Tipping

[Patler]

Plus if you eliminate tips and increase their hourly wage your chicken sandwich and blooming onion at Chili's will cost you 50% more. I don't always like to tip either, but I know what it's like to depend on them so if I get a good service I will tip good.

No, it wouldn't have to go up 50%. I doubt that their tips come close to that, and you would only have to raise costs enough to make up for the lost tips. Chances are about 15% would do it nicely, if you assume most people tip around that much, some more than that and some either don't tip intentionally or just forget to.

[Patler]

One thing I do not like is my wife tipping at the salon. When a haircut and coloring cost 130 bucks that's plenty for the hair stylist!

A stylist spends 2-3 hours on her hair and she shouldn't be tipped for that? Do you honestly think the stylist gets the whole $130? She has to pay for her products and probably her chair, if she gets 25% of that she's lucky. But men don't understand these things ! At least the straight ones

Years and years ago, when I was a kid, the "rule" at beauty salons and barbershops was that you did not tip the owner, but you did tip others in the shop who rented a chair from the owner. I tip my barber/owner now, have for as long as I can remember. What do the packerrats women do?

[MJZiggy]

One of my best friends takes care of my hair and I pay her cash (or babysit her kids) so there's really no tipping involved there. She's also one of the best stylists I've ever had so it works out all around.

[Little Whiskey]

you bring up a good question, that i am never sure of.

what if they are your friend or relative, tip then? how much?

[MJZiggy]

She's asked if I want her to do my hair at the salon and I tell her no because then not only would she have to share what I pay her (or in some cases give it all to the salon owner) but then I'd have to deal with that very issue. I hate the idea of getting into a situation where I feel like I'm in an employer relationship with my friends. I'd rather have my hair washed in her kitchen sink and have her massive dog with his nose in my face the whole while. He loves me.

[Harlan Huckleby]

When I was a little kid my dad made me tip him after he gave me a buzz cut. He was tough, but it made me what I am today.

[Partial]

I agree that tipping is really stupid.

I was darn close to not leaving a tip and complaining a few weeks back when I was in Florida. We went to a restaurant and our waitress failed to inform us that they were out of every ingriedient listed on our bistro burgers except for mayo. Yum. What a pain in the ass. Then, she didn't try to remedy the situation at all after I brought this to her attention. The burgers were very dry, too. I was pretty ticked off, but I do not like complaining in restaurants or making a scene because who knows who is sitting behind you that may think less of you? Normally I tip 20% but I dropped down to 15% for this bill. We decided to never go there again.

It's not worth the 5-10 dollars to potentially screw up your career, a friendship, etc.

[hoosier]

I was pretty ticked off, but I do not like complaining in restaurants or making a scene because who knows who is sitting behind you that may think less of you? Normally I tip 20% but I dropped down to 15% for this bill. We decided to never go there again.

It's not worth the 5-10 dollars to potentially screw up your career, a friendship, etc.

Good thinking. But the real reason not to complain is that then they spit in your food.

[Deputy Nutz]

A tip is for someone that does something good. A waitress does a good job, hell even an average job, refills your drink when needed, takes your order correctly, informs you of the specials, and any other information, brings your food in a timely fashion, makes sure you have napkins silverware, makes sure your table is clean, food is served hot, and then checks back to make sure everything is good. Now if I have a messy table, or my silverware is missing, I won't knock the tip, but come on if she just cruises through the meal and doesn't do her job she doesn't get a tip, and that is the way it should be.

I was at a resturant the other day and I just had water with my meal, my water glass never got refilled, the food got basically thrown in front of us, it was good food, it was hot, but then she just sat at the counter text messaging for the rest of my meal. Piss on her I didn't want to leave a tip, but my father in law thought the food was so good that we better leave something. I scoffed and bitched, but left .50 cents on a 6.00 meal.

Hear is a message, a tip shouldn't be expected, it is a sign from the customer that the service met his expectations with in reason.

[Freak Out]

A tip is for someone that does something good. A waitress does a good job, hell even an average job, refills your drink when needed, takes your order correctly, informs you of the specials, and any other information, brings your food in a timely fashion, makes sure you have napkins silverware, makes sure your table is clean, food is served hot, and then checks back to make sure everything is good. Now if I have a messy table, or my silverware is missing, I won't knock the tip, but come on if she just cruises through the meal and doesn't do her job she doesn't get a tip, and that is the way it should be.

I was at a resturant the other day and I just had water with my meal, my water glass never got refilled, the food got basically thrown in front of us, it was good food, it was hot, but then she just sat at the counter text messaging for the rest of my meal. Piss on her I didn't want to leave a tip, but my father in law thought the food was so good that we better leave something. I scoffed and bitched, but left .50 cents on a 6.00 meal.

Hear is a message, a tip shouldn't be expected, it is a sign from the customer that the service met his expectations with in reason.

I would not have left here a red cent. I'm not asking to have my dick sucked just good courteous service. If you do your job I tip very well...in cash. If you don't I let you know by how I tip. Sometimes verbally before leaving the establishment.