as much as in house service.

 

See I would totally tip them if they brought it to my house but me going to the restaurant, no.  

[TBayXXXVII 2,679]

1 hour ago, kilroy69 said:

I do not mind tipping. I really do not. When I have a service provided to me that requires tipping I usually do 25-30 percent.  I have not went into a restaurant to eat since march but I have ordered out. When they bring it right to my car I tip them. The other day I ordered to go from outback and the site would not take my card. It allowed me to do a pay in store option so I put my mask on and went inside to grab the food and pay. 

I looked at the counter and picked out my own food based on my last name on the receipt.  

The guy takes my card and say would you like to include a tip?  

I said.....uhh no. 

He looks at me and lets out a HUGE long sigh and rolls his eyes. Then runs my card. 

 

Am I wrong here? What the fock was I supposed to tip him for? To come to work? To run my card? He literally did absolutely nothing that would not have already been done had the website working. Why should I tip him? 

Ya wanna tip? Get  focking real job assshole. Working as a server is cool in your 20s........notsomuch in your 40s. 

I ONLY tip people who are working for tips... if they waited on me.  If someone is making a normal wage and all they did was ring me up, then I'm not tipping.

[jonmx 2,484]

I usually throw 10% on Pickup orders.  20% if I eat in.  

[tanatastic 2,062]

0 on pickup orders, 15-20% on table service. Pickup order tip? Don’t bet the horses, there’s your tip.

[Alias Detective 1,474]

1 hour ago, MTSkiBum said:

That is how every business works. If I walk into my local fishing store and buy some tackle part of that money I just spent will be used for the employee. Anytime you go to a business you are helping pay for the employees.

 

 

I’d rather pay more to the owner to pay the employee.  To hand a person a dollar for......doing their job.  Grinds my gears....also, selling a bottle of beer for 4-5$.  There is plenty of margin to pay an employee.

[Djgb13 2,339]

I still leave a tip. It might be $1-$2 based on how much the food is. I figure I won’t miss that $1-$2 and the people workin there need it more than I do cause I’m sure they are barely getting by with hardly anyone going to sit in and eat there 

[jerryskids 7,195]

6 hours ago, The Elevator Killer said:

Ok Mr. Pink. 

I used to have a little Mr. Pink in me, but I've softened as I've aged and all 3 of my kids have worked as servers.  My youngest daughter still serves at Denny's, and she shares tips with the bussers and cook staff.  So you aren't just tipping the person taking your money for a takeout order.

I'll usually do 15% for takeout, 25% for sit-down.  

[Bier Meister 1,774]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

I used to have a little Mr. Pink in me

We know Jerry.  Just that one time in college.

[Utilit99 4,099]

I tip people who.who.really work.for the money. Servers? Yep. It's not their fault that minimum wage for servers is low as shlt.

I tip bartenders some depending on what they do that is of any effort. 

I tip movers lunch or beer money. 

I turn down services I don't want to tip. Like hotel services. Sometimes if I destroy a hotel room I'll leave 10 bucks and a note for the maid if in some cases she wasn't a participant in the making of the mess.

For take out orders? Ours are usually like 60-70 bucks. I'll give a few bucks. Especially now with the chinese flu. I tip them way more now cause I want them to stay afloat if I like them.

 

[NorthernVike 2,100]

I tip the tab.  You people are cheap.

[BiffTannen 1,262]

When I was 16 I worked as a valet for tips, therefore appreciate others that do. Waitress/bartender/stripper - if you’re attractive, not fat, and don’t fock my food/drink/pemus up, I’m going to tip you well above the customary rate. 

[edjr 7,034]

8 hours ago, jerryskids said:

I used to have a little Mr. Pink in me,

Doubt it was little

[Cruzer 1,996]

I usually tip 25% at least.. But the tip jar at drive-thru windows piss me off. 

I went and got a BBQ sandwich the other day. Just the sandwich, nothing else, was $10. And they want a tip too? Pfft. 

[Super Cubs 156]

Tipping a % is the scam

Two people  go out to eat. Separate checks. One gets a $10 hamburger. The other a $50 steak. Sitting at the same table they both get their checks. Both tip 20%. One leaves $2 and the other leaves $10. The service was the same.

 

[peenie 2,005]

I always tip, I over tip, even when I'm doing take out. I have to, to make up for the rest in my group that don't tip or don't tip properly.

[TBayXXXVII 2,679]

5 hours ago, Super Cubs said:

Tipping a % is the scam

Two people  go out to eat. Separate checks. One gets a $10 hamburger. The other a $50 steak. Sitting at the same table they both get their checks. Both tip 20%. One leaves $2 and the other leaves $10. The service was the same.

 

Truth.

[GobbleDog 1,018]

Great service, free drinks, really nice... I tip 15%. 

Spilled water on my shirt, food took forever, bad attitude... I tip 15%.

 

Restaurant prices have skyrocketed, yet some people think the tip rate should also inflate. 15% is all that's expected and that's all they get from me.  Don't get any less either - I hate waiter judges.

 

 

[Strike 6,032]

20 minutes ago, peenie said:

I always tip, I over tip, even when I'm doing take out. I have to, to make up for the rest in my group that don't tip or don't tip properly.

Hang out with less black people and more white people.  Problem solved.

[Alias Detective 1,474]

9 hours ago, NorthernVike said:

I tip the tab.  You people are cheap.

My youth job was a beer jockey at a beer distributer.  I loaded more kegs, and cases than most could count. Mostly into coups and lifted trucks without Tommy gates.  Oh, the tailgate doesn’t open either.  

Not once did I expect a tip.  

[Fireballer 2,693]

29 minutes ago, peenie said:

the rest in my group that don't tip or don't tip properly.

Why is it that thing?

[frank 2,355]

1 hour ago, peenie said:

I always tip, I over tip, even when I'm doing take out. I have to, to make up for the rest in my group that don't tip or don't tip properly.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

[5-Points 3,838]

I'm a big believer in tipping service people. They earn shite wages and tips help them immensely at the end of the day. 

That said, you ordered online, drove to the establishment, walked in and grabbed your food. Who are you tipping for what in that scenario? 

[Utilit99 4,099]

1 hour ago, Fireballer said:

Why is it that thing?

It's always been. Black people I worked with didn't want to wait on black people. They dominate your time and leave little or nothing. It's not all black folks, but most of them.