I always start at 20%, if you suck as a waiter, it drops down to zero and you deserved it. If you're amazing I might go as high as 30%. So don't f'ing complain about not getting tipped if you didn't earn it because tipping isn't mandatory.
don't forget that often servers have to tip out their 'helpers' even if they didn't help a percentage of their sales wether they earned that much or not. I have had to tip out up to 50% of what I earned in tips for a night, sucks!!! you have to tip out a bartender even is you never go to the bar for a drink for your guests. who made this rule??
If you don't like what I have to say, tough. It's your right to disagree with what I say, but I will still tell it like it is. I don't get tips in my job, and I work longer hours than most servers. Being an officer in the Navy does not afford me the opportunity to go home every day and be with my friends and family. An enlisted person does the same thing and gets paid even less. Neither of us get tips, but even so, we give our service freely. Perhaps waiters should follow our example of service.
I'm tired of hearing a server's sob stories about how "poor" tipping is the customers' faults. Who is responsible for how much you get paid? The employer is. Don't try to pawn off the responsibility on the customer for paying you enough simply because your employer rules you with an iron fist. Be grateful that you get tips in the first place, because tipping is NOT mandatory. Gratuity is meant to be given for exceptional service. If you can't earn it, don't gripe about it.
@MelkorHimself read the menu stupid it says on there what normal tipping is and tipping is mandatory and even included in your bill if there are 6 or more guests some high end places include the tip no matter how many people and does no one realize your server has to tip out each of their bar tenders bus boy and food runners 2-4% of their sales irregardless of wether they made that much.
AT times a server may have to tip out 50% or more to their helpers thus reducing their income
@tncooks If tipping were mandatory, it would be law. Again, the customer is not responsible for the pay system which a tipped employee experiences. The employer is fully responsible for paying their employees a livable wage.
Tipping is not a town in China. Minimum should be 15% and if I get very good service I leave 20% and sometimes 25%. I'll bet the repeat customers who stiff the waitpersons often wind up with saliva, boogers, or urine in their food. And I'll bet the people who say "There should be no tipping. The bosses should pay more" would be the first ones to complain if it happened because the price of a meal would have to go up as a result.
$8 is the current federal minimum wage. In some states its 2.13 and some its lower; because they consider tips as part of the obligation to pay minimum wage. But in california where I live its $8 even for tipped employees. Waiters, bartenders, pizza deliverers, etc. all deserve to earn MORE than minimum wage and I'm glad California gets that. My job actually pays my bills and I also get to see a real paycheck. Everything is super expensive here though, but I wouldnt want to live anywhere else.
I am a cocktail server at a casino in San Bernardino and nobody tips. I think if you dont tip then you need to get your own goddamn drinks! I hate the people who say "I dont have any more money" because they have it all in the machine or the people who say " I will catch you later". I have seen so be warned that if you do not tip then you WILL lose all of your money. A penny, nickel, or dime, is not a tip!! It isnt 1930. Today $1 at least!
@Kryptongurl84 If you're brazen enough to threaten people with negative repercussions for not tipping you what you consider enough, then you are an immoral, greedy excuse of a human being, and you should not be interacting with society. You took this job knowing its shortfalls, so do it. Stop being greedy and expecting that the customers pay your mortgage. If you don't get paid enough, take it up with your boss and the federal government, because they're actually responsible.
Don't complain. If you're not receiving great tips, then you're not giving exceptional service. Don't blame your guests. They won't come back. Your guests can see your frustration. Don't think they don't notice.
If you're totally dissatisfied with your income (including tips), get out of the industry. Get a job where you don't depend living on tips. Stop complaining.
Then STOP TAKING JOBS WHERE YOU GET PAID $2.13 AN HOUR !! Seriously, who's forcing you to take these jobs ? When you're in the interview, and the con man/boss tells you that you will make $2.13 cents an hour, at what point does your brain say "you know what, you might not be able to get by on that amount, maybe you shouldn't work here." Instead of being mad at us as customers, go to you bosses and tell them that paying you $2.13 an hour is complete bullshit.
