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Half Service Restaurant: How Much To Tip?

Im in the service industry, so I tip 20-25% anywhere I eat.
 
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.

Spoken like a true Cheapskate. That's just embarrassing, man. So, do you not tip at all? Or just a little...
 
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.

I usually tip 20% but if you give me shitty service and let me die of thirst and hunger then I may give you 5%. And if you ask I'll tell you that you suck to your face.

Come at me bro.
 
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.

LMAO

Servers walk food from the kitchen to your table.

A monkey can do that.
 
I usually tip 20% but if you give me shitty service and let me die of thirst and hunger then I may give you 5%. And if you ask I'll tell you that you suck to your face.

Come at me bro.

Ok, if someone gives you completely terrible service and you return the favor by giving 5%... That doesn't bother me as long as your expectations aren't unreasonable. I certainly wouldn't do it, but I can see your point.

But telling someone they suck? That's just low class, man. It's also very awkward... Would you do that to a server if you were out on a date? I'm sure the girl with you wouldn't be embarrassed at all...:rolleyes:
 
I think servers are over rated. Won't be surprised if they become more and more phased out with computers. Fine dining can keep them, I see no need for less fancy places to keep them. It's annoying I can't get my own drink to be honest.
 
Ok, if someone gives you completely terrible service and you return the favor by giving 5%... That doesn't bother me as long as your expectations aren't unreasonable. I certainly wouldn't do it, but I can see your point.

But telling someone they suck? That's just low class, man. It's also very awkward... Would you do that to a server if you were out on a date? I'm sure the girl with you wouldn't be embarrassed at all...:rolleyes:

I've told servers they were shitty with my wife and kids at the table. I'm am never unreasonable. But if my drink is empty fill that shit up. If I tell you to bring my kid's meals first don't bring mine first then go back to the kitchen then bring the kids food.

If I order chips and dip, bring it first not with the meal. I forgot does not cut it. I want my food warm when it comes to the table. Doesn't need to be piping hot but room tempeture food does not cut it.

What?
 
I've told servers they were shitty with my wife and kids at the table. I'm am never unreasonable. But if my drink is empty fill that shit up. If I tell you to bring my kid's meals first don't bring mine first then go back to the kitchen then bring the kids food.

If I order chips and dip, bring it first not with the meal. I forgot does not cut it. I want my food warm when it comes to the table. Doesn't need to be piping hot but room tempeture food does not cut it.

What?

So essentially, everything has to be perfect or you feel comfortable humiliating another human being in front of your wife, kids and whoever else is around? You sound like a very angry, miserable person tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if those expectations were an indication of a much larger problem dealing with a need to control.

Lighten up, man. Jesus. Not everything is going to be perfect when you go out to eat. That's simply the nature of the game. People make mistakes, things happen, etc. Be nice, be gracious, tip well and enjoy the good and not so good of the experience.

I've never been in the service industry, but it's posts like this that make me very glad that I wasn't.
 
I wouldn't feel a need to tell someone they suck. But I wouldn't feel bad at all about not tipping if they screw up. I mean, that's the deal. They get paid to serve. They don't serve well, they don't get paid. That's the business they are in. If they aren't going to let me do it myself, and are going to demand payment, then they better do it well.

I usually always tip 20% or so, just for context.
 
lol, a Monkey could do it? You seem like a very nice person.

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I wouldn't feel a need to tell someone they suck. But I wouldn't feel bad at all about not tipping if they screw up. I mean, that's the deal. They get paid to serve. They don't serve well, they don't get paid. That's the business they are in. If they aren't going to let me do it myself, and are going to demand payment, then they better do it well.

I usually always tip 20% or so, just for context.

It's good to know you never have bad days or screw up at your job. Being perfect must be pretty amazing. I'm assuming if you did screw up a little, you'd still want to get paid though?
 
I don't know what the hell to do at these places.

You pay right up front, and they have a "tip" column on the ticket.
Well I don't know how the service throughout my meal has been, I just frickin got here. You are bringing me food and I'm fetching my drink.

I have a place around here that'll bring you another beer or whatever to your table, and not bring another check. You just go throw a fiver at the front desk on your way out, if you remember to. Hard to remember, I am drinking beer after all.

So yeah, no advice here. These places are weird.
 
It's good to know you never have bad days or screw up at your job. Being perfect must be pretty amazing. I'm assuming if you did screw up a little, you'd still want to get paid though?

Not if I was in a business where your pay is based on how you perform.

And like I said, I usually tip. Only maybe 2-3 times I haven't. It's a bullshit idea that I can't be allowed to get my own drink, but then have a server who never comes around, and never even asks about the food, yet still wants me to pay them. It's obnoxious.
 
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