i tip if im sitting...

fast food tipping is some lame tho like tipping at five guys?

its a decent burger but yea id rather go out and eat for specicals weedends and eat at home and tip myself jahurd?

inb4 they don't come back for 20 minutes or give you to another server.

Do you have any idea how expensive it is to rent a big building in a desirable location you *******? And on top of that you need to pay the staff and pay for taxes and utilities. How much do you think is left of that $15+ after those things have been covered?

only person i tip is the person who cuts my hair. i tip because they actually deliver a product of value as opposed to me spending 20 bucks to fill up a glass of water twice during my meallmao you're so chicken shyt you literally GIVE away your money out of social expectation. don't try to spin it around and learn to stfu about being "brave" when you couldn't even not give waiters money let alone say anything to them about not tipping. imagine quivering like a pussy cause you don't want waiters to spit in your food. fukking lmao.

stop trying to act tough bruh. you're basically one step above your high school bully giving you a wedgie and taking your lunch money. couldn't be anymore of a bitch than that lol

"standard protocol" aka you're a bitch who has to follow social norms out of fear of retribution.

I tip like 18-20%. I worked in this industry for like 9 years, and I can say that a lot of people I worked with are just super entitled. Not saying their service is bad, but like $50 on a $275 check is fine.

If I frequent a place, its like a rounded up 20% ($60 on 275)

Obviously great and poor service is different.

It is kinda fukked up that restaurants don't pay for their employees wages, but there are places that are starting to adopt no tip policies, and no one who works at a really good place would ever work there because they simply make way more than what a restaurant calls a "Livable Wage." So thats kinda fukked up too.

Barber gets a $5 from me - my London barber is 13 Pounds and my NYC Barber charges $22.

I don't do it to be tough brah. I do it because I rather just have more money, have busted my ass working min wage before, and out of principle I don't want to encourage most waiters/waitresses drug habits/alcohol abuse.

It's not fair to people who work minimum wage when the ******* servers get paid 50k a year when they bust their ass 10x harder

I mean here in Canada servers get min wage, which is $15 cad. So no thanks.
The old grandpa at walmart also gets minimum wage and nobody tips him.

I used to cook in a fast food restaurant when min wage was $10 and I got 10.
I also worked at a restaurant as a server for 2 months. I got min wage + tips which was nice but the work wasn't harder at all lol.

I don't know what's so different from them. But I'm sure if I was in the US, I'd tip cause they don't get paid minimum wage, which is understandable.


Edit: then again, I don't eat out much at all.

Imagine being so much of a broke bish that you have to tell yourself chit like this to cope.

We go out to eat maybe 4-5× per month, and the extra expense (tip included) is well worth it to not have to deal with cooking/cleanup/etc when the wife and I just want a nice meal without the hassle.

So many people on this forum say things like this, and that if they want more money, then they should get a better job blah blah, but its like I did this job for years, and the % of people who tip below 15% is like 1%, and you saw it coming from a mile away. The people who don't tip were like a blip on the radar and it was like oh he didn't tip i get annoyed for 5 seconds, but this table left $200 on a $1000 tip the other table left $150 on $600, and I had 9 other tables in the night. I'll continue to make that $300-$400 a night with or without your money and collect the 100k/year lol. The lone person not tipping to make a stand literally doesn't influence anyone because tipping is just what it is here.

Its the system we live in, and if you think there aren't people in offices who work even 20% as hard as waiters who make 2-10x the money, then you're insane. People not getting paid appropriately or more than they should is what America is about and you not tipping doesn't budge that fact in the slightest bit.

Your mind just goes straight to the service employees because they are the easy target, and your garbage budgeting and money management skills bring you to the bar or restaurant you shouldn't be eating at on a frequent basis.

Plus waiting and bartending is harder than a lot of people think. Most miscers against tipping are autists who wouldn't last a day lol.

The biggest problem is that this perpetuates a broken system. It's essentially restaurant owners offloading more of their costs than necessary on to their patrons; servers aren't athletes who are paid based on direct performance and merit, and this shouldn't be the case. The service industry simply does not work like this; restaurants and the like are the outliers, and social pressure shouldn't be the tool used to bridge the gap between greedy owners, and unacceptable working conditions for workers.

Thankfully, more restaurants are acting against this nonsense, and are removing tipping. One of the bigger restaurateurs has banned tipping from all, or nearly all, his restaurants - Daniel Meyer


EDIT - I read some more of people's responses, and I'm convinced the majority of you are fuking idiots.

Not all states and provinces pay below minimum wage for servers/those in the service industry - this is some nonsense that is continued by restaurant owners and servers, as it benefits both. Many servers don't report tips come tax season, and I personally know a girl who can easily make 300+ on top of her above min-wage for no more than 5 hours of work. Stop thinking they are starving, poor helpless souls - a good chunk do the jobforthe tips.

If you go to bum-fuk middle of no where, I can completely understand tips being a means of survival, but don't fuking kid yourselves and eat up the sob stories.

And if you're going to use your stupid logic to support tipping, be consistent, and start tipping all the other service industry folks who sometimes have it even worse. Misc logic at its finest.

Well we ended up at a Peruvian Restauraunt - never been there (semi-healthy fast food. Stay away from the mayo based sauces cuz once you start, there ain’t no stopping. It was fuking delcious - everything was good). Ordering and payment was at the register BEFORE we got our food. So I was thinking lol, no tips involved.

Well 2 minutes after payment, food is rushed to our table by this girl. I was like ok, no tip or minimal if any.

She kept coming every 10 minutes asking if we needed anything and finally we gave in and asked for napkins and to go boxes. Ended up tipping her 10% on a $45 bill. My girl was mildly upset that I tipped her atall.

Almost felt forced to tip cuz we ordered and paid at the register - was expecting a number to be called and we’d go get our food. But oh well. Maybe next time I can be a bich and do the experiment lol

yea i am. i hate that they are really pushing takeout tipping though.

Lmao, you're the one coping.

I don't pay tips. Therefore I have more money. Therefore, I am in a better financial situation than you.

Imagine the amount of cope on your end as you literally give away your hard earned money out of social expectation. What a **** LOL