Well written.

Tips are a voluntary, its your good will to give anything extra. Why the hell am I supposed to pay someone that is already paid by his/her boss? Logic behind that?

This is not a charity.

yeah paid $2 an hr ,yep they are paid big money.

A few weeks ago on Reddit they had an AMA (ask me anything) interview with a guy who used to be a knight at the Medieval Times restaurant (the one where you sit around a small arena and watch knights battle). He said the servers make more money than the knights do. Serving the food is actually fairly easy because everyone gets pretty much the same thing, the harder part is getting everyone drinks in a timely fashion. He said if a server was good at what they did and they played along with the crowd, insulting people, cheering and having fun, they could make $300-$400 a night in tips. Most servers worked 3-4 nights per week which worked out to about 30 hours per week. That is pretty good money.

Not my fault. :2 cents:

Tipping for catered events is definitely not standard. It's happens but not often and while I tip for a lot of stuff well I would be outraged if they tacked gratuity on a catering bill.

Catering servers are paid $10-25+ an hour, the catering company bills even more., this is not $2.50 an hr waiter in a restaurant type situation

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In fact, us Canucks have a different minimum wage for service people who get tips. Companies can pay less than minimum wage for pay pizza drivers, bartenders, waitresses, masseuses, etc. That's why 15% is the norm for us... and maybe why so many other countries like it when Canadian's travel there and give them a 15% tip :pimp

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For dining in a restaurant, maybe, but for a pizza delivery? I hardly think so. On this particular order that would be close to $200 bucks. Hey, if that's what you want to throw your money at I have no problem with it, but to me rounding that bill up to $1500 would have been more than fine.

Giving the deliver person ten bucks on a $1400+ order is like telling the poor schmuch he and his job are all but worthless. Get an order in the future from the same guy and he's liable to add snot instead of the extra cheese you ordered. :2 cents:

They do here in the US also about $2 an hour. Some people want to feel their being cheap is a way of making a statement. Nope its just being cheap.

I typically tip up to 10% for delivery. I think $50 here would have sufficed though. Anything less than that is fuckin cheap. If you can cough up $1400 to have 85 pizzas delivered to you, then you can give the guy $50.

When in the US 15-20% at a restaurant and 20-25% at bars

yup... the bars have that $1 tip thing going on. Make a cocktail that takes more then 10 seconds, $2 for that drink.

I leave a 20% tip at restaurants. For pizza delivery (normal like $20-$30 I give them $4)

Did he deliver the pizzas well?

Tips from my POV are performance based...

If the pizza arrived pristine, he got them there hot, had a smile on his face, etc... I'd have rounded it to 1,500.00
If he had a sorry attitude, got thm there cold etc... Less would be appropriate.
Without knowing how he was, its impossible to say if 10.00 was too much or too little.

Math is hard. True story.

i mean c'mon --- 10% is ok, aint it? he will be back - and then no-one has spit on yers ;)

In Australia tipping is entirely voluntary. The only time I've actually seen mention of a tip on my credit card receipt was at a computer shop that had their system misconfigured. I made sure I wrote NIL in the tip field, wasn't going to give them a tip for fetching a graphics card off the shelf. :thumbsup

Since we are on the topic of tipping. Why do we tip people who cut hair. Someone that works at a place like Supercuts gets paid on a sliding scale. They are guaranteed minimum wage, but if they sell more (like wash and blowdry, perm etc) they can make more. The think I just read said that the average stylist there makes between $9-$15 per hour not counting tips. Still, everyone tips them.

I used to work at Radio Shack (many many years ago) and was guaranteed minimum wage then also made commission so if I sold a good amount I made more). I solved countless problems for people and helped tons of people out and never got a tip. In high school I worked at a small store and often pumped gas. In the year that I worked there I got tipped twice, both of them came at Christmas. One was a random couple that gave me $5 and told me they appreciated my service in the shitty weather (it was wet and cold) and one was $100 from a guy who came in almost every day and filled his truck up. The truck was a pain in the ass to fuel up so I would break the rules and let him operate the pump so he could fill his truck while I helped other people. He said he tipped me because I was the only one that would let him operate the pump and he appreciated it.

It is odd to me how we decide which jobs are tip worthy and which are not.

As a kid i did that goto pizza hut eat and leave type attitude HaHa that would suck for the waitress as well probably.

The one that always gets me is the fellow at a hotel cab stand.. he whistles raises a finger and opens and closes a cab door for 4 bucks. I bet some of those guys are doing very well.

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Clean and classy. $10 is a slap in the face, might as well not leave anything.

That's what I do sometimes..

Last bar tab was $76 so I made it be $100 total..

Those people get less than min wage.

Supercuts people? I don't think so. I was just reading a Facebook post where someone said they had gotten hired there ad they were guaranteed at least minimum wage, but they would make more depending on what their average ticket sale was so they were encouraged to try to upsell people for different products/services.

with a tip like that The customer better be prepared lol next time his pizza's just might get spat on ....totally cheap

tip of my dick.

The quality of the food and the time it took shouldnt influence the tipping

When theres a problem most of the time its because of the owner/manager and/or the chef/cook

Waiter just deliver

In a Usa/Canada its 15% min. end of story

If you dont want/like or can afford, well dont go to restaurant, or less often or cheaper one..

Old debate ..

Can't blame a waitress for the back up n the kitchen,as long as she explains a delay and is attentive during a long wait,she deserves a fin minimum.poor management= no return customers = no tips