Perhaps we should build the service charge into the cost of your meal, then you wouldn't be heard at all.....just the way we like it dumb ass. I am an excellent waiter and I give 100 percent all of the time. Some of the folks responding to your video have never done any work...I hope they need to pick up a part time job where I am....good luck with that attitude.
so get a different job, 2.13 is not even minimum wage, why don't you get a job that pays a wage you can live on, why do you let them steal from you, and then blame everyone else?
2.13 is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees. Servers are required to claim their tips and are taxed on those tips. If you don't want to tip your servers, then by all means demand that they get paid more. Don't be surprised, however, if the menu prices go up dramatically. Fucker
@electrahunter And if the menu prices increase, Capitalism 101 says that fewer people will patronize that establishment, thereby rendering the owner S.O.L.
Personally, I see very little difference in the quality of service at various restaurants. I always tip 15%, and view it as just part of the bill. I rarely do it out of appreciation. Nobody ever "appreciated" any hard work that I ever did in my life, nor was I ever tipped even one single time in my entire life.
$2.13 an hr. its really shite money. In ireland(where i'm from) u get paid a decent amount of money. minimum wage is €8($11) at least and then u would give 10% tip if the service is good.
FUCK GRATUNITY
edwardd6681 2 months ago
FUCK GRATUNITY
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edwardd6681 4 months ago
I always start at 20%, if you suck as a waiter, it drops down to zero and you deserved it. If you're amazing I might go as high as 30%. So don't f'ing complain about not getting tipped if you didn't earn it because tipping isn't mandatory.
SanguineBullet667 1 year ago
don't forget that often servers have to tip out their 'helpers' even if they didn't help a percentage of their sales wether they earned that much or not. I have had to tip out up to 50% of what I earned in tips for a night, sucks!!! you have to tip out a bartender even is you never go to the bar for a drink for your guests. who made this rule??
tncooks 1 year ago
If you don't like what I have to say, tough. It's your right to disagree with what I say, but I will still tell it like it is. I don't get tips in my job, and I work longer hours than most servers. Being an officer in the Navy does not afford me the opportunity to go home every day and be with my friends and family. An enlisted person does the same thing and gets paid even less. Neither of us get tips, but even so, we give our service freely. Perhaps waiters should follow our example of service.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago 21
I'm tired of hearing a server's sob stories about how "poor" tipping is the customers' faults. Who is responsible for how much you get paid? The employer is. Don't try to pawn off the responsibility on the customer for paying you enough simply because your employer rules you with an iron fist. Be grateful that you get tips in the first place, because tipping is NOT mandatory. Gratuity is meant to be given for exceptional service. If you can't earn it, don't gripe about it.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago 20
@MelkorHimself read the menu stupid it says on there what normal tipping is and tipping is mandatory and even included in your bill if there are 6 or more guests some high end places include the tip no matter how many people and does no one realize your server has to tip out each of their bar tenders bus boy and food runners 2-4% of their sales irregardless of wether they made that much.
AT times a server may have to tip out 50% or more to their helpers thus reducing their income
tncooks 1 year ago
@tncooks If tipping were mandatory, it would be law. Again, the customer is not responsible for the pay system which a tipped employee experiences. The employer is fully responsible for paying their employees a livable wage.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago
Tipping is not a town in China. Minimum should be 15% and if I get very good service I leave 20% and sometimes 25%. I'll bet the repeat customers who stiff the waitpersons often wind up with saliva, boogers, or urine in their food. And I'll bet the people who say "There should be no tipping. The bosses should pay more" would be the first ones to complain if it happened because the price of a meal would have to go up as a result.
NYCman530 2 years ago
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trigga1uk 2 years ago
@trigga1uk
If thats the case why dont they include it directly in the tab?
