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JstAnotherSub -> RE: How much do you tip your waitress? (6/4/2010 7:50:00 PM)
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I normally tip at least 20%, more so in a bar setting if they keep me a cold bud handy and keep my ice water filled when I switch to water for the last hour or so. I have walked out without leaving a tip before, but the waitress always knew why I was doing it. I think it has happened 2 or 3 times in my life.
I was a waitress for a good while in my younger days. I had good tippers and bad tippers, but I always made sure to give them all the same great service. I thought, even then, that doing my job well would always come back to me, even if not immediately.
I remember one construction crew that ate with us for an entire week. Maybe 7 or 8 guys, barely spoke english, and getting their order was always a challenge. The first night, no tip. Second night, no tip. The last few nights, no tip. I would walk back in the kitchen and mumble obscenities under my breath, then turn the charm on and go back to work.
The last night they were there, the boss came in and had coffee, to tell me how much he enjoyed my lovely personality and the way I always smiled and treated them well, and how I did not get upset over the lack of english they had. I told him that was what I got paid the big bucks for-lol. In my mind I was thinking ya cheap bassturd.
He left and I told my boss, nice folks, but man they cost me money this week. She was happy cause they had really helped ehr bottom line that week.
Anyhoo, too late to make a long story short (aint it always by the time someone says that?) but when the boss left that last night, I went co clear his coffee cup, and underneath it was a nicely folded $100 bill. This was 1979 and I did the snoopy dance for 5 minutes I know. I will never know why they did not tip all week, but it didn't matter then anyhow.
Waitressing is very hard work, sorely unappreciated work, underpaid work. But, inho, if you only give good service because you expect a great tip, you should do all you can to find some other work. No matter what job you do, I think you should do it to the best of your ability every day, for every person you come in contact with.
If you choose to be in a customer service field, theres gonna be dickwads you deal with almost daily. Go to the kitchen and curse, then smile and do ya job. Ya never know when you will find $100 under a coffee cup.
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