Do you think that one should tip their waiter/waitress or should they get a higher paying salary?

Answer 1

tip their waiter!

if not, my job income would take a sudden drop! i get most of my money making tips.

i work from 3-10 pm and make at least $100 every night including my weekly pay!

Answer 2

I definitely agree they should get higher salaries. Then if the customers want to leave a tip they can and if they don't no big deal. I wait on people all day, not waitressing but in retail, and I don't get tipped. I've always disagreed with this and have never been a waitress because of it. even when in high school I wouldn't do that job. It seemed ridiculous to work for $2 and something and maybe make some more getting tipped. I would rather have a job that had a reasonable or great base salary. It's still hard to find a good paying job unless you know a certain someone, so I am looking to quit my job soon and be only a online retailer. Right now I am working on boosting my sunglass site. It's going well. Check it out.

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Answer 3

It is really bad form if you do not tip a waiter/waitress. The actual wage their employer pays them is for "tipped employees" and is significantly lower than average wages paid for minimum wage-ish type jobs. So they count on the tips as part of the whole income package.

I tip 20% for outstanding service and I always speak to the waiter/waitress and say "thank you for your service."

I tip 15% if service is attentive, but not outstanding (eg, checking back, filling water glasses, asking if I need anything, presents dessert menu).

I tip 5 to 10% if bare-bones service is there (taking order, serving order, no interaction, doesn't check back after order, puts check on table before we're done, no request for dessert).

I have never "stiffed" a waiter/waitress. If the establishment is that bad--where the welcome is slow, the restaurant is messy, the waitrons look like they haven't washed the uniforms in a couple months, and the food sucks...I don't let it get to that point. I don't go there (walk out before even seated).

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Don't think they should get a higher "salary" most servers wouldn't want it that way anyway. They like to work for higher tips.

Answer 4

I am not, nor have I ever "been" a waitress. However, I have watched for years, waitresses work their tailends off waiting on people. Some appreciate them & the work they do, and some do "not." I believe they should get higher wages "and" higher tips!
They not only take orders, serve the food,and drinks, they are spoken to by many customers as if they are 5 people, instead of one. Sometimes they get yelled at if their food isn't "just right" as if "they" are the ones who cooked it! Yeah, they deserve a hike in the money department on both accounts. I personally don't have what it takes to be a waitress, because some of those customers would be "wearing" their food, and "I" would get fired!

Answer 5

It's a complete racket to benefit the restaurant owners. Restaurant lobbyists were successful in ensuring that they would have to pay very little out of pocket for their servers' hourly wages. Under federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, restaurant owners have to pay servers only $2.13 an hour, so long as the servers make at least $30 a month in tips and earn enough tips to bring them up to an average of at least $5.15 an hour for all hours worked.

What a crock! This means that customers not only have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for food (gimme a break, why are appetizers $6-9 these days?) but they are also funding the servers' paychecks while the restaurant owner sits back and reaps profits, profits, profits.

Do you realize that the average mid-sized restaurant is making $5 million a year? Restaurant owners (of small restaurants) live in $1 million houses. It's awful how they can get away with it legally and get richer and richer while servers work so very hard and earn so little. Meanwhile, what servers do earn is funded by customers, not the employer. It's sick and demented!

Answer 6

Both! Waiters and waitresses have a lousy salary and it's a tough job - physically demanding, stressful, and a lot of very demanding customers. So - they should earn more. Tipping makes them more motivated to give better service, though, and gives the customer a chance to give some instant feedback on how well they've been served, so the tipping system should be kept as well.

Answer 7

Servers definitely should earn higher wages from their employers.

In many places in America, the server's base salary can be as low as US $ 2.25.hr.

Here in New York State, the server can legally be paid a base salary as low as $ 5.25/hr (and many New York restaurants pay their servers "under the table" - that is, they only get tips, and no salary at all)

Servers also have to "tip out" (kick back a portion of their tips) to the bussers and bartenders. In some places, servers are also forced to "tip out" the manager, and even the owner (that's illegal, but it happens).

Servers who work on the books are taxed based on 200% of their base salary - that is, if they get $ 5.25/hr for a 30 hour week (or $ 157.50) they're taxed on $ 315 - even if they don't actually make that much money.

Considering that reality, you should tip your server AT LEAST 20%. If the service is exceptional, or the food is really really good think 30%.

And write your state assemblyperson demanding higher minimum wages for restaurant workers.

Answer 8

With High paying salary then Bad waiters/waitresses would be getting paid the same as Good. With a tip, the good ones get the tip they deserve and the bad ones get the tip they deserve, makes things fair. I feel bad for the good ones that don't get what they deserve just because some stingy *** doesn't want to part with their money.

Answer 9

I worked as a waitress part time when I was young and some nights esp a Friday or Saturday I brought home 300 or 400 dollars in tips . .. . Tips are great (if your a good waitress) I think if you didn't get tips the service would be bad cause the waitresses wouldn't try to please you they would just serve you and do the minium work to get by . .. .

Answer 10

Think of the service you sometimes get at McDonald's. Those kids don't care how good your service is, they get paid the same no matter what. When a server's livelihood depends on the level of service that is given, they tend to be more willing to give great service. Although I believe that the minimum wage for services should be increased from 2.13 and hour I do not believe that we should take away the tipping system. Not only would that lead to poorer service but it would lead to higher food cost.