Half Service Restaurant: How Much To Tip?

[BJ@LW&WW]

Say you go to a restaurant where you order at the counter and get your own drinks. A 'waitress' brings the food to your table with utensils as well as bus it after you've left. How much, if any, would you tip at a place like this and how much do you normally tip at a full service place?

Same question for a buffet style restaurant where wait service takes your dirty dishes and refills drinks.


Also, has anyone worked at a partial service place like these? Are you legally considered a tipped position and do you get less than minimum wage?

 

[Sweet_Leaf]

Oh look another tipping thread.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

Lol yea =/

lets not let this disintegrate into a threat about how the tipping system in america is stupid, broken/how much of an asshole a non-tipper is lol.

 

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[lakersfan45]

Half service half tip

do u mean like chipotle and panera? I dont tip at those

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

Not like chipotle. I can't remember what the service is like at panera.

 

[odog]

For half service, is probably give half what I'd normally tip.

When I drove a tour bus I used to take my passengers to a place where you order at the front counter, get your drinks yourself and they call your number when your food is ready. You get it yourself. They did have an area where they had table service but we didn't sit there.

The girl at the front counter was annoyed the the Brits and Aussies on my bus didn't tip so she would ask me to tell them to tip in advance. When that didn't work as well as she wanted she decided to start circling the part of the receipt where it said "gratuity not included" right before handing it to them. I thought that was going too far so I started telling them in advance that they didn't have to tip if they didnt want to. I would leave a tip, but I'd tell her that I couldn't force them to tip. If there is no table service I don't think you should have to.

 

[Thai Domi]

 

[HugeFanSmallBod]

Sounds the same to me unless they tell you not to tip. Most likely a place like that all tips are split. I don't really see a difference you just gave your order to someone other than your server.

 

[bandicoot]

I work at McAlister's deli and we actually tell the customers to not tip. The people who work up front make at least minimum wage, so they're actually not allowed to take the tips...

Even though they do.

 

[WARRIOR POET]

Say you go to a restaurant where you order at the counter and get your own drinks. A 'waitress' brings the food to your table with utensils as well as bus it after you've left. How much, if any, would you tip at a place like this and how much do you normally tip at a full service place?

Same question for a buffet style restaurant where wait service takes your dirty dishes and refills drinks.


Also, has anyone worked at a partial service place like these? Are you legally considered a tipped position and do you get less than minimum wage?

is she hot?

 

[CombatCyborg]

Half. Slightly more or slightly less depending if the servers actually do anything taxing.

 

[jefferz]

 

[Bukowski82]

It literally makes me cringe that some people don't tip 20%. If that's you, here's a little FYI... You embarrass everyone that's with you if you're out in a group. If you don't have the money to tip, you don't have the money to be eating/drinking out, or ordering in.

 

[JuliaB4GSP]

I work at McAlister's deli and we actually tell the customers to not tip. The people who work up front make at least minimum wage, so they're actually not allowed to take the tips...

Even though they do.

Not allowed to take the tips as in a corporate policy? I hope you don't think because they make minimum wage they're not 'legally' entitled to the money they're given by customers for a service provided.

 

[bandicoot]

Not allowed to take the tips as in a corporate policy? I hope you don't think because they make minimum wage they're not 'legally' entitled to the money they're given by customers for a service provided.

It's company policy.

 

[TheQu**]

Last time I was at a Chick-fil-a I didn't tip.

And they'll bring the food to your table and refill your drink and take your tray when you're done.

 

[dc007]

Honestly, I probably wouldn't tip t all in that scenario and I am a over-tipper in most situations that deserve it.

 

[Sweet_Leaf]

It literally makes me cringe that some people don't tip 20%. If that's you, here's a little FYI... You embarrass everyone that's with you if you're out in a group. If you don't have the money to tip, you don't have the money to be eating/drinking out, or ordering in.

Lol fuck off with that bullshit line of thinking. If you bust your ass at work all week and want to go out for a meal you earned and paid for you have no responsibility to subsidize someone else's wage.

 

[bandicoot]

Lol fuck off with that bullshit line of thinking. If you bust your ass at work all week and want to go out for a meal you earned and paid for you have no responsibility to subsidize someone else's wage.

You'd feel differently if you were a server.