Do you agree tips should pay your waiter?

Question

I have waited tables and I tip, but I am beginning to resent that I must tip the customary 15% plus if I got good service. When I already pay sky high prices for food and should be served well since I am there and paying, why do I then need to give a gift higher than taxes on my wages? I think the tip should come out of the already high cost, and resteraunt owners should pay better. What do you think?

Why work for someone who pays so little? Why should I have to make up the difference for good service which as some hve said should come anyhow.

Also I eat out every meal 5 days a week because my husband and I team drive trucks. At 20.00 a meal it costs $60.00 daily plus tips and that doesn't include drinks later etc. It gets expensive. Then we like to eat out at nice places when were home.

Answer 1

Yes, I agree that tip plus a gratuity calculated into the food price shouldn't be charged I guess if you have a really good waiter you can decide to leave something but you should be able to decide how much that is not have it be a calculated price! I don't understand the correlation between having a more expensive and therefore having to leave a bigger tip! It's getting way too expensive to get a good meal with good service! I expect good service and shouldn't have to always pay so much to get it!

Answer 2

I agree, they should pay their servers better wages but until that happens, if ever, we depend on what we make in tips. Why eat out so much then if you can't afford the tip? I don't mind a 15 percent tip, it's better than the folks who just leave a dollar no matter what the bill was. I'm glad that doesn't happen very often! I work at a restaurant so I rarely go out to eat, but when I do, I tip very well, especially for excellent service, and I let the server know they did a great job too. That's what I think.

Answer 3

If a gratuity has come to be EXPECTED, it ceases to have any meaning whatsoever as a gratuity. And if it's "customary" and factored in, then it should be factored in from the beginning, i.e., in the employee's SALARY -- like every other occupation. Why the hell should be make exceptions for restauranteurs?

Plus, no one forces anyone to work in a service job. If you don't like that your employer doesn't pay in the same manner as the rest of the world, or you don't like flucuating reliability of tips, then don't work in a service industry. (By the same token, no one is forced to work anywhere that people are allowed to smoke.)

I love the "IF you get good service" concept. As I understand the job description, good service is a requirement, not an option, although I know in practice anymore most Americans have no work ethic at all. There should be no "if" involved. If you don't think you can give good service to all your customers, you don't deserve a job of any kind (nor a welfare state subsidy in lieu of one).

It's your boss's job to pay you, not mine. I go to a restaurant to eat, not to do math or to ponder the variables of your personal choices. There's enough whiney people in the world already.

Answer 4

As a server,8% is automatically deducted from my pay check for each of my days sales.So,if you don't tip me anything,I am basically paying to serve you.Also,15%?,how turn of the century.If you get good service,at least 18%,great service,20%0r more.Remember that I "tip out "busboys and bartenders according to the cash I make at the end of the day.If you think the service you recieved was bad,let the manager know and then it would be nice for you to give a $ or 2 to the busboy & or dishwasher.Ask the manager to give the tip to them,it's a nice pat on the back for "the back of the house",and your server will know why they missed out.
Last but not least,if you can't afford it, cook at home or try a drive-thru,one small step in keeping the peace.xoxoxoxo

Answer 5

If you don't tip, then you adversely effect the underpaid wait staff. It's that simple.

I have tipped ever since I found out that, in many American restaraunts, the wait staff only get what they make in tips. Since I do not know which ones, I tip all, unless the service is so bad as to be worthless (and that does happen once and a while). I tip 15%, and more if the service is good.

If the prices are too high, I eat elsewhere, or complain to the management. I don't take it out on the staff.

Answer 6

Evidently, we have millions of highly-educated waiters in America. TIP is an acronym for "To Insure Promptness," (not "To Insure Proper Service" as someone else above mistakenly wrote.) If you are not interested in rewarding good service and building a reputation for the practice with the service personnel in that establishment, you should not tip, and are probably caving to a form of social pressure. the American system of tipping is the silliest in the world, and amounts to a "customary surcharge."

Part of the problem is that people don't resist what is obviously screwed up. But I guess that's what makes them American.

Answer 7

I do 15% and better only for outstanding service. Anything less than outstanding...$1 maybe 2 if they are at least pleasant. I'd prefer restaurants didn't up the prices to pay better. Let the people who give good service get great tips and those who give poor service get lousy tips and hopefully realize they need to find work outside of customer service.

Answer 8

A few of the restaurants that deliver here in Tucson automatically put through 25% more than your total bill, if you are paying by credit or debit card. I think they have some nerve for doing that.

Most waiters live on their tips - the restaurants should give them a higher wage, and allow customers to tip only if they have had excellent service and want to.

Answer 9

I think if you cannot afford to TIP, you should not be eating out. Ive never waited tables (its looks hard as hell and a lot of work) but I think those people deserve it. If a meal you ordered is wrong, its not the waiters fault, its the ppl in the back but the waiter gets blamed for it. If you use a service, you should tip.

Answer 10

Tips are a way the resturant gets low wage employes to work harder. We not only pay for the meal, we also pay their wages. I also think this should be done away with. But you are also talking about other publics service people...Cab drivers, Tow Truck drivers etc...All paid low wages and the public pays for the service and part of the wages also.