Tipping when eating out.

Samuel T. Cogley

Inspired by the other tips thread. What's the story with tips when eating in a restaurant?

I tend to leave about 10% of the bill.

Effects

You don't have to. We've never had a tipping culture in Ireland, as opposed to places like the US.

maestroamado

I do more or less the same but try to tip with paper money.
If the bill was €60 i might give €5 and if €90 be €10 and so on.
If i was having working bar lunch i would not tip unless ther be a few of us.
Also i pay with card and tip cash...

EmmetSpiceland

10% in a nice, proper, restaurant? Nah, that’s for cafes and “burger” places.

15-20%, near always 20, in a restaurant.

Church on Tuesday

A few cents if I happen to have change on me the odd time.

monkeysnapper

I'd always round it up ...n when I have my children with me I give them money to tip staff .

If eating out then around 10% ...

Its nice to be nice ....

Theres a few places we go often and always tip good and weve been rewarded back for our kindness .

Thelonious Monk

Effects wrote: »

You don't have to. We've never had a tipping culture in Ireland, as opposed to places like the US.

We do have a tipping culture, we tip more than the UK and the European countries barely tip at all.
I leave usually 10 or 15% depending on service etc.

Wanderer2010

I leave nothing. Paying the bill is enough. This is Ireland, not America.

McGinniesta

A big fart

stratowide

Thought this thread was about something else entirely..:D

Errashareesh

Tip it gently initially, then build up the pressure/friction.

MrKingsley

Work in service and completely understand when a family/friends or couple are just out for a simple dinner not tipping. Its my job to serve the tables

However when there’s a (Generally rude) table that has you running around the place(at the expense of other customers) and requesting things every two minutes then I would expect one.

However it always works out the other way. The nice, polite, unassuming customers tip. The other shower rarely do

Renno123

I never leave a tip. I pay the amount charged. I am not responsible for paying the staff's wages directly.
I never understand tipping culture in Ireland . We have minimum wage here, and having spent many years working minimum wage jobs I never felt tipping was warranted for someone doing what they are contracted to do.

Allinall

Renno123 wrote: »

I never leave a tip. I pay the amount charged. I am not responsible for paying the staff's wages directly.
I never understand tipping culture in Ireland . We have minimum wage here, and having spent many years working minimum wage jobs I never felt tipping was warranted for someone doing what they are contracted to do.

Do you say “thank you” when someone brings your meal?

SlowMotion321

Generally 10% ONLY if the service is good! If they can't be arsed to do their job well I can't be arsed to reward that!

spacetweek

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I leave nothing. Paying the bill is enough. This is Ireland, not America.

It has become customary here to tip in restaurants. America has nothing to do with it.

maestroamado

I was on a trip several years ago and a guy in the group in the bar gave a tip of €20 to the barman the first night.
I said to him i would normally tip towards the end of trip, he said whats the point in that as you leaving.
He was right...

Lundstram

spacetweek wrote: »

It has become customary here to tip in restaurants. America has nothing to do with it.

How naive. America has everything to do with it.

I tip 0%. Minimum wage here is very generous compared to the vast majority of countries.

Bubbaclaus

Find people that don't leave a tip a bit ignorant tbh. Always leave at least 10%.

EmmetSpiceland

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

10% in a nice, proper, restaurant? Nah, that’s for cafes and “burger” places.

15-20%, near always 20, in a restaurant.

20% is ridiculous. I was out on Sunday and the bill came to 130. No way I was tipping 25 euro.

I left a fiver.

We needed nothing after the food was dropped down, leaving the food at the table is what they are paid to do.

Nobody tips me in my job.

Sardonicat

I tip what I can afford, which is not a lot. And I always try and tip the waiter/waitress directly. If the service is rubbish I won't be leaving a tip.

boomshakalaka

I tip when things were good. I tip whatever is handy and never feel obligated to.

Anyone work in a restaurant here?

How many tables do they deal with per hour. 5, 10, 15.

