Agree, and over tip the breakfast waitresses, at what ungodly hour do they rise to make sure we get good coffee and a warm restaurant to sit and complain in.
If the place has bad coffee well why did you go to Starbucks then?
The virtue signaling doosh is all fake BS. The male Karen is clearly a Woody Allen type (them) and would never tip other than to complain after cleaning the plate.
What frosts me is, the "we have to raise prices during covid to clean tables and door handles and stuff. It costs us so much more or else we will go broke." Then after a while, (mere weeks) that deep cleaning stopped and then the prices stayed high, ya know because of "higher food costs, minimum wage increase, or what ever excuse you want to throw out there." I stopped eating out before covid came along. I pack a sammie and a water bottle when I go to the city.
The food in clown world is at best sub standard, with pajeet cooks and GMO filled ingredients the dreck they serve is disgusting. If I find an place to eat out occasionally because the grub is good I tip only on the sub total and not on any included taxes, and only at 12% if the food and service was stellar. Food services have to understand that they are there at my leisure not the other way around.
Still a few places around here that pay way less than minimum wage to servers. The servers are still required to pay income tax based on 15% tips (calculated from register receipts) regardless of receiving tips or not. Not tipping literally costs them money. That said, poor service/shitty attitude will cost them when I don't tip. Average service gets them 15% from me. Great service 20% or more.
In Australia - NOBODY TIPS EVER ! Remember that if you ever come down here. Don't start that shit here. Everything is so fucking expensive that it would be impossible to go out to dinner, buy breakfast etc etc etc. Occasionally, if someone has been really fantastic, we _MIGHT_ leave a small tip but maybe once a year at most.
we go to Perkins. I get the same thing almost every time. 4 eggs over easy, 6 strips of bacon and double hash browns. rye toast. coffee with milk- yeah. I have drunk gallons of it black for years in my old age I like a little milk in it. get over it. I give the server 15 bucks at the start. service is fast and the food is both hot and well made. tipping up front is something i started years ago. it just seem to make things go smoother all around. this is something we do maybe 2-3 times a month. we know the server and some staff, the food is always good. I don't go to "yuppie" places to eat or Mcikey'sd either.
The big problem is that they are pricing people like me out of the market. If going out to dinner costs the equivalent of bringing two or three extra guests just for the tip, then I can't afford to go out to dinner.
I got the poors, but servers have it worse. If the server does great, they get 30ish%, good, 20%. If they suck, a couple bucks.
ReplyDeleteAgree, and over tip the breakfast waitresses, at what ungodly hour do they rise to make sure we get good coffee and a warm restaurant to sit and complain in.
DeleteIf the place has bad coffee well why did you go to Starbucks then?
The virtue signaling doosh is all fake BS. The male Karen is clearly a Woody Allen type (them) and would never tip other than to complain after cleaning the plate.
ReplyDeleteKiss. My. En-TIRE. Ass.
ReplyDeleteJust another reason to not eat out, this is the kind of asshole I always seen to get, yep great service 25-30 percent, him 10 percent.
ReplyDeleteWhat frosts me is, the "we have to raise prices during covid to clean tables and door handles and stuff. It costs us so much more or else we will go broke." Then after a while, (mere weeks) that deep cleaning stopped and then the prices stayed high, ya know because of "higher food costs, minimum wage increase, or what ever excuse you want to throw out there."
ReplyDeleteI stopped eating out before covid came along. I pack a sammie and a water bottle when I go to the city.
The food in clown world is at best sub standard, with pajeet cooks and GMO filled ingredients the dreck they serve is disgusting. If I find an place to eat out occasionally because the grub is good I tip only on the sub total and not on any included taxes, and only at 12% if the food and service was stellar. Food services have to understand that they are there at my leisure not the other way around.
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Still a few places around here that pay way less than minimum wage to servers. The servers are still required to pay income tax based on 15% tips (calculated from register receipts) regardless of receiving tips or not. Not tipping literally costs them money. That said, poor service/shitty attitude will cost them when I don't tip. Average service gets them 15% from me. Great service 20% or more.
ReplyDeleteIn Australia - NOBODY TIPS EVER ! Remember that if you ever come down here. Don't start that shit here. Everything is so fucking expensive that it would be impossible to go out to dinner, buy breakfast etc etc etc. Occasionally, if someone has been really fantastic, we _MIGHT_ leave a small tip but maybe once a year at most.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy fine dining and I tip accordingly. What gets on my very last nerve is when a 25% gratuity is automatically added to the bill.
ReplyDeletewe go to Perkins. I get the same thing almost every time. 4 eggs
ReplyDeleteover easy, 6 strips of bacon and double hash browns. rye toast.
coffee with milk- yeah. I have drunk gallons of it black for years
in my old age I like a little milk in it. get over it.
I give the server 15 bucks at the start. service is fast and the food is both hot and well made. tipping up front is something i started years ago. it just seem to make things go smoother all around. this is something we do maybe 2-3 times a month.
we know the server and some staff, the food is always good.
I don't go to "yuppie" places to eat or Mcikey'sd either.
The big problem is that they are pricing people like me out of the market. If going out to dinner costs the equivalent of bringing two or three extra guests just for the tip, then I can't afford to go out to dinner.
ReplyDelete40% for a tip? Eff that!
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