Ducky888888 1 year ago
$8 is the current federal minimum wage. In some states its 2.13 and some its lower; because they consider tips as part of the obligation to pay minimum wage. But in california where I live its $8 even for tipped employees. Waiters, bartenders, pizza deliverers, etc. all deserve to earn MORE than minimum wage and I'm glad California gets that. My job actually pays my bills and I also get to see a real paycheck. Everything is super expensive here though, but I wouldnt want to live anywhere else.
calipoppy6 2 years ago
Im with you guys 100 percent! And for the ppl below who dont get it then you have no room to talk unless you have done our job.
LittleLaci 3 years ago
I am a cocktail server at a casino in San Bernardino and nobody tips. I think if you dont tip then you need to get your own goddamn drinks! I hate the people who say "I dont have any more money" because they have it all in the machine or the people who say " I will catch you later". I have seen so be warned that if you do not tip then you WILL lose all of your money. A penny, nickel, or dime, is not a tip!! It isnt 1930. Today $1 at least!
Kryptongurl84 3 years ago
@Kryptongurl84 If you're brazen enough to threaten people with negative repercussions for not tipping you what you consider enough, then you are an immoral, greedy excuse of a human being, and you should not be interacting with society. You took this job knowing its shortfalls, so do it. Stop being greedy and expecting that the customers pay your mortgage. If you don't get paid enough, take it up with your boss and the federal government, because they're actually responsible.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago 12
The problem here is the minimum wage exception, and the culture of tipping. Tipping should be non-existent.
BillBisco 3 years ago
Don't complain. If you're not receiving great tips, then you're not giving exceptional service. Don't blame your guests. They won't come back. Your guests can see your frustration. Don't think they don't notice.
If you're totally dissatisfied with your income (including tips), get out of the industry. Get a job where you don't depend living on tips. Stop complaining.
ParrotBayCoconut 3 years ago
serving = girls job
rufusdawes12 3 years ago
Then STOP TAKING JOBS WHERE YOU GET PAID $2.13 AN HOUR !! Seriously, who's forcing you to take these jobs ? When you're in the interview, and the con man/boss tells you that you will make $2.13 cents an hour, at what point does your brain say "you know what, you might not be able to get by on that amount, maybe you shouldn't work here." Instead of being mad at us as customers, go to you bosses and tell them that paying you $2.13 an hour is complete bullshit.
OhioKev 3 years ago
Perhaps we should build the service charge into the cost of your meal, then you wouldn't be heard at all.....just the way we like it dumb ass. I am an excellent waiter and I give 100 percent all of the time. Some of the folks responding to your video have never done any work...I hope they need to pick up a part time job where I am....good luck with that attitude.
latrinad 4 years ago
so get a different job, 2.13 is not even minimum wage, why don't you get a job that pays a wage you can live on, why do you let them steal from you, and then blame everyone else?
dog8788 4 years ago
2.13 is the federal minimum wage for tipped employees. Servers are required to claim their tips and are taxed on those tips. If you don't want to tip your servers, then by all means demand that they get paid more. Don't be surprised, however, if the menu prices go up dramatically. Fucker
electrahunter 4 years ago
you mean it might go up by 20%? big fucking deal--i guess i really wouldnt notice then, would i?
dog8788 4 years ago
@electrahunter And if the menu prices increase, Capitalism 101 says that fewer people will patronize that establishment, thereby rendering the owner S.O.L.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago 9
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bkekss 4 years ago
Personally, I see very little difference in the quality of service at various restaurants. I always tip 15%, and view it as just part of the bill. I rarely do it out of appreciation. Nobody ever "appreciated" any hard work that I ever did in my life, nor was I ever tipped even one single time in my entire life.
veronesedissident 3 years ago
@bkekss
Or maybe fuck all the greedy waiters.
See i can swear too.
Ducky888888 1 year ago
$2.13 an hr. its really shite money. In ireland(where i'm from) u get paid a decent amount of money. minimum wage is €8($11) at least and then u would give 10% tip if the service is good.
jazzyjeff19 4 years ago