If people are seriously tipping 10 or 20%. That could mean tips of 100 or 200 euro on top of their wages.

Some 18 year old heading out the door ar the end of an evening with 200 or 300 euro would be madness.

BorneTobyWilde

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

10% in a nice, proper, restaurant? Nah, that’s for cafes and “burger” places.

15-20%, near always 20, in a restaurant.

20 euro, so a waitress might attend to 20 people on a Saturday , maybe 8 average for the rest of the 6 days in a week, so 68 tables in a week,
68 x 20 = 1360 euro in tips , plus a wage. Not likely.

Bubbaclaus

An interesting question would be how many waiters declare their tips for tax purposes.

JustAThought

boomshakalaka wrote: »

I tip when things were good. I tip whatever is handy and never feel obligated to.

Normally I’d be like this in a restaurant but only if the service was good - or if the person was really overworked and trying their bear against all odds.

Normally I’d never tip for coffee/lunch but at the moment seeing as they are risking imminent death/plague I throw a few coins into the
tip jar to show I appreciate them & it must be very aggrivating to have to wear a mask all
day ling while doing manual labour for buttons.

scudzilla

A few years back 4 of us went to , i think it was that Greek Restaurant in Malahide, bastards charged us 15% service charge as was a table of 4.

Never ever went back and told everyone i knew about them, guess they lost a lot of business that night.

I don't get it, why a service charge on tables of 4 or more

Deebles McBeebles

Sardonicat wrote: »

I tip what I can afford, which is not a lot. And I always try and tip the waiter/waitress directly. If the service is rubbish I won't be leaving a tip.

Thats a very important part of it. Owners could be dipping their hands into that tip jar too. Went out foreign a while before this virus hit and went to a lovely pizza place. First waiter was awful, second guy could not have been better, so I made sure to hand it directly to him on my way out.

angela1711

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Anyone work in a restaurant here?

How many tables do they deal with per hour. 5, 10, 15.

If people are seriously tipping 10 or 20%. That could mean tips of 100 or 200 euro on top of their wages.

Some 18 year old heading out the door ar the end of an evening with 200 or 300 euro would be madness.

I used to work in restaurants as a teenager which wasn’t that long ago a typical table would just round up the bill so if it came to a 149e they would tip a euro and so on. The way it would normally work is you would get your hourly wage and any tips would be divided amongst all of the employees. So if there were 10 people working a shift and the tips amounted to a 100 everyone would get their equal share.

BorneTobyWilde

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

An interesting question would be how many waiters declare their tips for tax purposes.

Why would you run to a Government who are taking taking taking, and look to give give give



'' I got a 5 in a tip how do I give you your cut '' It simulates the economy, that is enough.

John_Rambo

From Dublin, so yes, I do tip.

angela1711

Also to the people that think they are tipping the waitress that served them this may not necessarily be true as most places would share tips with kitchen staff. When I used to work in this environment it would be considered a big no no to take all the tips for yourself.

Bubbaclaus

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Why would you run to a Government who are taking taking taking, and look to give give give



'' I got a 5 in a tip how do I give you your cut '' It simulates the economy, that is enough.

I dont understand any of what you are trying to say. Are you suggesting tax evasion?

BorneTobyWilde

A waitress in Monaco makes around 550.00 euro per week in a wage, but in tips it could be anything, lots of money there, so I can imagine 100 euro tips from billionaires are common, and 10 euro tips flow like water.

bilbot79

Used to get into raging arguments with the wife about tipping. She likes to give mad tips cos 'i used to be a waitress I know what it's like' but I'd be like hang on, when I looked at the menu I didn't sign up for +25%!

It completely changes the transaction. Do I suddenly earn 25% extra in my life? Nope!

We settled on a permanent 10% no matter what but I hate it because it feels like us paying the staff instead of the employer

BorneTobyWilde

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

I dont understand any of what you are trying to say. Are you suggesting tax evasion?

