do we always give tips to waitress?

Answer 1

Unless something extraordinarily horrible occurs due to their service.

Answer 2

Yes, unless the service was TRULY horrid. And I mean horrid as in dirty table, food delivered cold or incorrectly multiple times, waitstaff acting very rude, or if the waiter doesn't come back after delivering your food and you have to wave them down. Even then, I'll usually leave at least 50 cents.

If you have rude service, always ask to speak to a manager, and realize that just because someone doesn't smile 24/7, it doesn't make them rude. Listen for tone of voice, that usually carries a better sense of warmth than a forced smile.

What a lot of people don't realize until they've worked food service is that tips are actually figured into a waitress's salary. When I was waitressing several years ago, I was paid a base wage of $2.20 per hour by the restaurant. The rest of my salary was dependant on tips. If I hadn't made enough by the end of the night to have an average of $5.20 per hour (the minimum wage then), then the restaurant paid the difference, but it was still very little pay for a lot of work. Working an unpopular shift, I was lucky to be able to walk out with an average of $7 or more an hour.

Basically, a tip goes a long way to showing what you thought of the service provided to you.

Answer 3

Yes, always tip your waitresses and bartenders. I tip 20% at least. Or...if the service is really horrible, I will still at least tip 10% as a base. Most waitresses make half of the minimum wage (or less) per hour, which means that they are counting on tips to push them over the minimum wage mark and pay them for all of their hard work. If you don't know whether you should tip...quit your day job and become a waiter or waitress for a couple of weeks and see how much work it is. Working 8, 10, or 12 hour shifts on your feet day after day can really take its toll on a body! If you do not have enough money to tip well when going out for dinner or drinks, then you should not go out and just eat and drink at home. You should figure in your tips for the total amount of money you are willing to spend before going out on the town.

Answer 4

Yes, wait staf has to rely on tips as they are terriably underpaid. You never leave a tip at a drive in or McDonalds type restraunt.

In a sit down cafe, 10% or $1 on a $10 check 15% if the service is really good

In an upscale restraunt 15% OR 20% if the service is good.

Of course, there is no upper limit on tipping.

If your service was truly horrid, ask to speak to the manager, but do NOT complain to the waitress, especially before you get your food!

When to leave no tip: When the service was horrid and you never, ever, plan to return there again.

If it is a place you will return, then I go ahead and leave 10% because I will be back there again, and they may have just been having a bad day!

Answer 5

You should always tip the wait staff at a sit-down restaurant (not counter service places such as Starbucks - despite their desperate pleas and obnoxious tip jars). In the US - where wait staff pay is very low (because tips are expected) - the tip should generally start at 15 percent - up to 20 or more, if the service or meal was particularly good.

Tips below 15 percent should only be given if service is very poor or some horrible thing happens and they refuse to do anything about it. Do not reduce the tip if the food is bad - the wait staff is not responsible for cooking. Accidents happen - if they drop something or do something they shouldn't, if they are apologetic and try to remedy the situation, you should not penalize them on the tip - perhaps you may not want to go above 15 percent, but they should not be penalized for what appears to be a one-off accident. You should only completely stiff the wait person if they are unforgiveable rude or horrendously mean to you. This should only happen under extraordinary conditions.

You people who say that you tip ONLY if the service is particularly good are unforgiveably cheap. Tips should start at 15 percent - stiffing the wait staff should be an extremely rare occurrence - I think that I have done it twice in the past 25 years.

Answer 6

Yes. Waitresses and Waiters are paid less than minimum wage because the expectation is that people will tips. Tips are taxable income by the IRS and more than half the money that the average waitperson brings home a night. Unless they openly insult you, ALWAYS tip at the very least, 10%. Normal service: 15%. Good service: 20%. If you don't want to tip, don't eat out!

Answer 7

Most servers depend on their tips for their livelihood.

Tipping is related to the the kind of service that the server gives the customer.

If the service is bad, such as not visiting your table to see if you need anything else, or gets mad if you want another drink or has an attitude, you deduct from your tip. The server may end up without a tip.

If the service is good, tip 15%, and if its supergood, tip 20%.
If the kitchen screws up your food order, the key here is how the server handles it. The screw up origniates with the kitchen, so you cannot blame the server. If the server is sincere in apolgizing for the screw up, give her a tip with no deduction, if not sincere, deduct from his tip.

If the service is good, and you don't tip, you are an embrassment to the person who you dine with and who tips.
Be assurred that they won't dine with you again. They think you are cheap. No one likes a cheapskate.

If you did not tip because you were short on funds, then go to Burger King or MacDonalds.

This answer is not from a server, but a customer of the server.

Answer 8

The answer is yes - it's customary to leave something for your server. The tip percentage can swing drastically depending on the type of restaurant you're dining in and the service you receive, but you should always leave something. Generally, it's between 10% to 20% or even more if you're really pleased, but the higher end places where multiple courses are served should demand at least 17-18% because of the workload your server is putting into your table.

Remember, minimum wage for anyone in the tipped service industry begins MUCH lower than the usual minimum wage, so you're literally helping them pay their bills. Two-something an hour barely pays taxes on what they have to claim in tips at the end of the night, so servers don't get much of a paycheck.

Answer 9

Yes. Don't want spit in your food the next time you go in there do you? Well, the probabally won't spit in your food, but most waiters work for much less that minimum wage because the resturants count on the customers to tip. It's not the fault of the waitstaff, that is the wage policy of most resturants. I never tip according to the bill, 15%, I tip based on what kind of job they do for me and my family when we dine. If they take good care of us, they get a good tip. If I have to wait on myself, then I keep the tip. I also do not like for the waiter to "beg" for a tip by coming over to the table every 45 seconds---there has to be a little balance. Remember, they have to put up with a lot of crap from hateful customers and serve people all day, that includes the little kids who's parents let them crumble up crackers all over the floor the just swept, and the do it for less money than they should have to. Tip, please.

Answer 10

Yes, because that is how they make money. It is a very hard job and they have to deal with a lot of crap so if they were a good waitress then leave a good tip.

Answer 11

i never tip for being ignored...waitresses should learn that women with their men will not let him tip if waitress flirts with him and gives sloppy or no service to her....if mama not happy no body happy...so keep mama happy....i have been known to take tip right out of a waitress hand .... she ignored me the whole time i was there i got my own drink