Leaving tips in cafes - pay at till or give to waitress

Warper · 21-11-2013 01:28PM #1

When eating out in cafes/restaurants i always leave my tip at the checkout. Do you leave tip at checkout or give to waitress. Concerned that sometimes in small cafes the person at the checkout if the manager/owner and might just add to the general takings for the day. The drama

Bog Standard User · 21-11-2013 01:31PM

Warper wrote: »

When eating out in cafes/restaurants i always leave my tip at the checkout. Do you leave tip at checkout or give to waitress. Concerned that sometimes in small cafes the person at the checkout if the manager/owner and might just add to the general takings for the day. The drama

i always hand my tip to the waiter/waitress... paying at the til means the manager more than likely gets it

Mint Aero · 21-11-2013 01:32PM

I don't give em any tips.

April O Neill II · 21-11-2013 01:32PM

On the table.

shruikan2553 · 21-11-2013 01:35PM

In one place I worked all tips were put together and divided out between everyone. If you leave it on the table or gave it at the till it went to the same place.

Artful_Badger · 21-11-2013 01:36PM

Dont get the obsession with tipping. All you're doing is giving money away. Why not give it to charity or people who actually need it.

Hannibal Smith · 21-11-2013 01:38PM

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Dont get the obsession with tipping. All you're doing is giving money away. Why not give it to charity or people who actually need it.

The waitress might need it...and she may just have worked that little harder to make your day a little better.

wazky · 21-11-2013 01:40PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

The waitress might need it...and she may just have worked that little harder to make your day a little better.

Do you tip shopkeepers, road sweepers, etc for doing their jobs too?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 21-11-2013 01:41PM

I always give tips to the waitress.

"You should wear a lower cut top."

"There's no need for tights today love."

"You'd be more comfortable without that bra sweetie."

This is before I get blind drunk towards the end of the night.

I then start giving her tips on how to make it big in the States and how my new invention will make me a millionaire while holding her hand so she can't get away.

I know once I leave I will have enriched her life many fold with my pearls of wisdom ringing in her ear.

Boombastic · 21-11-2013 01:42PM

I rarely leave tips. I have seen it behind te scenes when I was younger. The longest staff there got the biggest split, with the person who actually served the food got nothing, turned me right off tipping. Places charge enough for stuff without overpaying...

lahalane · 21-11-2013 01:43PM

I havent been in a cafe for ages but do we tip now? And if so...why?

Artful_Badger · 21-11-2013 01:44PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

The waitress might need it...and she may just have worked that little harder to make your day a little better.

Unlike every other person in every other job who you interact with regularly ? Maybe she needs it maybe she doesnt, maybe the cashier in Tesco's needs it, maybe the petrol station attendant needs it.

Why are serving staff the only people who are seen to go above and belong for doing their job, the only ones who may need some extra cash or the only ones who deserve to be paid to smile at ya ?

If people want to hand away money to a select group of workers then thats their business. But personally I dont get it. Now I'm out of here before Madsl arrives to dig the trenches and defend all things American.

Boombastic · 21-11-2013 01:45PM

lahalane wrote: »

I havent been in a cafe for ages but do we tip now? And if so...why?

Celtic tiger hangover and some like to pretend they are Americans because they think it makes them look sophisticated......that is all

touts · 21-11-2013 01:45PM

The tip culture is a bit of a joke to be honest. If you go in to buy a car you don't slip the sales man a couple of grand extra. If you do your weekly grocery shop you dont give a tenner to the cashier. People should be paid a fair wage by their employer and their employer should in turn charge a fair price to the customer.

However we are where we are so I generally leave the tip on the table.

Hannibal Smith · 21-11-2013 01:46PM

wazky wrote: »

Do you tip shopkeepers, road sweepers, etc for doing their jobs too?

Do you understand the difference between the service provider I was referring to and the two you introduced?

shruikan2553 · 21-11-2013 01:49PM

Uh oh, expected this to turn into a tipping debate. It is only a matter of time before the people who don't tip are called cheap and how doing their job deserves extra wages.

Hannibal Smith · 21-11-2013 01:51PM

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Unlike every other person in every other job who you interact with regularly ? Maybe she needs it maybe she doesnt, maybe the cashier in Tesco's needs it, maybe the petrol station attendant needs it.

Why are serving staff the only people who are seen to go above and belong for doing their job, the only ones who may need some extra cash or the only ones who deserve to be paid to smile at ya ?

If people want to hand away money to a select group of workers then thats their business. But personally I dont get it. Now I'm out of here before Madsl arrives to dig the trenches and defend all things American.

Haahaa...people want to try and break common courtesy down to nonsensical semantics that's their business too. But someone has waited on you and served you. I would never be arrogant and stingy enough to walk out without offering an extra thanks.

