Tips?
Tips? You'd like to.
They get paid to be there and do their fracking job, don't need any extra money from me. Don't feel they get enough from their wages? Get a nice shiny new job. Do you tip the guy that serves you in the shopping mall? How about the guy who fixes your car? Didn't think so. Fracking greedy food industry workers.
*Runs off to the 'What bugs me today' thread*
I find myself agreeing with you - if you take a job, you shouldn't do so with the expectation that you get
extra money just for showing up and doing that job. [As an aside, I do customer service work via the phone and take as much crap as any waiter ever would - and probably more, since there is major major money riding on some of the stuff I'm involved with. And yet, I don't expect a tip when I do my job or go above and beyond.]
That being said, I take a realistic view here. I know that if I don't tip at the places I regularly go to I won't get adequate service and so I bite the bullet and pony up the extra cash.
I take it you do enjoy spite in your food because if you eat out on a semi regular bases it does not take long for the Waite staff to figure out who do not to tip. Also means you will get crappy service because there is ZERO motivation to do anything for you. It would take your order, give your drink, and food then give you your check. You will not be check on, your drinks will not get refilled. Why should they. They will do the bare min and that is take the order and drop the order off and collect your payment.
Waiters take more **** than almost any one else. They earn that tip. But then again you apparently do not understand that if it was not for the tip you see those menu prices add 30% to them. That would more than likely be your increase in cost because they would add that to pay the Waite staff.
So 15% seems like a good deal dont it.
The problem with this viewpoint is that it ignores the fact that it is the job of the waiter to take care of their customers. Getting your food, refilling your drink - all minimum requirements of that person's job. If I'm required to pay extra for those basics, then tell me up front so I can avoid that restaurant. Tipping is a choice.
In the US, where we don't routinely have gratuity tacked on the bill, 15% is the absolute minimum tip that should be left by civilized people, IMO. Wait staff make crap wages (often no set pay check: employers deduct apron/uniform costs and any miscalculations you might have done on the check in favor of the customer, which results in not getting "paid" by the restaurant, since they don't even make minimum wage), and make their living from tips.
What does a waiter's wage have to do with me? I'm not trying to be a di*khead here but for the life of me I don't understand why a customer is responsible for making up a waiter's shortfall in wages.
If someone goes to work at a restaurant they're obviously doing so knowing what their hourly wage is. If they can make extra money on the side via tips, great! But when I go out to eat I'm doing it so I can enjoy a meal prepared by someone else, not to supplement someone else's income. And if a waiter is supposed to earn a tip just for showing up, why shouldn't other customer service folks do so as well?
Again, I'm not against the notion of tipping; despite what you may get from my posts I do regularly tip 15%+
. However I'm very much against this sense of entitlement that many wait staff seem to have in regards to tipping.
Tipping is a reward for good service, not part of your regular paycheck.
