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Let's talk about tipping
Who do you tip? Who do you not tip (even though that line shows up on most receipts these days)?
How much do you tip for average service - nothing exceptional, nothing terrible?
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Re: Let's talk about tipping
Servers usually around 20%.
My hair stylist a little over 20%.
Cabbies, usually around 20% unless they were awful or something, but they're usually very nice.
Valets/bell boys, $1 to $5, depending on what I have in my wallet.
I don't tip hotel cleaners unless I am abroad or it is a long stay -- which almost never happens these days!
I don't do end-of-year gifts for the mail lady, garbageman, etc.
Waiters 20%
Hair/nails 20%
Drivers depends on the distance
valets $2-3
cleaning service in hotels if im staying more than 2 nights...about $3-5 a day
bartenders $ 1 every other drink
Sometimes. At my favorite pizza place I usually leave a dollar. It's takeout only so I don't really feel the need to tip. I'm not a huge fan of tipping for takeout, but I feel bad if I don't.
Ditto all of this. I dont tip hotel maids either as cleaning a room is pretty much their job description, unless they went above and beyond that which I have never experienced.
Waiters - 20%
Hair/nails - 20%
Valets - $5.00 usually at pick-up
Cleaning service in hotels - $5.00 per day (this is a pet peeve, I hate that people don't tip these women. they work their butts off cleaning up after you and they make hardly nothing per hour.)
Bartender - Varies greatly depending on where we are.
I do give my mailman cookies for Christmas every year. Never cash.
I also give my daugher's bus driver (special needs bus) a very nice gift card at Christmas.
To Go Order: 5%
Pizza Delivery: Usually $5.00 unless it is a BIG order for a party, then I would go more.
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Isn't a valet's job to get your car? A waiters job to wait on you? Hairdresser to cut hair? Cabbie to drive? All of these people do what is in their job description why are they different?
These ladies are usually making minimum wage.
This may be true, but minimum wage for people in jobs where tipping is expected is less than it is for other jobs (like hotel maids). When I was a waitress, minimum wage in my state was over $8 but minimum wage for waitstaff was $3.75.
I tip anyone who makes a wage that depends on it. So if the ad says pay is $x plus tips, I'm tipping. I usually start at 15, 20% for great service.
I'm not in a whole lot of situations beyond restaurants where tipping is appropriate. But I would tip if I were.
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I have issues with tipping. IMO everyone should be tipped or no one should. I know the argument is that the people you're suppose to tip generally make less etc etc. I have never made a lot of money in my jobs (education, child care) yet I never get tipped (obviously).
H makes sure we tip 15%-20% depending on service.
I don't tip super cuts to cut my hair. I don't tip to get pedicures either. I'm not embarrassed.
I think it's beyond sh*tty to just not tip people. I was a server/bartender through college and as a server I made $2.85/hour. The most I ever made as a bartender was $5/hour. I depended on tips to pay my bills. The logic in everyone or no one being tipped is nonexistent, sorry, and you should be embarrassed for not tipping.
I always tip at least 20% in a bar or restaurant unless the person sucks, I tip for takeout (10%), pizza delivery(10%), and haircuts (20%). I don't get manicures and pedicures but if I did I would tip 20% as well.
I tip my hairdresser because I adore her, I enjoy the conversation and I want her to remember my ass so if I ever need an appointment on the fly, she'll fit me in. Plus. some part of my brain thinks she's more likely to remember how she cut my hair.
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It really depends. I tip my stylist 25%. If Joaquin is with us when we go out, H & I typically tip 30% even though she's never caused a ruckus or made much of a mess, KNOCK ON WOOD. Starbucks we tip $10 every couple of months because we never have cash so we tip when we do. Valet is $5 usually, unless the service is a weird price in which case I give over the extra bills (leaving change is always douchy). Maid service at hotels, I usually leave a $20 when I go, because I request no service while I'm there anyway. I usually tip a few bucks at takeaway because IDK whether they pool tips or not at each place.
