― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't have any set guidelines - most of the bars I go to, I know the staff and get better prices. I tip at least a dollar or two per drink, or if they charge me employee prices, I'll tip 100%. That way the staff gets a great tip and I'm about even with what I'd pay normally.
How can you justify not tipping (in the US, at least)? Most waiters and waitresses are earning about $2.13 an hour, which covers taxes if they're lucky. When I bartended, I was making minimum wage. Service staff depend on your tips. You are their income. Not extra money, not a little something on the side - tips are it. (I don't know if this is the same in big cities like NYC or Chicago.)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 22 May 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's a lie and a half.
― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
having bartenders ask friends for my addy in ethiopia and send me x-mas cards was both touching and kinda scary.
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
whas his name? the way it is writeen up there looks like urkel (pronunciation) and that aint no good ethiop name.
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
like fuck it is, as anyone who knows or has worked with bartenders can tell you
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I mean... if you pay someone for a free drink, it isnt a free drink. Maybe it makes sense if you've grown up with it but it seems nonsensical to me.
We just have "tip jars" on the bar/counter in cafes and bars and you chuck coinage into it if you want to (ie if they've given great service I guess). No one expects tips and would thus sneer at you for not giving one.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bladderwort, Friday, 23 May 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah. *makes like West Side Story*
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
--Norm MacDonald (who probably tips)
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
I dunno, you whacky Americans...
― petra jane (petra jane), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
In the States I've been known to tip generously on my first trip to the bar and less so thereafter. Is this bad? My thinking is that they'll think I'm a good guy on first contact and subconsciously I'll get stuck with that association in their heads.
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also think the fact that, in some of the pubs I like best, if you tried to do the 'one for yourself' thing (which is obviously the only acceptable form of tipping in the pub) more than once an evening, you would be treated with total suspicion and, very likely, derision.
Also Mark C's tipping strategy = glorious skinflintery.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
And any bartender who wants to be tipped because his job is so hard can come to work with me or suck it.
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 23 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
also, "In former Soviet Union, they tip YOU for fixing mistake on check" ?????????????
dont remember this. anything like this happened, the onyl 'tip' you got was eyes full of hate 4ever
― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 23 May 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
So you make a habit of going to a restaurant, ordering ONLY water, and thus not having to pay for anything, then? That's a ridiculous comment. The water is part of the service you tip for at a restaurant--assuming you aren't COMPLETELY FILTHY CHEAP and tip after a meal.
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Are none of you familiar with Yakoff Smirnoff's schtick? Everything was backwards in former Soviet Union, according to him. Except I think he is serious.
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do I go into bars and drink only free Coke? Nope.On the seldom occassions that I do have a Coke, do I tip for it? Nope.Does the bartender come to my table and refill it for me? No, because if he did he'd be a waiter and I'd tip him.
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 23 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
"over"
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
*KISS*
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 May 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link