Who do you tip and how much?

[SicilyYoder]

Re: Who do your tip and how much?

I tipped the coat-check lady $3.00 today. I always tip 30% in restaurants because I used to be a waitress. I like to give my security guys a $200.00 tip at Christmas. I tip my hairdresser $5.00 and also give her $100.00 at Christmas. I tip my make-up artist $5.00 and also give him $100.00 at Christmas.

[baking23]

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I tip 20% in resturants. I get my hair cut, maybe once a year, at a school and they don't let the students recieve tips. Plus the cut is only $15 bucks and if you don't like it they'll do it aigan for free. Other than that I don't have any folks that I'd tip.

[Hez]

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Does anyone here tip cab drivers? I usually tell them to keep the change, typically a few dollars. However if they're creepy or take the long way (thinking I won't notice) then obviously no tip for them!

[markio26]

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i tip 20% in restaurants... we usually pick up our pizzas. so, no tip there...

[kimiko]

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I believe tips is a reward for excellent service, not a REQUIREMENT. Yet nowaday, everyone who work in the service industry expect it, regardless of service. And what's the deal with getting extremely crappy service if you visit the business again after not tipping the first time. Are good customer service being held hostage and to be release upon payment in the form of tip? Why are customers expected to pay the wages of waiters? That's what the employers are for. I stop visiting this one restaurant after they made the 10% tip mandatory and included in the bill to be shared with management. So on top of a required tip, we had to leave some money on the table too, cause it looks bad otherwise, for barely decent service.

I see a lot of people who wait tables and depends on tips in here, but seriously if you accepted a low paying job then expect low income. Don't expect the customers to make up the difference for you. There are plenty of people who work low paying job and guess what, got low income. They certainly serve everyone in this society whether directly or indirectly and no one is tipping them nor do they expect any. I get really angry when I see people on TV go on and on about tipping and how many percent is the right percent and how it's part of etiquette and how you're a scrooge if you don't tip, and don't forget how the service staff is going to spit in your food etc....

This is not to say that above and beyond excellent service doesn't deserve some compensation and I do tip when I receive such service. But to force the customers into tipping is just downright wrong in my book. What's with the 18% going rate anyway?

[cschin4]

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I don't mind tipping for service where the person is actually doing something for you that involves some time and effort such as waitressing, hair dresser, etc. I was recently at the airport and decided to check my luggage at the curb where the airline had a baggage check. I carried my heavy bag to the checkout and set it on the metal scale. The baggage man stuck a tag on it. I proceeded to walk off (I really wasn't sure if I was supposed to tip for that and wasn't really thinking about it) and the baggage person ran after me to chase me down telling me he had provided me a service, etc! I thought that was pretty bold so I just walked away hoping my bag would get to it's destination. I don't mind tipping but sorry, putting a tag on my luggage as an employee of the airline company and not even lifting the bag doesn't seem worthy of a tip. I think it is absurd. Baggage handlers seem to expect big tips for 5 sec of effort.
As for waitressing, I like to tip well and a good waiter/waitress makes the dinner all that more enjoyable. However, they keep raising the "going rate". I always thought the "going rate" was 15% for general service and more if excellent.

[PRICEPLUS]

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15% at restaraunts for proper sevice and 20% for stellar service. Nothing if the service was bad! 2 dollars for flower deliveries. 3 to 5 dollars for pizza deliveries. I give my lady barber a 5 dollar tip.

Why is there a tip cup at the local Dunkin Donuts? I mean come on!!!

[fairy74]

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I tip restaurant workers who do a good job and I tip newspaper delivery people. I would say a total of about $10 per month. I do not tip stylists as every stylist I know makes more than minimum wage already. I tip pizza delivery people, but we usually go pick it up so I would say that is only 1-2 times per year.

[Ima saver]

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Sorry,I worked as a waitress; it was the only job I could get in this area. It is wrong to expect people to work hard and only get paid $2.01 an hour, but that is the way it is in America.
Not only we were required to take good care of the customers, but we were also required to do all the cleaning in the restaurant for that $2.01 an hour.
I always leave a 20% tip, actually it is usually closer to 30% I leave $6 for a $20 and under meal. I also give each of the girls (5 or 6 of them) at my favorite restaurant $20 plus their regular tip during the week before christmas. I leave them candy too.

[sarah]

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I see this as a matter of financial social justice. Wait staff are taxed on a presumed tip amount whether or not they get it. It is simply not just to ask wait staff to pay for my eating out. Or for my behavior to cost them money. I always tip 20 percent and sometimes more. Especially in smaller diners where I know the wait staff is not being paid well. This is not a matter of good or bad service it is a matter of justice.

[PRICEPLUS]

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Sarah, if a waiter/waitress is surly, provides poor service, and makes my dining experience pure hell I willl leave no tip at all. I worked as a bartender and so I know what it is to work for tips.

15% is a standard expected tip. If the wait staff is good I'll tip more. I don't think anyone should tip for poor service or be expected to tip for purely "Social Justice" reasons. I always tip in cash so as to leave reporting up to the conscience of those recieving the tip!

I am in no way criticizing your take on the subject it is just I see it differently.

[tinapbeana]

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i tip waitstaff 20% or better (unless s/he did something just totally unprofessional). when in argentina, i was suprised to find out tipping is not customary there except for the guys who handle your baggage at the airport... even that was just something they got used to when all the foreigners did it...

[Ima saver]

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I know that they do all the cleaning up, so i tip even if the service is not that good. Maybe the poor girl was having a bad day. I remember getting the phone call at work that my mother had died. I had to keep on working, so I probably was not the smiling person that I should have been to my customers.

[sarah]

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I don't think this is anylonger a private issue. The tax laws have changed so that even though wait staff are not subject to the minimium wage laws they are automatically taxed on 10% of their gross sales. There is a presumed tax on their wages whether or not they actually get that tax. It doesn't matter any more whether or not they "declare" their tips they are taxed regardless.

[cschin4]

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Personally, I don't think people should be tipping as a "matter of justice". If that is the case, why not pass out money to everyone you meet from cashiers, fast food workers, etc? People can chose to take the lesser hourly and work for tips or get a job with a higher rate. I think a "no tipping" restaruant where it was built into the price would be great but people would still tip anyway so it probably would only work in theory.