The All things Tipping Thread

[tshile]

33 minutes ago, Larry said:

Which one of those laws and facts makes it moral for a business to claim that something costs X, and then claim there's something morally wrong with you if you don't pay more for it?  

The one that allows the workers to be paid significantly lower than minimum wage because their industry relies on tips, a custom of ours in place since apparently the civil war. 
 

 

 

[Chump Bailey]

I'm very much in the pro-tipper category. I've worked in the service industry and so has my mom and sister. It's tough work. What I absolutely hate is being inundated with the merchant enabled tip-screen and ensuing guilt trip using electronic payment systems for services that should not be gratuity considered e.g. Panera. where I'm given an empty cup and I pour my own damn coffee.. How about you pay your damn employees a decent wage? It also sickens me that taxpayers subsidize the profits of Fortune 500 companies because of the poverty level wages they pay their 'essential workers.' There's no decrying of Socialism from the right in these instances oddly enough.

[tshile]

Also, back in the day, like mid 2000’s, when I frequented a non-redskins forum... this whole conversation was basically just a bunch of us reservoir dogs fans trolling the **** out of everyone else by saying we don’t tip

 

itd pop up every 6-12 months and was always good fun. People got really mad and didn’t recognize the movie quotes at all 😂 

 

I don’t think any of you qualify for that here, but I may be wrong

[Dan T.]

38 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Really?  

 

20% additional pay for every meal being mandatory has been going on for 100 years?  

 

If you're going to pull things out of your ass, why not claim 1,000?  

 

Show me anything I wrote about 20 percent. I'll wait.

[BatteredFanSyndrome]

Just now, Chump Bailey said:

What I absolutely hate is being inundated with the merchant enabled tip-screen and ensuing guilt trip using electronic payment systems for services that should not be gratuity considered

I've been noticing this more and more at places where tipping really isn't the custom.  I guess on the merchants behalf, they figure - why not try it?  But it puts the consumer in a tough spot.

[Mr. Sinister]

Anybody here tip for carry-out? And I mean literal carry-out, not a curbside service

[skinsmarydu]

Herman Cain did it.  When Bill Clinton upped our wage from $2.09 to $2.125 (I swear, it's not even a full 13), the agreement was made that it would never go higher.  But if you kick ass, you can make it...despite everyone pushing you down. 

Trust me on this.  Good service deserves good money.  I don't do percentages...If that was $20 badass on a $20 check, so be it.  He/she deserved it, or I wouldn't have thrown it on the table. 

Just now, Mr. Sinister said:

Anybody here tip for carry-out? And I mean literal carry-out, not a curbside service

Yep, yesterday was $15, gave her $20.  Called it, walked in to get it. 

[BatteredFanSyndrome]

1 minute ago, Mr. Sinister said:

Anybody here tip for carry-out? And I mean literal carry-out, not a curbside service

I have been since the pandemic, particularly at my favorite local, non-chain spots.  But to be honest, pre-pandemic it always bugged me.

[Mr. Sinister]

Just now, skinsmarydu said:

Yep, yesterday was $15, gave her $20.  Called it, walked in to get it. 

 

What about pre-pandemic? Ftr I totally get carry-out tipping now, and have done it

[max21]

What’re you supposed to do when you order takeout and pick it up? Do you guys add a tip? Pretty awkward, every time I have no idea wtf to do, usually panic and just tip anyways.  @Mr. Sinister beat me to it 

[CobraCommander]

 

 

There is one thing you can do if you really hate tipping. Vote with your money.

 

Go to the grocery store, cook the food, set the table, eat your meal and clean up after yourself. 

 

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Does tipping at the strip club count?

 

 

 

 

Asking for a friend. His or her name may rhyme with Wayne. 

[tshile]

Just now, clietas said:

Does tipping at the strip club count?

I only tip people. 

[Mr. Sinister]

1 minute ago, BatteredFanSyndrome said:

I have been since the pandemic, particularly at my favorite local, non-chain spots.  But to be honest, pre-pandemic it always bugged me.

 

Yeah this is what I was getting at. Pre-pandemic I saw tipping as a system made for services rendered. If someone is waiting on me, that's a service. If someone is bringing me my food, that's a service, etc etc. 

 

Just never saw the need to tip for carry-out prior to this. But I'm open to being better informed on the matter.

[Chump Bailey]

5 minutes ago, clietas said:

Does tipping at the strip club count?

 

Asking for a friend. His or her name may rhyme with Wayne. 

 

Nice clietas. 😄

 

On a side note, your avatar brings back some fond memories for me. I was in an elevator once with the Million Dollar Man and his bodyguard Virgil. No words were exchanged just smiles, though I get the feeling Virgil did not care for me much. This was at an event at the GMU Patriot Center long ago. I was helping a friend of mine backstage who was a Rigger. 

[skinsmarydu]

Tipping on carryout?  Yes, I'm at least 10% on that...but it depends...

Pappadeaux?  They show me everything and make sure I like it, show me that all my extra sauces and whatnot are there.  Packaged beautifully with a real specialist giving me that "service"...  $30 on $100 is nothing...she earned that.  Took time to make sure I'm happy with TAKEOUT. 

And I had a drink at the bar, because while getting there is easy, the whirl-a-round to just get 3 miles back to my house is exhausting. 

 

(I go extreme, it's ma job.)

[PleaseBlitz]

I think tipping on carry out depends on the place. Chipotle, I put a buck in the jar and leave it at that. Nicer places, I tip 15%. 
 

I remember a summer I worked at an Outback.  It did a HUGE amount of takeout biz on Friday nights. Putting those orders together is quite a lot of work. The servers (plural) that got assigned to it worked harder than anyone, no breaks, just constant hustle, and the tips were garbage. So in addition to losing their normal lucrative Friday night shift, they had to work hard AF for next to nothing. People, including myself, threatened to quit for being assigned to it more often than rarely. 