But the thread was asking where to leave the tip, not whether to tip at all

Call Me Jimmy · 21-11-2013 02:00PM

But you are arrogant enough to overlook all the other places that you have been served by someone without tipping. If logic gets anywhere near a tipping debate it's over!

Boombastic · 21-11-2013 02:02PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Haahaa...people want to try and break common courtesy down to nonsensical semantics that's their business too. But someone has waited on you and served you. I would never be arrogant and stingy enough to walk out without offering an extra thanks.

But the thread was asking where to leave the tip, not whether to tip at all

How is breaking common courtesy? They are being paid to do a job?

Gannicus · 21-11-2013 02:15PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

I don't give em any tips.

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Dont get the obsession with tipping. All you're doing is giving money away. Why not give it to charity or people who actually need it.

I leave it in my wallet.

On the rare occassion I tip (table of more than ten people or I get a handy under the table off her) I leave it with the cheque

Boombastic · 21-11-2013 02:17PM

Big Steve wrote: »

I leave it in my wallet.

On the rare occassion I tip (table of more than ten people or I get a handy under the table off her) I leave it with the cheque

stingy! would you not leave you house and car keys with them aswell

tacofries · 21-11-2013 02:19PM

all i know is in a hotel always leave it on the table if you cant give it to the waiter/ess directly... Money at the till can go missing very easy whereas waiters usually keep an eye on their tables

RichardoKhan · 21-11-2013 02:20PM

wazky wrote: »

Do you tip shopkeepers, road sweepers, etc for doing their jobs too?

When you realise how much DCC road sweepers are on with O/T & seniority.
They should be tipping us............

hotbabe1992 · 21-11-2013 02:21PM

On the table.

No,No,No...Wrong ,wrong ,wrong..If you leave it on a table whos to stop someone from taking it,like another customer or passerby to a toilet?

Always give to the waitress,not the manager as he could just take it for himself..

touts · 21-11-2013 02:22PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Haahaa...people want to try and break common courtesy down to nonsensical semantics that's their business too. But someone has waited on you and served you. I would never be arrogant and stingy enough to walk out without offering an extra thanks.

But the thread was asking where to leave the tip, not whether to tip at all

I think you will find it is common practice not common courtesy. If it was common courtesy we would tip everyone we interacted with.

touts · 21-11-2013 02:25PM

hotbabe1992 wrote: »

No,No,No...Wrong ,wrong ,wrong..If you leave it on a table whos to stop someone from taking it,like another customer or passerby to a toilet?

Always give to the waitress,not the manager as he could just take it for himself..

So at a busy time of the day (say lunch) when the waitress is off serving other tables, not only am I expected to leave her some extra money I am expected to wait until it is convenient for her to have me approach her and discreetly slip it to her. This comes back to the employer should pay a fair wage and there would be no dispute about the wrong person getting the money.

wazky · 21-11-2013 02:25PM

Hannibal Smith wrote: »

Do you understand the difference between the service provider I was referring to and the two you introduced?

Waiter/Waitress job is to serve food and be courteous to the customer, why would you tip them on doing their job description?

Sleepy · 21-11-2013 02:31PM

Rarely tip any more. I never saw the point in it and only got into the habit of it from going out with a girl who'd get into a huff if I didn't tip a waitress because she'd once worked as one in college and couldn't understand why I didn't think a waitress deserved to out-earn a shelf-stacker in a supermarket.

I'd occasionally tip a barman if the place is busy as I've found it usually gets them to remember you and serve you ahead of others at the bar later in the night.

Gannicus · 21-11-2013 02:57PM

Boombastic wrote: »

stingy! would you not leave you house and car keys with them aswell

Not for just a handy I wouldn't. She'd wanna be a special kinda waitress for anymore than a tawdry €5 tip.

poundapunnet · 21-11-2013 03:00PM

wazky wrote: »

Waiter/Waitress job is to serve food and be courteous to the customer, why would you tip them on doing their job description?

Ugh, I'm writing a new law: everyone has to work in a restaurant before they can eat in one. I've had a lot of jobs, most of them waitressing, and the majority of the job is actually putting up with people's **** to be honest, being courteous to a lot of the bollixes you get in can actually be a superhuman task and deserves much more than the minimum wage and unwaged overtime that's very very common in the industry. It's nice to be tipped for that.

Gannicus · 21-11-2013 03:00PM

wazky wrote: »

Waiter/Waitress job is to serve food and be courteous to the customer, why would you tip them on doing their job description?

I don't like tipping either but people would be singing a different tune if they started getting told you're not getting your christmas bonus for coming an doing your job all year.

Leaving tips in cafes - pay at till or give to waitress

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