What if you don't tip a waiter/server?
As a server, nothing grinds my gears more than not receiving a tip. I do not get a paycheck at all, because the taxes I have to pay on my tips are taken directly out of my hourly pay. So, tips are my only source of income. By not leaving a tip for your server, you are also not leaving money for other people the restaurant. Where I work, I am required to pay up to 5% of my daily sales. That 5% is divided between the hosts (people who seat you), the people who clean your tables, as well as the bartenders (for making my tables alcoholic drinks) So, by not leaving a tip, you are also making your server lose more money. Working a single shift, I usually have food and beverage sales of $500, with a tip average of $90. Since 5% of 500 is 25, $25.00 is taken out of MY tips and given to those people mentioned above, so I only go home with $65. If you don't leave me a tip, I could go home with a lot less, because the money I owe is not on my tips, but on my total sales (food and drink you order) By the way, yes. You do hurt our feelings. My coworkers are also college students, mothers, fathers, single parents....also paying 1000s of dollars for school / rent / bills / paying for their kids. Not all of us live at home still!!! If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat out. Go to BK or the supermarket and make yourself dinner. How do you expect us to pay for school, our homes, or our children, if you can't give us a tip?? I myself am I college student, struggling to pay out of state tuition. I'm up to my eyeballs in debt and this is the best job I can get without a college degree! Unless your server downright sucks, at the very least leave them 10%. Thanks!!
Does a bus boy get paid the same as a waiter?
Our buss boys receive from 8 to 13 hourly plus the dollar amount net sales of each server.And the server makes their minimum 2-3 hourly plus their tips.Say the servers sales are 584.23 you would receive 5.84 I would says it comes out being pretty fair.If you don't agree with your restaurant but like ours Chili's is always happy to give new happy faces a chance!! :)
Why do American waiters expect a tip? In the UK you don't have to give a tip, and in most restaurants a tip isn’t even customary.
This question has probably been asked about 10,000 times on here already, but I’ll try to answer it as simply and clearly for you as possible.THIS ISN’T THE UK, WE DON’T HAVE A QUEEN, WE DRIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD, AND WE TIP OUR SERVERS.American waiters expect a tip because that’s how things work here. You tip your waiter, that’s just how it works. Waiters in America take the job BECAUSE they know they’re going to get tips. Take the tips away, and your server has pretty much no incentive to do an awesome job. Why? Because the employer would have to pay their servers about $40 an hour in “nice” restaurants (I’m not talking about super high end fine dining, just normal white tablecloth restaurants), and employers are NOT going to do that. If they did, then yes, servers would still come to work and do a great job, but owners aren’t going to do that. Yes, servers make about $30–40 per hour on an average night, and cash tips are largely undisclosed. If you don’t tip your server, they just went from making $40 an hour to making $4 an hour. NO ONE WOULD WAIT ON YOU FOR $4 AN HOUR!!!HERE’S WHY IT ACTUALLY BENEFITS YOU (the customer) FOR RESTAURANTEURS TO PAY THEIR SERVERS “SERVER MINIMUM WAGE” (which is typically half of normal minimum wage or less):By paying their servers less money per hour (practically nothing really), they can afford to keep a larger staff on in case it does get busy. If the night goes on and it looks like they’re not going to need everyone, they will start making “cuts” (letting servers go home if they want to). If it does get busy, there will be enough servers on to give everyone awesome service. If it’s slow, it didn’t really cost the restaurant much to have the extra servers on, so your meal isn’t going to cost you anything extra.The following applies to everyone, not just the OP: If you’re not from our country, please learn the customs and apply them to your visit (or stay) here. Please don’t be one of the cheap people that keep someone from earning what they deserve because it’s not done that way where you come from. If you are from this country, get with the program and stop being cheap. You’re most likely hurting someone’s family by not tipping appropriately according to US standards.
Is it okay to give a waiter a 1 penny tip?
