What is your opinion on tipping?

Technically, I pay the waiter and the owner. The owner can then decide how much to pay their other workers, whether to offer benefits, and whether they pay their electric bill or not, or switch companies, or decide to go gridless. When tipping, the business is requiring me the guest to decide how much their waiter should get paid while I have no choice in how much the manager, and more importantly, the cook gets paid. The cook is actually the most important part to the meal. The waiter just walks the food from the counter to the table once. Something, I'd rather choose to do myself.

 

It like they hand you the pad saying “Here are your choices. You don’t want us to spit in your food do you ?”

 

I always tip those folks. Their pay is low. And I feel the same way about restaurant servers. Any place I see people working hard and know their pay is low, I pay extra for their service.

 

I'm feeling a little easier tipping 0 to 10% if I just buy a bagel and Coke or something where there's literally no service. In restaurants I tip at least 20% if I like the server, and I usually do.

 

and tipping is a gift....a personal choice. Doesn't tax law allow for a gift under a certain amount?

 

It's pretty ridiculous isn't it, $2.13/h....

 

I like the idea of restaurants raising their prices by at least 15% and telling customers they do not have to tip (unless they go above and beyond). That goes for carry out where they have waiters, but fast food joints, no.

 

I worked commission sales 90% of my working career, if you want guaranteed paid then you only work jobs that give you a garantied paid and leave everyone else alone. If the food is bad and it effects the servers tip that is the best thing that can happen for the restaurant because they will make the owner cook do something about it or go work somewhere else. A good waiter or bartender can make GOOD money off the tips they earn, it is like a commission to them as while they may be "servers" they are in fact salespeople.

 

ROFLMAO the servers I know would tell you to take a hike with your living wage and living their jobs alone, they make GOOD money off tips.

 

I don't mind commission work, because that's all on you for the most part and someone else is rarely going to mess that up. If anything, you've made the point for all or nothing. Either pay a straight wage or work on commission.

 

I enjoy giving a good tip for good service.

 

LOL I've had lots of people screw up not just a sales but an account for me. And I have made no such point nor is there any such requirement. Base with commission, server wager with tips why should people be denied he employment situation they desire and do best at?

 

Hence the "for the most part" comment. Of course there will always be someone to mess it up possibly, but, at least with the people I've known who've done it (never having worked commission myself, and knowing better than to do it), their success or failure was always more on them than others.

When you said commission, I was under the impression of commission only. Hence why I said why you ended up making that point. Not that you were trying to, but it is what came across to me.

Being the freedom type person I am, I am all for allowing an employee and employer make that agreement. But too much, in much of the food service industry, there isn't a choice. So people are still being denied the employment situation the desire and do best at.

 

Guess what when the shop screwed up my customers order which could cost the customer thousands of $ per hour and cost me business I made sure it was rectified because it cost me money. It made the company BETTER so we didn't lose more customers.

What does it matter. Straight comission with a draw went practically went away years ago. To complicated and to easy to get underwater. Commission and base being easier to manage but there is no limit to the commission. Just like a server gets a base and their commission in the way of tips. The better they are the better will be their income. They are revenue generators for the company not an expense. Always the better side to be on to share the revenue you generate.

Because they don't want the choice they want the opportunity to make a commission.

 

I rarely go places where tips are required or expected. Burger King, Wendy’s etc. is usually my type of restaurant. Although I like the Golden Corral which the cost of the meal is really close to those hamburger joints. I don’t use delivery outside of a pizza once every six months or so. Although Sams has some of the best pizzas I ever had and will get some when I shop there. I prefer to do my own grocery shopping myself or any other shopping for that matter. I prefer to fix my own food most of the time. Fix a huge pot of chili that can last a week. Spend a day BBQ ribs, pork chops, chicken, sometimes rabbit, squirrel, deer depending on the season etc. then freeze the stuff so all I have to do is stuck them in the microwave when I want some. I freeze quite a lot of stuff and have quite a lot of can goods. I don’t like fancy restaurants at all. Tipping isn’t a problem with me because of that.


Yeah, like you if folks expect a tip, I’d rather they just increase the price of things to include the tip.

 

I tip because those people get paid slave wages, but I would rather not have to figure it out.

Just pay them a living wage, and charge me the price of a meal, and call it a day.