Do you tip staff?

Dave! · 14-11-2006 10:15PM

Ruu wrote:

This has been done a number of times. I tip when I get good service otherwise, I leave a penny on the table. That should tell the server what I think.

"Work harder next time and you'll get more than a shiny penny"

!

Steyr · 15-11-2006 02:15AM

micmclo wrote:

I’ve been told I’m pretty ignorant in shops as when I ask for a bag in a store in I always wait for the staff to pack my bag.
I’d never do it myself even if this holds up people in the queue.

You lazy Git, i imagine one of these days you will get yours from a customer behind you whos in a rush..Just a matter of time.
Pack your own bags.

Thrill · 15-11-2006 02:33AM

Steyr wrote:

You lazy Git, i imagine one of these days you will get yours from a customer behind you whos in a rush..Just a matter of time.
Pack your own bags.

I think your ignorance at calling the ignorant OP ignorant is downright ignorance.

Anyway,on topic, I only tip cabbies.
There, thats my 2 cents worth, ooh...and a 1 cent tip.

bohsman · 15-11-2006 06:08AM

Im a good tipper but then I work in a casino and more than 50% of my pay is in tips, never knew you were supposed to tip barbers though, even for a dry cut?

tricky D · 15-11-2006 06:52AM

bohsman wrote:

but then I work in a casino and more than 50% of my pay is in tips,...

call that 6 month old bluff

tipping dealers more means better cards, flops, turns and rivers... FACT

phantom_lord · 15-11-2006 07:14AM

tricky D wrote:

call that 6 month old bluff

tipping dealers more means better cards, flops, turns and rivers... FACT

u lie...

Archeron · 15-11-2006 10:02AM

I will only tip the people who truly deserve it. The colonic irrigation nurse, the local organ grinder (his break-dancing monkey is a sight to behold) and of course the woman who sells warm macademia nuts from a wheelbarrow in Fairyhouse market.

15-11-2006 10:25AM

I tip based upon the level of service anyplace from zero to 20 percent (except in places like Paris where the gratituity is often built into the check). While overseas in the States I discovered that waiters, waitresses, and barmen/women can be paid a subnormal wage by their employers, and that they are expected to make up the difference (or do better) based upon their tips for service.

I have also discovered that in a coffeehouse that I frequent near a university, the student servers rarely get tipped. When I do tip them for good service, they remember, and I find they bend over backwards to take care of me whenever I enter their establishment.

Pighead · 15-11-2006 11:14AM

If Pigheads wining and dining with his fair lady in a fancy restaurant he feels obliged to leave a decent tip. Part of the reason I tip is because I want to impress the lady but mostly I do it because of the pangs of guilt I feel as I rob yet another set of their fine silver cutlery.

Rb · 15-11-2006 11:17AM

I'm a good tipper, maybe too good sometimes!
I always tip the barber, its usually €16 for my haircut and then I'll just give him/her a €20 and tell him to keep the change. Depends though, if I don't get the chance to go to that barber and have to go to the local one, if they do a bad job of it (which they sometimes do, prompting me to change barber) they'll get nothing.

I'm generally quite chatty in a taxi and if the taxi drivers a nice guy or hasn't tried to rip us off, he'll get a good tip.

Having worked in a bar as lounge staff when I was younger, I always tip them these days knowing how crappy the work can be and how much you rely on the tips.

Waiters/waitresses in restaurants always get a tip, varied depending on the size of the bill and the service I received. I always try and get a waiter/waitress to take the tip and not put it into a jar/pool though, pooled tips are ridiculously unfair.

Whenever I'm ordering food for delivery I use a credit card, never seem to have change at the time so its very rare that I tip the delivery drivers.

15-11-2006 01:02PM

I tip when I'm in a restaurant
just habit
rest of the time no, and im too broke to do so anyway

Pighead · 15-11-2006 01:09PM

Pighead used to tip good looking chicks. Yeah thats right, whenever I was walking down the street and i spied a looker I'd stop her and give her 1.50.

She'd say "Whats that for" and I'd reply "Looking at you babes has brightened up my day and I feel I simply must repay you"

Didn't cost me that much really as lets face it this country is full of mingers.

Had to give it up though since the influx of red hot Eastern European chicks into the country.

lacuna · 15-11-2006 01:31PM

I think that tipping used to be more important due to the fact that people working in the service industry were on bad wages and made up for that by receiving tips for providing really good service. But these days waiters and waitresses usually get paid really well.
As a student, I don't have money to be throwing at people who are earning more than I am, just because they do their job. I never tip in bars in Dublin...the damn drinks are expensive enough. In restaurants, I suppose it's just habit that I give a tip if the service was really good. If I get a taxi, I'm more likely to tip him if the driver hasn't talked to me for the whole journey.

stovelid · 15-11-2006 01:58PM

I always go out of my way to be sound to people who are providing a service for me unless they are being unduly ignorant.

I always tip waiting staff even if the particular waiter/waitress is crap or rude. Tips are usually shared and one idiot shouldn't affect somebody else's tips.