Millions upon millions of cash is not declared in Ireland. It's the same the world over.

But money goes round and round. So it all does get declared by someone eventually. Small cafes, taxi drivers, handy men, gardeners, firewood sales, goes on and on, all get cash, and all put a little away, or purchase something they want. Quite normal, I don't do it by the way, everything I bill for needs an invoice, but I see it all the time.

Deebles McBeebles

John_Rambo wrote: »

From Dublin, so yes, I do tip.

Only thing a culchie tips is a cow.

EmmetSpiceland

Lot of miserly old “Scrooges” in this thread. Heaven forbid a member of the waiting staff should make a few quid extra for providing a decent service.

I’ve always found that tipping isn’t always an altruistic “gesture”, you do get remembered and are certain to be “looked after” next time you call in.

Hell, I’ve even thrown a few quid at the Maître D', when a place is fully booked, so as to “procure” a table for us. They know I’ll look after the waiting staff as well so it’s win-win and the group who’s table we took can wait a little longer.

You won’t get to take too many shortcuts without “greasing” a few palms along the way.

Next you’ll be saying you don’t tip your barber!

rob316

A few euro for dinner. Never in a cafe or lunch. Euro for a delivery guy. Tipping is custom in America because their wages are so crap they need tips to make anything. It's not necessary here but the culture of it has spilled into Irish society unfortunately.

Why not tip the postman?
The sales assistant in the shop?
The fella who washes your car?
The guy who stacks the shelves in supermarket?

I'm not a fan of it.

Coopaloop

Strange that people think tipping is new thing. I worked as lounge staffin a pub nearly 18 years ago and used to make a fortune in tips,so its definitely not a new thing. Most nites would come out with nearly £80/€100euro in tips (yes before we changed to euro) so for food I would always tip. It's nice to be nice and a little bit of extra gratitude for good service.

poisonated

If someone is treating me out(which is obviously very nice of them) I always feel guilty when they do not tip. Sometimes I would give them a tip but that’s probably a social faux pas is it?

I myself would always tip about 10 percent if I’m getting table service.

rob316

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Next you’ll be saying you don’t tip your barber!

I don't. I pay the price advertised there is no reason to pay anymore

DVDM93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ

EmmetSpiceland

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Lot of miserly old “Scrooges” in this thread. Heaven forbid a member of the waiting staff should make a few quid extra for providing a decent service.

I’ve always found that tipping isn’t always an altruistic “gesture”, you do get remembered and are certain to be “looked after” next time you call in.

Hell, I’ve even thrown a few quid at the Maître D', when a place is fully booked, so as to “procure” a table for us. They know I’ll look after the waiting staff as well so it’s win-win and the group who’s table we took can wait a little longer.

You won’t get to take too many shortcuts without “greasing” a few palms along the way.

Next you’ll be saying you don’t tip your barber!

What do you mean looked after, you turn up and they come and take your order as the business wants you in, eat your food and out fairly sharpish so the table can be filled by the next customers.If you need anything you catch their eye and ask for it.

Id say they are laughing at flash Harry tipping everyone in sight

I'm my own barber btw unfortunately.

PsychoPete

It depends how attractive the waitress is

rob316

DVDM93 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ

That's the point and valid why tip certain industries but not others?

I a business account manager, which is nothing but servicing clients. I've never gotten a tip or gratuity from a client.

Without Borders

I give a great tip always.





"Wear a condom"
And
"If you cant be good be careful"

scudzilla

Genuine answer here, when we go out I pay

If the waitress is hot and good looking she'll get a good tip, if she's a pig or if a male waiter they get nothing.

gmisk

I tend to always tip unless service is poor 10-15 percent roughly.
I have been a waiter before so I feel their pain!

I'd tip 10% of the bill 95% of the time..... In a decent spot that's usually a tenner..... Plenty IMO.

Renno123

Allinall wrote: »

Do you say “thank you” when someone brings your meal?

Absolutely. And I always thank the staff when leaving.