Tipping for me………
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Waiting...
Miss-marleyFabulous — 14 years ago(January 04, 2012 10:41 AM)
If a server wants a good tip from me:
- The server better greet me with a warm welcome.
- I better not wait more than 5 minutes to place my order.
- Get my order right when taking it. I hate to repeat myself.
- Get our drinks right away. I am in no mood to wait.
- Check up on us every so often and top off our drinks.
- Make our table a priority no matter what.
- Do not spill anything on me or my guests.
- Before bringing the food to our table, verify that each one is right. If I have to send a plate back, I am docking off the tip and asking the manager for a discount on that plate.
- Bring the check right after we are done eating. DO NOT BRING IT WHEN WE ARE STILL EATING.
- Use proper English. I do not want to deal with a server that lacks in English.
- SMILE!
- Don't ask if I need anything else. If I did not request anything, leave me ALONE.
- KNOW YOUR JOB! I can't and will not deal with incompetence.
If you can do all of that, we shouldn't have a problem.
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Eels14 — 14 years ago(January 09, 2012 04:26 PM)
In Australia, we don't really have tipping. Maybe at a restauarant if you don't care about your change, but in clubs, pubs, most restauarants, we don't do this. I've seen American TV shows like Alice (1976) where diners exist in your country and the waitresses earn tips, but once again we don't have this set up. We do have GST, but that's already been included in the total bill. Tipping I guess would have it's advantages, you might be given a better service if your at a bar and wanting drinks served all the time, but down here we only pay the set price.
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manateexx — 12 years ago(July 18, 2013 03:05 PM)
The US seems to be one of the few (only?) countries that does this.
In other parts of the world, many restaurants are family owned. The owner, the chef, most of the servers are all part of one family. Thus in paying the food bill, you are supporting the server too.
Or if it isn't family owned, the server is still making about $10/hr or more.
Here, the servers are paid (typically) in the $2.20/hr range and expected to earn their way up to the "normal" minimum wage of $7.25 with tips from customers. The theory is that if you paid servers here a flat $10/hr, they would only have to work just hard enough not to get fired. And there wouldn't be much motivation for a server to go out of their way to provide special service. Servers are also expected to share their tips with the busboys (the people that clean the table) and the bartenders.
A good baseline for tipping is 15% of the bill. A good way to estimate that is look at the "tax" amount on the receipt and double that.
A customer that has no intention of tipping when they walk into a restaurant is very very much a douchbag.
A server that expects their 15% no matter how badly they do their job is an entitled douchebag.
Some math on servers and tips: If 4 people sit at a table and each order $15 of food, their bill will come to $60. 15% of $60 is $9. If a server handles 4 of those tables per hour they will earn $36/hr in tips. Minus whatever amount they tip the busboys and bartenders.
Under ideal circumstances, being a GOOD server can pay quite nicely.
But.sometimes business is slow. Sometimes people don't tip. So the actual amount made per hour may be much much less. -
Miss-marleyFabulous — 14 years ago(January 25, 2012 12:23 AM)
My demands are not that hard to meet. I am a very generous tipper so long as the waiter gets it right. They will at least get a $1 from me. That is the bare minimum. One should be grateful that they are getting a minimum tip of a $1.
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