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It may be less expected,but it doesnt mean people shouldn't do it.
Yes yes yes!! My ex-FI's mother never would tip. She would say, "I hate tipping, that's my extra money going towards nothing." She would leave the table whenever we were out to eat with no tip! I would bring cash with me to tip after she got up because it was so embarrassing. WTH lady.
Servers, 20% for good service, slightly less for meh service.
My hair guru, 20%. Actually, I'll sometimes say to her, "is $xyz a good tip?"
My favorite takeout place where I go every Monday on the way home from yoga, order the same thing, and they recognize my voice, I leave a tip even though it's takeout, but a smaller tip, usually a dollar or so (on a $10 order). Oh and the cafe across the street where I get soup for lunch sometimes, I'll leave a $1 tip on a $4 cup of soup because the girls there are awesome.
Basically, I tip how I would hope to be tipped, were in a job where my income was largely dependent on tips.
Oh my god that would be so embarassing.
I always tip at least 20%... if its bad service I might do 15%. If its good, I've been known to tip 30-50%. Even though I've never worked a job where I got tips, I've worked customer service and retail and I commiserate with people in those positions so I always try to be super nice and easygoing with them.
I tipped the stylist 30% when I got my hair done last week. Expensive but worth it!
Oh that's awful. I hate when I go out to lunch with someone and they tip like 10%. I always try to sneak an extra dollar on the table when they're not looking. I'd be mortified by your ex-Fi's mother.
I tip 20% at a minimum for restaurants, unless the service is awful, and it's usually closer to 25%. For a haircut or massage appointment, I tip 20% but round it up the nearest $5. When I go to Starbucks or Peet's or whatever, I'll toss the change in the cup, and if I go frequently in a week, I'll toss a buck or two in at least once. For delivery, we tip $1 an item, unless we just get a pizza in which case we give them a twenty and let them keep the change (so it's like 3 bucks).
20% plus for good service.
15% per bad service.
Nothing for terrible service. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I feel the need to make a real impression.
I think there's only been once where H and I didn't leave a tip at all. The service was BAD. Like really, really, really bad.
I always tip at least 20% in restaurants. If the service was terrible (cranky server, wrong food, whatever) I still do about 10 - 15% cause I figure everyone has a bad day once in a while. If I've had a cranky server (which hasn't been often), I always wonder if they just found out their grandmother was in the hospital or something. Plus serving is a sh*tty job, what with all the rude and demanding people I see in restaurants, so I feel kind of bad for them. I tip higher if I've seen them get berated by another person in the restaurant.
Also, I'm kind of disappointed this wasn't the bat signal for that psychotic tipping nutjob. Although the day is young.
The person who put your takeout together is often a person who is still making less than minimum wage (like a bartender, or server). They still have to take your order, fight the kitchen for it, make sure it's there and correct, put it all together, and give it to you. I'm not saying they should be tipped 20% of the check, but I think they deserve something. I bartended my way through college and takeout was the biggest pain in the butt. I had to leave my bar customers and run around like a maniac in the kitchen to get the takeout together only to get stiffed nearly every time. It was so frustrating, and I had to neglect my bar customers which leads to lower tips.
this. I wait tables as a second job. I make 2.83 an hour. When I don't get tipped, not only do I not make money, but I have to pay other people and tip them out based on my sales. So if I have someone who has a 100 check and they don't tip I am still responsible for paying the bartender 2.00 and the back waiters 5.00 which means I PAID 7.00 to wait on that table and made NOTHING.
this. I wait tables as a second job. I make 2.83 an hour. When I don't get tipped, not only do I not make money, but I have to pay other people and tip them out based on my sales. So if I have someone who has a 100 check and they don't tip I am still responsible for paying the bartender 2.00 and the back waiters 5.00 which means I PAID 7.00 to wait on that table and made NOTHING.