Comment · Tue, December 18, 2012
My gf got stuck with the closing shift and then BOOM, the karma police showed up.
What they were answering
ferrarisnowday · 1 points
People are down voting you because it sounds cheap, but unless you are eating at some pretty pricey places, you're tipping better than most people. Say 2 of you you get $10 meals and $2 drinks, a $24 bill. That's $2.40-$4.80 at 10-20%, but you're tipping $6.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Exactly! Not to mention I leave room for a real "tip," given the service. And if I get a $30 plate instead of a $10, that's the same effort to my server. Why should he/she get 3 times the tip? I never stay longer than an hour, half hour usually. I don't like to dilly dally. So I am not being an imposition, or demanding. I pick my food quickly, order politely, eat, then leave. I would walk up and get my own food if they let me. I don't want to be served and make a huge deal out of it.
I also think that people have a very skewed sense of financial compensation. I calculated one time that my server was making at least $65/hr at one restaurant I ate at. I was there for 30min. My bill came out to $60, since it was good seafood. She had 4 other tables besides me, all ordering much more than I did. My tip at 20% would have been $10 before tax. That means I am subsidizing her check at $20/hr personally. Then her other 4 tables stayed longer, but ordered twice as much food. That's when I realized it was insanity!
Percentage tipping is ridiculous. You want to charge me $7 for a premium beer, then expect the tip to go up too just for the hell of it? It was harder than bringing me a Coke or water? My $25 fish plate took 3 times the effort to bring as my appetizer? And just to stick it to me, I'm guilted into thinking that I am cheap for questioning it? Fuck that, not anymore. $1 per drink, $2 per plate, $2 per hour of eating. Then I can add more as my real "tip," if I feel the service deserves it.