Should I tip for a free drink?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (101 of them)

the gratuity is taken care of by the host of the open bar.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

I was at a BBQ festival at the Brooklyn Brewery two weeks ago. All you can eat and drink, tickets were $85. And the bartender was giving me dirty looks when I wasn't tipping! I PAID $85!!! (well, I didn't, but my friend did for me)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

That's annoying. Like when you go to a place that has service included in the check (like often hotel bars and restaurants of they automatically add 18% for large parties) and there's also a line for the tip on top of the service charge. In Europe, sometimes they even yell at you for not tipping, even though service was included in the bill. They want to shame you into tipping just because they know you're American, even though you're not in America!

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

just keep telling yourself that, gygax

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

The Brooklyn Brewery is lame. Next time he sneers, give him a little chunk of wood. There's your 20%...

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

t.,

having been the best man at two weddings and i've had to (again, as custom) pony up for this expense each time. one guy even included the tip! so not only were people stuffing ones in his cup, he included his gratuity (buried in the invoice), and he left a line on the bill for additional "love"!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

it is urgent and key that Felicity and I bond over Yakov Smirnoff asap

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

One Smirnoff on ice for me, and one for my friend, please.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

"bond"

"over"

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

ok fine, "make fun of." happy, Y-pants?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

"pants"

*KISS*

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

That does sound devious, gygax. I suppose those situations are worked out pretty thoroughly beforehand so no one gets the wrong idea and no one gets screwed (except of course you). But at an open bar at a club or a bar I always assume the bartenders are just making the same thing they always do but that CERTAIN people harbor CERTAIN misconceptions about their compensation leaving certain others of us to take up the slack.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.