In places I regularly frequent, I'll also leave a tip for counter staff if there is a tip jar.

I don't tip taxi drivers for short trips but for a journey home from town (i.e about 10 kilometres), I wouldn't ask for change up to 2 or 3 euro.

I always try and pack my own bag in a shop except if it would embarrass them to (i.e a Mr s Doyle situation where you are fighting over who will pack

)

Tipping is optional but I hate unnecessary rudeness to service staff.

micmclo wrote:

A few people in the office are back from New York and were talking about how all the service staff expected to be tipped.

So, on your day to day business around town, would you tip staff?
Barman, Waiters, taxi drivers (this is a controversial one), etc.

In my case, I never would as I think you either tip everyone or noone.
After all, why do people have to tip a waitress who brings a coffee and pastry but wouldn’t dream of doing that in a fast food outlet?

Come to think of it, I’ve been told I’m pretty ignorant in shops as when I ask for a bag in a store in I always wait for the staff to pack my bag.
I’d never do it myself even if this holds up people in the queue.

I’m happy enough with that.
So do you always tip, pack your bags in shops and are courteous to staff always?

stovelid · 15-11-2006 02:03PM

Truth.

I worked in all kinds of jobs in college and valued being treated like a human being and of course getting as much tips on top of my crap wages as possible. I probably over compensate now by giving overlarge tips.

rb_ie wrote:

I'm a good tipper, maybe too good sometimes!

...can be and how much you rely on the tips.
.

Where are these places lacuna? I doubt that most waiting staff would be getting so much money that tips are unnecessary? Not challenging you but it certainly wasn't like that for me as recently as 6 years ago..

lacuna wrote:

I think that tipping used to be more important due to the fact that people working in the service industry were on bad wages and made up for that by receiving tips for providing really good service. But these days waiters and waitresses usually get paid really well.

MAYPOP · 15-11-2006 09:22PM

Pighead wrote:

Pighead used to tip good looking chicks. Yeah thats right, whenever I was walking down the street and i spied a looker I'd stop her and give her 1.50.

She'd say "Whats that for" and I'd reply "Looking at you babes has brightened up my day and I feel I simply must repay you"

Didn't cost me that much really as lets face it this country is full of mingers.

Had to give it up though since the influx of red hot Eastern European chicks into the country.

LOL

I don't tip anyone - I pays me bill and that's that.

tricky D · 16-11-2006 03:28AM

phantom_lord wrote:

u lie...

nope, I just proved it myself by winning and leaving a nice tip... which was nice.... and on my bday which was even nicer

(next you'll be telling me J4 is a bad hand)

phantom_lord · 16-11-2006 06:43AM

tricky D wrote:

nope, I just proved it myself by winning and leaving a nice tip... which was nice.... and on my bday which was even nicer

(next you'll be telling me J4 is a bad hand)

Not if it's soooooooted. wd anyhoo.

franksm · 16-11-2006 09:52AM

I tip taxi drivers and takeaway delivery dudes/dudettes.

For restaurants, I'd leave 10 to 15% as a tip if happy with the meal/service. And if paying by credit card, I would always leave the tip on the table as cash, just to make sure the waitress gets it.

But... it p!sses me off that some places put the service charge on the bill automatically. It's like a tax ! It should be a choice, I mean it's as if they're expecting you to pay for the dishes to be washed and food to be delivered from the kitchen separate from the actual "meal". BS.

I have noticed people tipping on their bill even though "service charge" was already included - usually 'cos they missed that on the bill.

blorg · 16-11-2006 10:57AM

stovelid wrote:

I always tip waiting staff even if the particular waiter/waitress is crap or rude. Tips are usually shared and one idiot shouldn't affect somebody else's tips.

Pooling tips really does sort of go against the whole point of the practice though, to encourage good personal service. If service was _really_ bad I wouldn't leave a tip, but it would have to be pretty awful. I think maybe happened once in the last few years - that sort of awful. If it was just bad tip would certainly go down, but not if they were trying (e.g. first day sort of thing - tend to tip more then.)

franksm wrote:

But... it p!sses me off that some places put the service charge on the bill automatically. It's like a tax ! It should be a choice, I mean it's as if they're expecting you to pay for the dishes to be washed and food to be delivered from the kitchen separate from the actual "meal". BS.

I have noticed people tipping on their bill even though "service charge" was already included - usually 'cos they missed that on the bill.

Completely agree, if there is a service charge added not a red cent above in a tip. What really gets me about some of these places is that despite adding a % service charge there is _still_ space for the gratuity on the credit card receipt. This is a plain con. They are doing themselves out of it too as the service charge is always less than I would have tipped.

The one exception to this is the "service charge on parties of 6 or more" thing - I think that is actually perfectly sensible as it really can be difficult to agree on and extract the tip from a large group. I've had too many bad experiences trying to get a tip arranged in such circumstances, especially if people are paying for what they had rather than a straight split (invariably at least one person "forgets" the tip, generally the same person who "forgets" the cover/bread charge, their mineral water, and that they had a glass of wine :rolleyes:)

Do you tip staff?

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