How do you know if you have to leave a tip at a restaurant or shops??

Question

I know i can always leave a tip if i want to (and this is not the answer i'm looking for), but there are certain times where you are "supposed to" do it.

For example, when i went to the car wash for the first time, i didn't give any tip at the end. Later, i found out i was supposed to give him. I really didn't know about it and felt sorry.

So my question is how do you know if you are supposed to give a tip at certain places (for certain services)? Could you list some of the services if possible?

By the way, am i supposed to give a tip after the oil change too? I don't think so.

Answer 1

No, you don't have to tip after an oil change.

I tip for waiters, car wash kids, food delivery, haircuts, and other hands-on, meet-the-person service.

Answer 2

Tip your tattoo artist - they remember!
Tip your piercer - they remember, too!
Anyone who works on your hair at the salon - including the shampooer (if it's not the same person cutting).
Room-service at a hotel (although it's automatic at some).
The concierge and bellhops at nice hotels, also the valet (if you use it).
You can leave cleaning ladies a tip - but some don't accept it - and that's the ones who don't just take money that's laying around.
Any food delivery - they remember, too!

Also, if you didn't like the service, but the receipt has a line for the tip - write in that space what you didn't like. Just make sure to write the total from above in the space for TOTAL - that way, they can't just charge you a tip. Ethics say they shouldn't anyway, but I don't put it past some people.
I did that at a TGIFriday's. The server never refilled my tea when I needed it - he would walk by a few times and ignore me, before coming back to ask if I needed a refill - THEN he would get the pitcher. I wrote in "JUST GET THE DAMN PITCHER!".

Answer 3

according to the europeans the way they did the whole tipping thing was on how good the service was. you could leave a tip at a nice restaurant worth 15-20% depending on how much and how good your service is. at shops you do not leave tips unless it is a starbucks or something along that line-it shows disrespect! my advice: do some reading if you plan on traveling since in France you do not tip-it is included in the tip and it is considered an insult if you do that. read online or check out some books from Barnes and Nobles on etiquette and tipping. you do not tip when you change your oil, but tipt the valet parker-i saw that happen in some cases-as well as your server at a restaurant, your Starbucks person-put the tip in the jar labeled "TIPS".

Answer 4

In the UK it's standard to give a 10% tip if the waiter/waitress service and food has been good. Otherwise, maybe £1 per bag if a hotel porter takes your bags to your room; perhaps a 10% tip for a taxi driver especially if pre-booked and he puts your luggage in the cab/takes it out, but it's not particularly frowned upon if you don't. If you're pleased with your haircut it's common to tip the hairdresser and perhaps hair washer, but there is by no means the tipping culture here that there is in the US, perhaps cos basic wages are better? We certainly don't tip in shops.

Answer 5

TIP= To Insure Promptness. Well, OK, so maybe your tip isn't insuring that you'll get better service, but it should work to insure that someone else does. But I only tip waiters/waiteresses and car wash people. I don't use delivery, so I can't tip them. I also tip people when I get my hair cut. Shops, I never tip, and if you are in a place where they only serve you from behind a counter, they don't need to be tipped at all.

Answer 6

I had never heard of tipping the car wash person either.
If the service is good, leave a tip at all restaurants.
Hair salons unless the owner does your hair
person who takes your groceries to the car
pizza delivery

Answer 7

yes, tip after the car wash and after the oil change, too. i was told once that you tip anyone that provides you with an extra service. so, pumping gas you dont have to tip, but if he changes the oil then you do.
It does depend on what country you are in, because in some places you tip waiters, and in other countries you dont.

Answer 8

Tips have become highly perverted over the years. A tip was generally only given to wait persons and delivery persons. These days everyone has a tip jar next to their cash register. Here's how I decide. If someone is waiting on me, I will tip them. If I have to wait on someone else, there is no tip.

Answer 9

Hair salon--usually 10-15%
Taxi driver--10-15 % or a flat amount
Airport--Skycap $2+/bag

The link below has a very extensive guide. http://www.findalink.net/tippingetiquette.php

Answer 10

well its according to your country that the answer could come from.a tip can be given but if the person you are giving realizes it.