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Is Tipping Getting Out Of Control?

olbriar said:
...or not so good service.
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I've had terrible service before. And not the "everyone is having a bad day" bad service, where you understand a bit. People have bad days, kitchens make mistakes, things get lost, but you can tell when people care. Those folks are often ones that wind up with a larger tip for fixing the problem or doing whatever they can to make it right.

I'm talking just the "I don't care" type of service, food is late, cold, wrong order, whatever. You are a ticket and they don't give a rats ass. I've intentionally left a $0.01 tip. If I left zero, then they might assume I'm a cheap A-hole. But $0.01 tells them I took the time to fill out the tip line, or place a penny on the table, and that they didn't deserve a tip. This is reserved for places that are top to bottom horrible experiences and I won't be returning anyway. The few times (I can count them on one hand) I've done this the place has been closed or sold within months.
 
I always worked in a service industry providing an end product where a tip was not customary or expected. However, through the years I received a number of tips and some were quite substantial. All were gifted out of true gratitude for efforts they deemed were above and beyond expectations. I tip with that theme as well. I'm the guy that stops at all kool-aid stands that the kids have and ask just how much is a glass of kool-aid. They will say fifty cent or whatever and I'll say are you kidding me... and then laugh... telling them I appreciate their efforts to make some money. Drop a twenty on their table and tell them that I don't like kool-aid and walk back to my truck. I love industrious kids!

My business partner and I had just finished a job and the client tipped us with five hundred dollar bills. We stopped at a restaurant that we frequented for lunch and a young, unmarried, very pregnant, waitress that often served us served us that day. We gave her our tip. It cost us nothing so to speak and the young gal, always cheerful and working her buns off, needed the tip far more than us. She cried....

That's what tips are in my book... or should be. An unexpected gift of care and appreciation. A tip should not be a suggested amount for wage compensation. I give no tip if it wasn't earned.
 
From what I've seen this is definitely an American only problem. Where I am, tipping just does not happen, and if you actually try to give a tip and offer extra money, you tend to get strange looks of puzzlement. Unless one a taxi driver in Beijing, and he thinks his passenger is a rich American.

And I've had some peeps in China that seem to think I'm a rich American, that will give tips. But fortunately I'm fluent in Mandarin, and so that just doesn't' happen.
 
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Me thinks the Mods should be tipped for putting up with the membership ....





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I always thought the money collected from VIP memberships should be divided up among the staff, not go to an owner of the site who shows up once a week if that.
 
mikedt said:
Who are you actually supposed to be tipping there? Is there an employee at the self checkout who packs your grocery bags for you, or helps you with the heavier items?
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The people that scan your heavy stuff half the time when the scanner thingy actually works or when they're not busy bs-ing with other employees, or smoking cigarettes out in front of the store where we have to breathe in their second hand smoke before we walk in the store. I still don't get why employees smoking in front of the store is allowed. Can't they do that on the back dock?
 
Ate at a very nice Mexican food restaurant last nite, had food for 2 and a few drinks.

Bill was almost $45.00 I left 15% tip, even though the waitress mistakenly brought me a bud light for my second beer .... I sent it back !

lol
 
The_Chief said:
*Would have bought

Fixed that for ya. BTW I have a trophy wife and I don't think you can buy one: they're leased. Here I am, almost 33 years later and I'm still making the payments!

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Why thank you. :)
Nah, I do not want to just to buy one whenever I can though, thinking that can straight up mess with people.
Seriously no thanks,I have a few leases.
 
I'm sorry but i like to make my own Hotdogs, put the right amount of condiments on it, onions, relish mayo and mustard..... sometimes Ketchup.
Who doesn't love a good Hotdog at a ball game :thinking:
 
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