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ORIGINAL: igor2003

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ORIGINAL: heartcream

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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

First, regardless of gender, male or female, it depends on how good the service/ care was, and then how much I can afford to spare. If the service and care sucked, they don't get squatt from me. If the service and care and everything else was exempliary, and I could spare an extravigant tip then I have given as much as 20 dollars.

Dont go out if you cant pay the bill. Cutting corners on the little guy is beyond tacky. Depending on how much your bill is 20 bucks aint a thing. I am not dissing it but depending on how much your bill is determines whether you are being overly generous. Many times 20 bucks would not even be 10 % if a big family or a group comes in.

How about the folks who want all separate checks and then deck out of tipping because they think the next guy will do it, sneaky arses.

So are you saying that elderly or disabled people on a fixed income don't deserve to go out once in a while and not have to eat their own cooking? Or what about that single mother that is struggling to make ends meet? Doesn't she deserve to get out once in a while as well? Isn't telling them to "Don't go out if you can't pay the bill," simply brecause the server doesn't get as big of a tip as they would like is also "cutting corners" on the little people? Seems to me that attitude is also tacky.

And as a question to the group, what are your tipping habits when you go to a smorgasboard where the patron "serves" themselves and the servor pretty much only brings your drink and the check?

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I understand that, what I don't get is your mindset.....you know what it's not worth it. You think you have the market cornered on stressful jobs, fine.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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I understand that, what I don't get is your mindset.....you know what it's not worth it. You think you have the market cornered on stressful jobs, fine.

I have not waited tables in years. Serving motivated me to go to college and better my prospects. My work can be stressful, but it is also fulfilling these days. I do not think servers are the only people with stressful job, but it is the most stressfilled work I have ever done, and I have done quite a few jobs in an attempt to get away from serving. The only reason I kept serving so long is that it was the best pay I could hope to achieve for the area I lived in with my educational background... I changed that through hard work and a good attitude, but that doesn't mean I forgot where I came from or how difficult it was...

My mother waited tables for 20 years, and she found it every bit as stressful as I did...

It is a hard job, and a great attitude towards it helps a person make as much money as they can doing it, I suppose I think it says something about my attitude that I came away from that work with a positive attitude about people in general, which is why I became an anthropologist in the first place

What I do not understand is what you do not understand, my posts have been pretty clear

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ORIGINAL: ThatDaveGuy69

I don't feel like reading all 10 pages of this thread so this may have been said before: Here in the US, waitstaff are taxed on tips WHETHER YOU TIP OR NOT! It is a horrendous injustice in the tax code but that's the way it is. So to all you XXXXXXXXXXXX who refuse to tip: Stay at home and cook you own damn food!

End of rant.

~Dave

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Tazz,  that is theft of services. 

It is also disruptive- which some would consider disorderly.  (1 hour???)

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ORIGINAL: vincentcat

A simple question out of curious. How much do you tip a waitress and why do you tip her that amount? Also what would make you tip her more?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Tazz,  that is theft of services. 

It is also disruptive- which some would consider disorderly.  (1 hour???)

What do you mean, one hour?

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ORIGINAL: lobodomslavery

i take umbrage at the term cheapskate. Rather than label why not analyse why they are as you term cheapskate, what are the circumstances that have brought this about, don t be so fucking judgmental
kevin

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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I understand that, what I don't get is your mindset.....you know what it's not worth it. You think you have the market cornered on stressful jobs, fine.

I have not waited tables in years. Serving motivated me to go to college and better my prospects. My work can be stressful, but it is also fulfilling these days. I do not think servers are the only people with stressful job, but it is the most stressfilled work I have ever done, and I have done quite a few jobs in an attempt to get away from serving. The only reason I kept serving so long is that it was the best pay I could hope to achieve for the area I lived in with my educational background... I changed that through hard work and a good attitude, but that doesn't mean I forgot where I came from or how difficult it was...

My mother waited tables for 20 years, and she found it every bit as stressful as I did...

It is a hard job, and a great attitude towards it helps a person make as much money as they can doing it, I suppose I think it says something about my attitude that I came away from that work with a positive attitude about people in general, which is why I became an anthropologist in the first place

What I do not understand is what you do not understand, my posts have been pretty clear

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ORIGINAL: ThatDaveGuy69

I don't feel like reading all 10 pages of this thread so this may have been said before: Here in the US, waitstaff are taxed on tips WHETHER YOU TIP OR NOT! It is a horrendous injustice in the tax code but that's the way it is. So to all you asswipes who refuse to tip: Stay at home and cook you own damn food!

End of rant.

~Dave

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ORIGINAL: zephyroftheNorth

What does that have to do with a server who gives you good service deserving a tip? The tip is for good service not to pay the server, her pay and her tips are two completely different things.