this ends up essentially doubling your total meal bill. Does the standard 18% tip still apply? I mean, it takes no more effort for the server to bring you a $15 bottle of wine than it does to bring the bottle that's ten times as expensive. My natural inclination would be to tip 18-20% on the MEAL portion of the bill, plus a couple bucks for the wine bottle... Bad etiquette? I'm not a cheap-skate... I'm simply asking so I'll know what to do. Either answer is OK with me.
2007-02-01 02:49:09 · 17 answers · asked by I hate friggin' crybabies 5 in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
As a server at Steak n' Shake, we have to claim 10% of our total sales, so if you wouldn't tip on one part of the meal, I would still have to claim that you did. You should tip on the entire ticket.
2007-02-01 04:06:15 · answer #1 · answered by theflamingspork88 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a hard question. I'm a bartender for 5yrs now and i have never really had that happen probably because we don't sell that high priced of wine in the casino i work at. But, I don't get tipped on price well unless the have a tab then they tip usually 20% of their tab. Wither i serve them a 3 dollar beer or a 7 dollar drink i usually get the same amount on average. As far as in a restaurant I usually tip 25% unless i just have a cheap breakfast or a cup of coffee then i tip usually the same about as what i bought. If i could afford at $150 bottle of wine i would still tip the full about of my ticket! And in some cases the waitress has to tip the bartender, busser, cook, hostess. Just remember we work hard for our tips and in most states they don't get paid but 2 something an hour. I fortunately work in a state which pays servers and bartenders a great hourly wage and i don't have to live on my tips those are just extra for me but, that's not the case in MOST states.
2007-02-01 03:27:39 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it still counts. You bought it and therefore, it goes towards the waitress total amount of sales that night. When waitress tip out bus boys, hostesses, etc it's by a % of their sales. So, and extra $150 in sales means the waitress might have to tip out an extra $1.50-2 per person (2 bucks to host, 2 bucks to busboy)
Plus, in my opinion. If you have the money to buy $150 bottle of wine, then there should be no question in whether or not to tip the waitress a full 15-20% of your total bill.
2007-02-01 04:44:24 · answer #3 · answered by Answer Girl 2007 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes no more effort for the server to bring you a $12 plate of pasta or a $39 tenderloin in the same restaurant, so the 'effort' analogy doesn't really work.
The fact is, if you can afford a $150 bottle of wine, then you can afford to tip on that $150 bottle of wine. There is no *rule* that you *have* to tip (unless you've got one of those 'parties of x or more' gratuity thing going), but the guideline sticks.
But you don't tip on the tax.
2007-02-01 04:56:49 · answer #4 · answered by geekygrrlri 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a server, you should know this. You say you aren't cheap. If you don't tip on the entire bill, your server will think you are. After all, you can afford to buy a $150.00 bottle of wine, why can't you afford the service?
Having said that, if the bottle is very expensive, I don't always expect someone to tip fully on it. On Tuesday, a customer of mine spent $780.00 on a bottle of 95 Bordeaux. Did I expect a full tip on that? Not really. But I also didn't expect him to tip me only $10 on the bottle (which he did).
2007-02-01 05:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes tip on the bottle of wine. Where I work we have to tip the bartenders a percentage of our beverage sales. If you bought a $150 bottle of wine and you didn't tip on it I would still have to tip the bar $15 out of my pocket for it. Different restaurants are different so I would just ask your server if they have to tip the bar at the end of the night and then use your own judgment.
2007-02-01 03:23:49 · answer #6 · answered by sweetjenv23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would tip 20% for the meal portion only - not including the wine, if I just ordered one bottle of wine. If I had ordered more than one, I'd add in a few more dollars. If there was a wine steward, the wine steward should be tipped 10-15% of the cost of the wine.
Hope that helps!
2007-02-01 02:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by turnerzgirl101 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason wait-staff look so angry when my friends and I say "we'll just have water" is that they depend on a large drink bill for a large tip!
The answer is that you should tip on the entire bill (less tax, but I don't usually quibble about that). I usually leave 20% of the entire bill, unless the service is bad.
I know you're not being a cheap-skate, but if you have any resistance at all to over-tipping, just read the book "nickeled and dimed" about trying to make a living in the US on unskilled-labor wages!
2007-02-01 03:37:32 · answer #8 · answered by firefly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...you always tip a according to your bill. It does not matter if you order water vs soda, cheap wine vs. more pricey wine. Either way, servers live off of the tips. And as you tip off of the total bill, at the end of her shift, she also must tip off of her total sales. So ALWAYS TIP A MINIMUM OF 18% OF THE BILL!!!
2007-02-01 05:47:31 · answer #9 · answered by lile79 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly... does it take a waitress at Denny's more work to bring you your $2.99 breakfast... compared to the waitress at a fancy restaraunt who brings you a $80 meal... ???
If you can afford a $150 bottle of wine you can afford to lay an additional 15-30 down in the tip... If not order a $50 bottle of wine and leave an appropriate tip...
2007-02-01 02:54:46 · answer #10 · answered by AvidBeerDrinker 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