How do you tip?

I have a simple way to tip: I take the tax and double it. If the sum ends up in any change whatsoever, I round up a dollar; even if it's less than $0.50.

Example: Tonight my check for a local dinner for myself was $47.81. Tax in California for this meal would be $3.82. The tip for this is $8 even.

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Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie

It's amazing what a reputation for being a good tipper can do. For awhile me and one of my friends always got the same waitress at Red Robbin and since we were leaving her like $10 tips on $30 orders, she was REALLY going out of her way to make sure we got good service.

This also reminds me... One time Frank and I were at a local restaurant that brews their own beer and we ordered a beer. Keep in mind, I'm there twice a week either to write my lesson plans or to work on some design.

I'm also known for being a damn generous tipper and I know every single server that works there so whenever I show up with anyone they only thing they wanna know is what my company is having for dinner because they already know what I want, "Liter of IPA, right? What's everyone else having?" Some new kid that had actually started working there and even though he'd already taken our drink order, he decided to card Frank. Frank didn't have his wallet on him because I was buying. This little prick wouldn't serve him a beer!

Needless to say, I didn't leave a single tip but Frankie, ever the sucker for being a kind soul, pulled him aside before we left and gave him a $5 tip for having brought me my liter of beer. I was still kind of pissed that this little shit wouldn't serve him so I just told Frank in mid-transaction, "What the fuck are you doing? I could've bought another pint with that." I left a penny on the table as well.

I'll tell you what though, they've never refused service to anyone who walks in with me after that and that boy never worked the floor again.

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Originally Posted by The_Melomane

He could have lost his job if a cop came in, saw Frank with alcohol and no ID.

I do apologize for the fact that, apparently, where you live cops just walk up to patrons in restaurants and card them to ensure that the law is being followed down to a "T".

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I've known people to get fired for serving people they know are 21 but don't have an ID. So, really that was an asshole thing for you to do, he was just doing his job.

Tell me. When you take a drink order do you go and place the order, bring it back to the table and THEN card people? What would you think of someone who did that to you? If he was REALLY doing his job he would've carded him PRIOR to going and filling our drink order.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Seriously Paco. Dude was just looking to not get fired.

He got fired anyway, so... what did we learn from this?

Serve every motherfucker around so that we may all eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow we might die.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

I don't understand why you'd get mad and not tip for someone doing their job. I mean, if you want to feed Frankie beer when he's underage, why not just feed him beer at home?

For one, they brew their own beer there so we don't just get to take a pitcher home with us and, second, it's GOOD FUCKING BEER. It should also be noted that he'd already been served there before when he came out there the previous summer so it was especially irritating to have to argue with a kid who still hadn't hit puberty about whether or not my friends could drink there. Last I checked, I was literally putting money in his pocket to make sure the above happened.

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I don't know, man. This was ridiculous of you. I'm sorry.

I know it was ridiculous of me. Who said it wasn't? I may be sugarcoating it and, yes, I'm an uptight asshole. I just think that there should be a little leniency for patrons like myself and their guests who sink roughly the equivalent of one waiter's yearly salary into this joint.

I'm not even exaggerating when I say that either.

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Originally Posted by The_Melomane

Because my tips are taxed, I end up with paychecks that are about $30 a week. Before tax they're well over $150.

This is another thing I don't agree with. Tips being taxed. Where I eat, the vast majority of my waiters, waitresses and busers are great people and they often deserve their tip, if not more. One of them tells me that their tips left by credit card are taxed because, well, you can't really hide that kind of thing without the help of a guy named Vinnie who runs a drycleaning business in Jersey. This is why, when my friends and I eat anywhere, I go out of my way to ensure that their tip is left in cash if their service was good. I really don't care if I'M the only one having to take the brunt of the tip.

I mean, seriously, if I have a party of 6 and service is exceptional, a crisp Jackson is in order. No questions asked.

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Originally Posted by DarkMageOzzie

I can't count the number of times I was ready to slug a customer working as a cashier because some asshole started yelling and cussing at me cause he couldn't buy beer because he didn't have enough sense to leave his underage friends outside. But it was always satisfying if a manager overheard them swearing, came over, and notified them that they were now banned from the store.

Please confirm that you don't assume that I yell and cuss at my waiters/waitresses? Nigga please. Get back to me when you're not in a thread bitching about the money that I'M giving you.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If there's a party of 20 and you're the only server then, yes, you SHOULD be given an extra tip. I realize it's their job but when you're waiting on 20 people single-handed that's a little out of the ordinary.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Perhaps it's a good idea for staff to pressure management to close earlier so as to not inconvenience yourselves with YOUR JOB.

How ya doing, buddy?

All I'm saying is, when I go to a restaurant and I'm done eating, if I happen to have my laptop I'm gonna have a few drinks and get some work done. After all, my work is almost directly paying your salary; which you're complaining about.

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Originally Posted by Shorty

Unless you're continuously/constantly ordering drinks while you work, you taking up a table / seat is actually costing the restaurant more than you think.

...:words:...

You taking up a table for an overly extended period of time (basically past the point where the restaurant has no revenue opportunity out of you) is just you being a jackass (unless, again, you're ordering a beer every 5 minutes or so).

OK... You've, like, seen me drink. Do you honestly see that as being a problem for me to be ordering a beer every 5-10 minutes or so?

In two hours' worth of time, I will write lesson plans for a whole week, finish a couple of designs, dust about 3 pitchers of beer, pay my tab, tip my server in cash, stumble to my car, drive home, talk my way out of a ticket and be home in time for House M.D..

Who's kidding who now?

Jam it back in, in the dark.