[Captain Wiggles]

My first job was in a record store. Sales associate with customer service expertise. 🤣

 

$4 an hour. Stocking shelves, register work, runner, cleaner, leading customers around to merchandise, ect. Seriously people the cds and tapes are alphabetized. I know because I put em there. It's not hard to find Kenny Logins greatest hits.

 

If you can afford to tip please do. Any and everywhere. Cashiers, clerks, bus boys or girls, line cooks, hostesses, ect. Not socially acceptable it seems to tip every worker I know. Like I get it ya tip your doctor or accountant or teacher? That'd be weird AF. Minimum wage workers should definitely be getting tips for all the bs they gotta deal with. Otherwise raise their ****ty wages.

[tshile]

2 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

I remember a summer I worked at an Outback.  It did a HUGE amount of takeout biz on Friday nights. Putting those orders together is quite a lot of work. The servers (plural) that got assigned to it worked harder than anyone, no breaks, just constant hustle, and the tips were garbage. So in addition to losing their normal lucrative Friday night shift, they had to work hard AF for next to nothing. People, including myself, threatened to quit for being assigned to it more often than rarely

Yes. Outback is where I worked. Which is where I get my views on tipping those people. And you are correct. They work hard. 
 

Well most of them do. 
 

also Saturday take out was where the people super hung over from the Friday after work party went for their shift.

 

got really busy 5-8 but almost nothing before then and you could just sleep

[CobraCommander]

https://www.eater.com/21398973/restaurant-no-tipping-movement-living-wage-future

 

Another interesting article regarding the push for non-tipping restaurants. 

 

[tshile]

@PleaseBlitz

Also after spending some time working ina restaurant and being a part of the after work shenanigans... which... I mean you either were part of it and know what I mean or you weren’t and I can’t explain it

 

ill never be ok with my children working in a restaurant. 
 

that’s a ****ed up culture that, if you don’t have your head in straight, you can get sucked into it and have a hard time getting out. I loved the hell out of it but I was in college and was on a path that naturally took me out of that realm of things. 
 

and it’s not really surprising. you have a bunch of 20 somethings walking out the door at 12am or 1 am with 150-300$ cash in their pockets, jacked cause we’ve been slamming red bulls and coffee for the previous 8 hours and running around like crazy people, with nothing to do. 
 

so getting together blowing our money on a fun time was about the only option. 

[skinsmarydu]

Just now, tshile said:

Yes. Outback is where I worked. Which is where I get my views on tipping those people. And you are correct. They work hard. 
 

Well most of them do. 
 

also Saturday take out was where the people super hung over from the Friday after work party went for their shift.

 

got really busy 5-8 but almost nothing before then and you could just sleep

You felt busy because you slept.  If you never stop moving, you never get behind and it's easy peasy. 

Do everything hard core to make the money, sleep later.  You never know when it ends...even temporarily.

[PleaseBlitz]

1 minute ago, tshile said:

@PleaseBlitz

Also after spending some time working ina restaurant and being a part of the after work shenanigans... which... I mean you either were part of it and know what I mean or you weren’t and I can’t explain it

 

ill never be ok with my children working in a restaurant. 
 

that’s a ****ed up culture that, if you don’t have your head in straight, you can get sucked into it and have a hard time getting out. I loved the hell out of it but I was in college and was on a path that naturally took me out of that realm of things. 
 

and it’s not really surprising. you have a bunch of 20 somethings walking out the door at 12am or 1 am with 150-300$ cash in their pockets, jacked cause we’ve been slamming red bulls and coffee for the previous 8 hours and running around like crazy people, with nothing to do. 
 

so getting together blowing our money on a fun time was about the only option. 

I understand your point. Personally I’d love for my kids to spend one summer doing it just for the perspective on how to treat people. But yea, my time in that industry coincided with college and was very much caffeine, alcohol and sex, with a fun but tough job mixed in. 

[tshile]

5 minutes ago, skinsmarydu said:

You felt busy because you slept.  If you never stop moving, you never get behind and it's easy peasy. 

Do everything hard core to make the money, sleep later.  You never know when it ends...even temporarily.

I didn’t sleep. 
 

takeout pay was ****ing garbage. I worked the bar. You made the most money and where I worked the bar closer cut the other bar people when they wanted (instead of front of house dingbat idiot being in charge)

 

so you were either the closer, and you wanted to cut everyone as soon as possible so you could make way more money off the 8pm-12am crowd, or you were not the closer and you got to leave at 9pm and get a head start on the partying (or just have more options)

 

also my wife was a bartender so we’d sync our shifts (dating at the time) and I would generally arrive/leave same time as her. 
 

that and the fact that we both got jobs in our careers we were in school for within 1 week of each other , is the only reason we stayed together. 
 

it’s impossible to date at that age if one person is working 6a-6p and the other is working 2p-12a. 
 

you wind up never seeing each other and partying with other people and, well, **** happens. 
 

 

2 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

I understand your point. Personally I’d love for my kids to spend one summer doing it just for the perspective on how to treat people. But yea, my time in that industry coincided with college and was very much caffeine, alcohol and sex, with a fun but tough job mixed in. 

Oh my god there so many other things to add to that list!

[PleaseBlitz]

17 minutes ago, Florgon79 said:

https://www.eater.com/21398973/restaurant-no-tipping-movement-living-wage-future

 

Another interesting article regarding the push for non-tipping restaurants. 

 

A lot of the high end restaurants have moved to a very different system where you basically buy a ticket. This saves your reservation and pays for your meal, tax and tip included. So when you are done eating, you just leave. 
 

for example https://www.exploretock.com/rosesluxurydc/