Are you a good tipper?

xstarlikex

xstarlikex

Ces't amour!
Toxick said:
Tell you what - when you can demonstrate that you can think at all, then you can presume to guess what I'm thinking or assuming.


Personally, my assumption was that the only job you're qualified for is panhandling.
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Oh, ow! That hurts, real bad. Except not. You just love to make yourself look better by assuming I am dumb. Well, you can assume all you want. I know the truth and that is all that matters.

Let me make assumptions too! You probably sit around an office all day being bossed around by someone you will never be. I wouldn't doubt that you are old either. Almost middle-aged maybe. Mid-life crisis about to hit.

And I doubt if I was panhandling I could afford to be on the internet. So, let's re-think that statement.
 
RoseRed

RoseRed

American Beauty
PREMO Member
Funny thing happened on the way home this evening.

Myself and two other mom's with a gaggle of four 5 year old brownies and two babies under the age of one stopped for dinner at Tia's in Bowie.

Our server, as young and bright as he was was busting his ass with us, another party of 12 and another of about eight.

The other parties being all adults would be much easier to deal with since they didn't drop a sippy cup of milk and have it explode all over the floor or have to bring napkins PRONTO after one of the babies stuck his hand into the bowl of salsa and other assorted clamaties.

He worked his butt off to make sure we all had eveything, double checked on us and was friendly and sincere the entire time.

At the very end after bringing the change he profusely apologized for any wait or unhapiness and told us that tonight WAS HIS FIRST SHIFT EVER.

KUDOS to this young man! He never flinched and was always friendly when he could have had a meltdown!

What kind of management starts a brand new waiter on a busy Saturday night, especially with a table with 6 kids under the age of five.

He got his 17% that was already added to the check... and then some.
 
Ken King

Ken King

A little rusty but not crusty
PREMO Member
XOXO17 - gratuity means "something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service". You're the one that took a job paying $2.13 an hour and are relying upon your exemplary skills to garner recognition via receipt of an offering of gratuity on the customer’s part. The fact is that the customer is only required to pay for what they purchased. Anything above that is still the customer being gratuitous whether it is 10%, 15%, 20% or whatever. And if I was you I wouldn’t name the establishment either. If I was your boss and came across your sniveling I would certainly let you go for the attitude that you have displayed as you interact with the community, you know the same one that the business relies upon for their existence.

And before you say that I’m a bad tipper or ask if I am a server I will tell you that I tip very well for good service (30% range), I leave 15% to 20% for average service and I will leave $.02 for crappy service. I have also been a bartender here in St. Mary’s and once managed a consolidated open mess at a remote military installation in Alaska as a part time job. Tips are extra and not guaranteed or else they would be included in the charge up front.

Let me clue you into something else, those customers that you are blowing off for leaving you a meager tip could be the ones that give the most outrageous tip on their next visit, but you have now shunned them and are again the loser. There could be a very good reason why they gave less then what you felt you deserve. Maybe they took exception with something that you did or didn’t do, the food could have been crappy and they penalize everyone in the business for that or maybe they just didn’t have the extra to give at that moment. But you know what none of this matters because your customers are not required to give you a darn thing for doing your $2.13 an hour job. It’s up to you to earn anything extra and those that don’t live up to your standard simply do not have to. If you can’t deal with that then you should find a new line of work.
 
K_Jo

K_Jo

Pea Brain
PREMO Member
XOXO17 said:
any server who provides good,friendly service should expect and deserve 20%
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If you have to expect something, it seems to me you'd be a much happier person/server if you expected 15% for providing good service. Then, when you did get 20% +, you'd be excited and appreciate it, instead of b!tching and whining when you don't. :shrug:
 
BuddyLee

BuddyLee

Football addict
XOXO17 said:
I am a server in the area and I think that Southern Maryland could use a lesson in tipping. The MINIMUM tip nowadays is 20% not 15% (15% is so ten years ago!)When the cost of living goes up for you-it goes up for us servers too! You should tip the minumum for good service.You should tip MORE for great service--and don't be so quick to say"there goes her tip" If there are problems with your food, it is not the servers fault! As long as your server trys to correct the situation as best they can they have done their job.There are also times when you should tip a little extra...

1. When you are finished eating and you and your party stay and talk forever. Your server could have made more money off that table had it been available.

2.When your child throws huge amounts of food on the floor.( and please NO MORE cheerios for babies-they get everywhere)

Please do not let your children run wild through the restaurant,color on tables and walls,empty sugar packets and S&P on the table. Its rude..you wouldn't let them behave like that at your hosts home would you? Remember to say Please and Thank you. Realize that your server is human and will make mistakes and forget things from time to time. Also realize that just because you frequent a place regularly does not mean you own the place, or are more important than other customers-their money is green just like yours! Please don't stay past closing time-we want to go home!
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Here's my tip...

STFU

It's a tip, be happy with what you got.
 
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Kizzy

Guest
BuddyLee said:
Here's my tip...

STFU

It's a tip, be happy with what you got.
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I like this one too... I'd like to buy a "U"
 

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Toxick

Toxick

Splat
Ken King said:
And before you say that I’m a bad tipper or ask if I am a server I will tell you that I tip very well for good service (30% range), I leave 15% to 20% for average service and I will leave $.02 for crappy service.
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I find it amazing that with all the uncommonly generous tippers who've chimed in on this thread, none ever seemed to patronize the places I used to work in SOMD back in the day when I was a waiter/bartender, etc. (Maybe you folks were hanging out in the clubs up the road where I was getting decent tips?)

I also find it rather interesting that all the uncommonly generous tippers are chiming in on this thread, and seem to be taking it as a personal attack when the original assertion quite obviously doesn't pertain to them.

And lastly, it's somewhat interesting that all the bad-tippers either haven't seen this thread, or they do not feel the need to defend their behavior, although all the phenomonally good tippers do feel that need in spades.
 
K_Jo

K_Jo

Pea Brain
PREMO Member
Toxick said:
I find it amazing that with all the uncommonly generous tippers who've chimed in on this thread, none ever seemed to patronize the places I used to work in SOMD back in the day when I was a waiter/bartender, etc. (Maybe you folks were hanging out in the clubs up the road where I was getting decent tips?)

I also find it rather interesting that all the uncommonly generous tippers are chiming in on this thread, and seem to be taking it as a personal attack when the original assertion quite obviously doesn't pertain to them.

And lastly, it's somewhat interesting that all the bad-tippers either haven't seen this thread, or they do not feel the need to defend their behavior, although all the phenomonally good tippers do feel that need in spades.
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This doesn't pertain to me, right?
 
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