I'm a waiter, and I'm adamant about the importance of leaving 20% tips, never leaving 10% (because a waiter can't survive on that, which many people don't understand). I will fight tooth and nail to express to people the importance of good tipping, how even a good waiter can be overwhelmed by more than 5 or 8 tables, how people have to not be so selfish and understand that a tip is part of the price of the meal etc; HOWEVER - this is a big however - if a server provides exceptionally poor service, like 15 minutes for drinks, especially if he/she is managing to handle the other tables efficiently, then... Then, I don't know. I mean, I want to say leave the penny, but I think you should only do that if you're absolutely furious. And if the waiter was truly miserable. From the wait and the fact that other servers brought your food, I am considering that the server may have been handling more tables than he was supposed to or than is normal. In other words, he was probably overworking himself to make up for the restaurant's faults. That happens to me often enough, and, by default, I cannot serve everybody efficiently (better service than no service at all, but even still) and then I get awful tips. I can't honestly expect people to be aware of that sort of situation though, and, to be fair, the other side of the coin is that the patron is receiving bad service regardless, which means that a good tip is still a charity. Serving, after all, isn't about hard work. The less hard your server works, the better tips he'll get (unfortunately, that's oddly true). Bottom line: There's a saying, "Don't tip an ugly stripper." She'll quit stripping and do something else with her life. Starving her is your good deed for the day. The same principal works for servers. If the server himself is actually a very bad server, then a penny or a zero tip can be used to send a message; however, I always suggest that people try and analyze the situation. If it is taking forever for the service, but you see the server running around with food in his hands, taking care of multiple tables and not leaning up against a pillar, chances are he's doing the best he can and you, by not tipping, are taking the bad service out on the server instead of the restaurant.
Do you have to tip a waiter if they have been rude to you the whole time?
US AnswerNo as tipping is voluntary in the US.However I have a huge problem with your phrase “the whole time.” So you were just sitting there and suffering through the entire meal? Why would you do that? This is a job for management.Calmly explain the situation and politely ask for a different waiter. 99% of restaurants will immediately accommodate you and many may comp you as well. If for some reason they don’t, just pay for what you have already received and leave.Here is a weird story that happened to me!Out of Control ProfanityI was traveling on business in the US and dining alone. I was in a very nice mid-level American style restaurant that was quite busy. It was not a chain.I think the best way to say it is my waiter had an extremely foul mouth! It seemed like every other sentence had profanity in it. Unless you are in some sleazy dive bar, in America this is very unusual. He wasn’t rude directly to me but his mouth was just too much!I asked to see the manager, explained the situation, and requested a different waiter. He apologized and instantly accommodated me.What happened next was quite a surprise. He fired the waiter on the spot. He did this on the dining room floor on front of me and several other customers! To me, this was extremely unprofessional. It turned out that the waiter had been warned twice about this exact same issue!
Should you leave a tip for the waiters if the service charge is added to the restaurant bill already?
A service charge usually means you had something extra done, like off the menu special dietary foods made or seating requirements, but I assume you take it to mean a gratuity or tip added on to the bill.Most restaurants will only add on that OPTIONAL tip/gratuity for larger parties because at the end of a meal it saves the customers the hassle of having to figure out each persons share of the tip (or forgetting it completely).If the SUGGESTED gratuity is already included then no you do not have to add on more. However you can elect to add on or take off that gratuity because it is optional. If the service or food was lousy you can take it off completely and don’t worry, they will not hose you down with their AR-15. On the other hand if you felt the service and food was above what you expected you can add on to that tip.With me I will usually just add the tip on the credit card because it is easy (and the tip put on the credit card is usually credited to the server) but if I felt the server did their job really well I will usually leave an additional cash tip that they can put in their pocket rather than wait to get paid at the end of their shift or on their paycheck.It won’t be as much as the primary tip that was paid on the credit card but it will usually be enough to put a smile on their face and encourage them to keep doing their job better and hope the next time I am in they get to serve me.
Why do waiters & waitresses think they deserve tips for doing their jobs???
I'm with you 100%. Additionally, servers aren't obligated to pay their fair share in taxes, either. They are allowed to pay 9%, but scream bloody murder if their tip is less than 15%. I think ALL tipping should be eliminated and servers should be paid at LEAST minimum wage. The same with all other service jobs, most of which already get over minimum wage (hair-dressers, i.e.). Tipping has become an obcession, and it is promoted primarily by people who receive tips, are related to people who receive tips, or are very friendly with people who receive tips. This whole system stinks, and is akin to begging. Additional: When a steak cost $3.50, the acceptable tip was 10%. Now people are expecting a 20% tip on the same steak dinner which now costs about $35. Come on, how does this make ANY sense to anyone. As the cost of living goes up, we'll be paying $60 for the steak, and will they want us to tip 30%. At that thinking and rate, eventually our dear waitress will get equal in tip to what we spend for food. This system NEEDS to change.