tipping

service charges are rarely included

really? feels increasingly common

maybe (not in my experience). it's definitely still the exception though.

so what's the tipping policy across the pond

10-15% in restaurants unless a service charge is included, round up in taxis, and no tips anywhere else (unless i'm forgetting something)

that infographic looks/sounds like it was ripped off of some 15-year-old source, hence all the stuff about "dollars are appreciated"

maybe they mean aesthetically

dollars haven't appreciated, they've depreciated thanks to the fed's gutless fiscal policies!!!!!

"yes your dollar is very pretty, can i please have some actual money instead thank you"

you know who has pretty but worthless money, is Ghana

http://i.pbase.com/u20/bmcmorrow/upload/36503710.ghana.jpg

linked because lol hueg

FORRRBIDDEN!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1089&bih=652&q=ghana%20currency&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

try this search link then

pretty pretty currency

That is pretty!

There was a Planet Money piece about tipping on All Things Considered today. Cliffs: quality of service has little impact on amt of tips.

there's truth to that. Consider the scenario that the kitchen takes too long to get the food out, customer complains, bill is voided by the manager. In that scenario, no matter how good I was to the table, it seemed just a matter of personal principle whether they tipped me or not (usually they left a tip, especially cuz they just got a free meal, but not always).

btw thanks to this thread I dreamed I was back at my old restaurant job from 8 years ago last night and woke up in a cold sweat. u owe me new unstained sheets ILX

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sweatstains, fuckwit

There was a Planet Money piece about tipping on All Things Considered today. Cliffs: quality of service has little impact on amt of tips.

well im also p skeptical of most ppl's ability to accurately evaluate 'quality of service'

surely that should be 'sbing frogsby'

up to an individual to decide tbf?

hey is it a thing to comp someone for some non-existent slight with the tacit understanding that you will get tipped extra as a way to shift money from the house to the staff?

oh yea, that's why they never let any of the waiters in my restaurant have access to 'comp' thigns on the computer.

they actually instituted a policy that you had to turn in your Buy One Get One free postcards intact at the end of the night because waiters in other locations of the franchise were ripping them in two and duping stupid managers into comping the meal of the table who brought in the postcard, and another random table that didn't, and pocketing the difference.

hm.. these are truly pro tips!

here's a question - do rightwingers tip? The general argument I have seen on this thread for why people should tip is that restaurant workers would otherwise starve. But a radical free-marketeer would surely just say "that's their problem, I am just going to pay the agreed contractual amount for the food I have received". Or do they?

(steve buscemi in reservoir dogs youtube video)

not 'it's their problem' rather 'my intervention would skew the market, helping nobody vis-a-vis long term resolution of this alleged imbalance'

i would think most people have seriously wondered why they need to tip but do it anyway

it's like pissing in that way

tipping at restaurants/bars I understand. tipping at a casino is something that i really am against (but do anyway because i don't want to be a dick) since they rake in money hand over fist over ass and run a business specifically designed to prepare you psychologically to give them your cash. surely they can pay the dealers properly!?

Back to the casino, and the circle is complete.

Black to the casino morelike

it's like pissing in that way

you mean if I don't tip then one day my wallet will fill up so much it will burst?

i have never honestly thought "i wish i didn't have to pee"

Wait till middle age and your shrinking bladder disturbs your sleep every night at 3:30.

or wait until all of the hydration you did before going onstage for Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" catches up with you

Pissa Solemnis

Oh c'mon, frogs, everybody's had a "photo finish"

Speaking of "photo finish"

I do have a really bizarre tipping scenario that'll probably get me banned if I post it here

PLEASE TELL IT

^^^^^^^^^^

omg it's twin hookers isnt it

Man, when you set posts up like that frogs, it's kinda like the fratboy who says "hey watch this" before accidentally blowing his nuts off with a firecracker...

uh

I mean, fratboy who sets himself on fire doing a flaming shot, sure, but that hypothetical seems excessive

But how much should the frat boy tip the bartender on the flaming shot?

omg it's twin hookers isnt it

I was imagining it having something to do with how to tip strippers of different "races".

there's a 'stiffing' joke in here somewhere

apparently it involves pissing, so I am just going to assume it's something about a friend who didn't tip a hooker after accidentally pissing on him/her

maybe the hooker pissed on the friend, but it wasn't in the pre-negotiated terms, and he forgot to tip her for it?