― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Exactly. Wishing and complaining isn't going to change it.
I still want to know why you described tips as taxes. Are you a freeper?
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
What's the protocol?
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimn (jimnaseum), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Surmounter (rra12...) (webmail), January 20th, 2007. (rra123)
just want to make sure the utter absurdity of this statement isn't lost. a few drinks after one week would call for a tip of around 3 bucks as minimally appropriate. that's all the dude would have to spend. 3 bucks a week. and he's complaining that this 3 bucks will "break the bank." seriously, man, examine what's going on with your life that lead to these circumstances. if 3 dollars is too much for you to afford, and you're still spending your money in bars, you need a therapist.
― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimn (jimnaseum), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimn (jimnaseum), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
i think the tipping, for me, is the straw that breaks the camel's back
it's like jesus, i have to pay 5 dollars for a 99 cent beer and then a dollar on top of it to kiss the bartender's ass who's trying too hard to be cool serving me my drink.
i like the tab actually. a lot.
― Surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry! I'm a Brit, oi don't belong 'ere m'lud. (I went to Yo Sushi today and didn't tip)
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
that's why i don't drink beer in bars (the price of the beer, not the dollar tip). i know it's silly because it's about the location and not the beer itself, but i'd rather at least order a drink with more ingredients than i have in the fridge at home.
― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
i also hardly ever sit at the bar, which maybe i should try. get to know the bartenders a bit more. get a bit o' empathy goin on.
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
drinks are pretty expensive and staff is reportedly better-paid upfront than in the usa. so no tipping, i was told. but: some places (mainly restaurants, it seems) add a 10% surcharge on holidays (which is fine, i guess), or sundays (which is less fine), or saturdays (which is ridiculous).
also, service wasn't particularly great, which may or may not have something to do with the lack of tipping. yet aussie bartenders/servers are all over clearing away yr empties--it's more a struggle to get more. weird.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Based on a few months in Australia, I got the impression that they take their weekends rather more (i.e. less) seriously than in the UK or US. Some things even -- gasp! -- shut. The surcharge is related to the fact that restaurant probably pays its staff time-and-a-half or double time over the weekend.
Also, re: this thread and the many, many others. Why do people find tipping so confusing and infuriating? Americans and Brits drive on different sides of the road, and no one gets confused or infuriated by that. And NO ONE feels the need to defend their country's choice. It's merely a convention. Things be different in different parts of the world. Find out how tipping works, fit in (or don't), and forget about it.
― caek (caek), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Buy a whole bottle, mix, serve, and drink it in your home. Or in the park or on the train, perhaps. Either way, then you won't have to put out the extra money for overhead like the edifice, cost of operations, and service.
it's not my job to subsidize theirs.
Yes, it is. Or more accurately, it is your obligation under this country's tipping system. Otherwise you are guilty of the offense of theft of services AND the more serious crime of aggrivated douchebaggery.
In other words (polyphonic's):
If you don't like tipping, don't drink in bars. Period.
― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― vita susicivus (blueski), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― surmounter (rra123), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
If only there could be a similar revolution against tipping.
― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
US pints are smaller.
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
i think we should discuss every subject under the sun on this thread.
― vita susicivus (blueski), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Totally. I recognise that my dollar tips don't have the same value as 20 years ago and will easily leave more depending on the situation.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:29 (five months ago) link
Lately I'll sometimes leave a $2 tip on a $4 coffee just b/c like whatever man
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 16:51 (five months ago) link
who cares
there’s really no such thing as overtipping
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:01 (five months ago) link
otm
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:01 (five months ago) link
otm!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:02 (five months ago) link
Not OTM in the slightest
I believe food service workers deserve a living wage and I will tip generously in support of that, but not if you pull racist bullshit on me.
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:53 (five months ago) link
ok I meant idiots being like “did I tip too much for my shoeshine” or whatever the fuck
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:06 (five months ago) link
Not OTM in the slightestI believe food service workers deserve a living wage and I will tip generously in support of that, but not if you pull racist bullshit on me.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:24 (five months ago) link
I don't eat in restaurants anymore but I still tip when picking up to-go orders. Less than 20%, though; my order is usually about $30 and I drop $5 in the jar. The other day I added a drink to the order when I arrived, so I tipped $8 on a $32 bill.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 01:32 (five months ago) link
at the diner down the block i'll get coffee and eggs/toast/whatever and it'll come to like $10.75, i'll usually leave a $5 tip bc I just cant fathom leaving less than that for a meal that was brought to my table by a server, coffee refills, etc. then i'll always get fraud alert emails from my credit card company asking "DID YOU LEAVE A 45% TIP AT JOE'S DINER, PLEASE CONFIRM??" i know that stuff is all automated but i still want to call them and be like "please let your computer known that a $5 tip at a restaurant should never be considered suspiciously high"
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:01 (five months ago) link
there's a place in america where coffee eggs and toast still costs $10.75???
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:12 (five months ago) link
in Seattle I'm pretty sure that's at least $90
any time I see a sandwich in a deli that's only $5-$6 I immediately assume the whole restaurant is a drug trafficking front and leave
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:16 (five months ago) link
and then go out back to get drugs
Here in Buffalo that $90 could get you a house, with enough change leftover for coffee eggs & toast at the diner (depending on the tip)
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:21 (five months ago) link
That does seem a little cheap. At the two diner/cafe places near me breakfast (eggs, meat, bread, potatoes) is about $15-17 per person, depending on what exactly you get.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:38 (five months ago) link
sorry for my insensitive reply, DJP, it wasn’t at all cool for me to be all “no, but what I meant was” in response to your post
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 02:39 (five months ago) link
it took me a while to parse the recent posts but it is true, undertipping is OK if the servers/establishment are racist/assholes/etc, what I was agreeing with was that after a pleasant experience there is really no limit to a tip
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 03:12 (five months ago) link
Having just spent a week there, I can confirm this is true. :D
Also currently fighting off tears after looking at my credit-card bill because of the very strong dollar compared to pounds these days ;_;
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 06:37 (five months ago) link
tbf I did Kool-Aid Man into the thread with that post
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:26 (five months ago) link
I am going to be brave and not tip 20% when I get my hair done tonight because apparently I've been overtripping here and now I know why the nail salon girls are always so nice to me. I thought we were buds! :/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:41 (five months ago) link
When you're used to tipping a certain way it feels so weird and wrong not to.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 11:42 (five months ago) link
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, April 30, 2024 11:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yeah fuck all these stingy bastards!!
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:12 (five months ago) link
it's hard for me to imagine coffee, eggs, and toast being much more than like $12 maybe
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 21:16 (five months ago) link
Have you been to a joint called California
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 21:16 (five months ago) link
i just checked and a plate of scrambled eggs, bacon, and pancakes at the Denny's near me is 7.99
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 21:18 (five months ago) link
Vomit
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:03 (five months ago) link
7.99 but then coffee is another $3.50
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:08 (five months ago) link
right which is 74 cents more than 10.75
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 22:30 (five months ago) link
and that's WITH bacon
for 10.75 in Philly you can get a pretty decent hoagie and a side of fries at the local Papi store.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:16 (five months ago) link