"Restaurant servers rely on tips for survival, but a growing number of critics are pointing out that the system is flawed.

The standard tip on dinner checks is now as much as 25%, reports Venessa Wong at Bloomberg Businessweek.

But while upscale servers can earn good money, the cooks who prepare the food make minimum wage.

Restaurateur Michael Chiarello, who owns Bottega in Manhattan, said that his servers make up to $90,000 a year through tips, while cooks earn close to minimum wage. "

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cooks...#ixzz3hmbQW7k5

depends on the situation really, if it wasn't their fault then i will still tip them.

what about if the food is crap?

I always leave a tip because they do a great job, are basically at your beckon call throughout your time in the restaurant etc.

I give taxi drivers a tip when I use them but that's rare.

I give delivery men and workmen at my house a fiver and sometimes at xmas I also give them some cans or bottles of beer.

I give takeaway delivery drivers a tip every time.

If any of my family members or close friends are in hospital I always hand in some flowers or a box of chocolates or biscuits into the nurses station when they are getting home.

Because it's nice to be nice and these people all do a good job :shrug:

I send it back, pay for what I've had... usually drinks... and leave. I'm not having a full service so I don't tip.

binmen?

flight attendants (at your beck and call)

LT struggling to accept that not everyone's a miserable ol git like him? :idc:

Better service doesn't actually beget better tips

Diners love the power to bestow or withhold financial reward at their whim; servers, in turn, seem to be motivated by the idea that really excellent service could be rewarded by a monster gratuity. The trouble is, that's not actually how things pan out in practice. Michael Lynn, a professor at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, has spent his career researching tipping behaviors, and found that perceived service quality only accounts for two percent of the variation between tips. Two percent! It's probably not even enough to be picked up on by the server, much less cause a significant change in behaviour.

http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/re...egal-15603180/

binman is apparently a good paid job and so it should be, and i hardly ever see them.

I gave a flight attendant £5 before because I found her pretty (I was 7) but I would give a flight attendant tips because they try and make you have a good flight.

I never eat out so dont have to worry about it but I do think it should be challenged and I do think people do it for fear of not doing it

and that is wrong

Also attractive girls always get the best tips, fact

how is that fair in 2015?

its sexism

:nono:

9 Reasons We Should Abolish Tipping, Once And For All
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5991796.html



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My family always tips; I don't. I pay what I owe them and leave. I'm not giving someone extra money for doing their job, they'll get what they deserve in their pay cheque at the end of the month.

I tip if the service was good. Of course, i'm not gonna tip if the service was crap :laugh:

I think it's a nice thing to do. And tbh, if people don't tip I think they're just tight.

if the service was good and the staff were friendly, then tip.

I never tip for food but i have been known to leave my number :smug:

I only ever leave a tip now, if I have had good and non intrusive service. Otherwise I politely thank them on leaving but leave no tip.

I tip most of the time if the staff made you feel happy and appreciated. I appreciate how hard and stressful the job can be as I done it myself.

It's a big thing in america because their minimum wage is so low. it's not so low over here so i rarely do it.

I do it because i was a server and i remember how happy i was to finish a long day dealing with assholes and kissing ass, and see all those cash money tips. it's a nice feeling.

And you get it dammit.

...you're tipping because it's a service thing, which is different to things like retail..someone has served you, yeah they get paid for that but they don't get paid accordingly to the level of service that's given, it's often left for the person being served to appreciate that and give accordingly...

...anyways, yes I tip at restaurants/taxis/hairdressers/any people working at my house/the guys who take my rubbish away and etc etc...sometimes it's a cash tip and sometimes it's a different type of gift...

when i visit my fave restaurant i leave the same tip every-time - tell chef it was beautiful and i am looking forward to tomoz meal.

:joker:

:joker::joker: Keep 'em coming.

mmmmm.....:laugh:

If I go and eat somewhere and the service is good I think it's only fair to tip, the waiter/waitress work their asses off and get minimum wage.

We went to Mexico when I was 14 (my aunts wedding) and I stayed in a room with my cousin and the woman who came to clean the rooms was so so sweet, she gave us extra towels and she would always try speaking to us even though she did struggle with english and she even went out of her way to tidy up after us, obviously two teenagers make a mess but she would hang stuff up and idk she was just so attentive so we left her all our Peso's we had left because we will never go to Mexico again soon anyway it was about 800 pesos which is probably £25 and when we did she cried her eyes out and hugged us and said she was so thankful and the money was going towards her children etc.

I am in line with most on this thread, and always tip in restaurants when the meal and service has been good. If the waiter/waitress has been particularly pleasant and efficient I tend to leave a larger tip.

I do think, however, that LT is winding us all up to a degree in his mischievous way, because I do not believe that he is really the miserable old miser he would have us believe.

I normally just have enough for my meal I've never left a tip before.

Isn´t tip money a taxable income?

In here it´s called drink money or service money, and it´s not a standard procedure.

On here a average waitress pay is 1 921 € per month apparently.

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To add: Tipping isn´t a standard here and therefore people rarely give them. The people who do the service rarely ask for a tip too.

I have never tipped, but that´s because i usually can´t afford to do so. And it´s because i have never been on a place where tipping is expected.

Once you can live with some waitress thinking you are a **** for not giving her money for no reason other than she was nice its easy to not leave a tip


you just have to punch through the storm to the other side, where it is sunny and you have more money

:spin:

to me, someone who doesn't leave a tip at a restaurant, is like a guest at your house, if you cook for them, they don't bring any wine, they don't offer to help, they don't offer to wash afterwards,

it's just rude.

if you are being served you should be doing something to return the favor, and i'd rather pay a tip than do the dishes!

i always tip well. i actually get upset with my boyfriend when he doesn't.

This

Not something worth over thinking :shrug:

It's nice to tip and it also doesn't matter if you don't. Who cares? :shrug:

Have you thought about a career in politics?