Tipping for me………
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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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SillyPhilly — 12 years ago(July 06, 2013 08:33 PM)
Wondering why every reply to this HUGE C-unit troll has been deletedsomebody must've opened up with both barrels on her.
I get that you are trolling for reactions and are writing incendiary remarks for attention. However, if this is your attitude in real life allow me to say: You have no doubt had ball hair, ball sweat, and a myriad of other grimy offerings all up in ya food.