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At the salon where I get my hair cut, I pay with a credit card, and the person at the desk up front asks me, "Would you like to leave a tip?" And I say, "Yes." And he says, "How much?"
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, once when I worked in a small hotel, a couple who had been staying all week had noticed that I had waited, cleaned their rooms, served behind the bar, covered reception etc. The wife collared me in the TOILETS (!) to slip me a £20 tip which I was not to share with anyone on the grounds that I seemed to be single-handedly running the place.
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
What do you guys think the undertipped ratio is as regards in-house service vs delivery in the food service industry? I'm not sure why, but my gut tells me in-house are usually more often undertipped than delivery people.Not true at all! I delivered pizza for one of the big US chains when I was in college, and found that rather than a percentage, people tend to tip a specific dollar amount. Say the order was $20, you'd most likely get $2 from it. A lot of people don't tip at all, specifically Born-Again Christians (though I now have a good collection of Chick tracts), poor whites, poor blacks, realtors, and office managers (when delivering to offices). It's different being alone with someone on their turf—they can be as rude as they'd like and there's no societal pressure on them to make themselves look good. You guys in restaurants had it easy. Five dollar tips were considered good. We would also have to pay for our own gas and car maintenance. For each delivery we took, we got $.50 for gas, which in many cases wouldn't cover the distance there and back. To make up for this , we'd try to take more than one delivery at a time, if they're both going in the same direction and ordered at the same time. Oh, and if the cook fucks up, I have to make a second delivery FOR FREE (though if you're charming, you can turn a second-trip into a $5 tip). On a typical Saturday night, I'd make ~$75 for about 30 deliveries, putting about 105 miles on my car (but it's stop-and-go driving, so I was getting the low end of my Camry's fuel economy) so minus $12 for gas. And people ordered more and tipped less in bad weather. Fight nights and Bowl games were good, though.
While my single best tip ($50 for a $12 order) came from an older black lady who lived in a rough apartment complex), the best tippers tended to be single working mothers, liberals, fat people, and former servers/drivers. Drunk/stoned people were a mixed bag. I quickly learned the bartender trick: never carry coins or any bill larger than a one (if the bill is $15, and they hand you a twenty, you're more likely to see something back if you don't give them a $5).
Also, and I've mentioned this on a previous Mickey-complaining-about-tips thread, as a delivery driver I have had my car run off the road and into a guardrail, I have been mugged at gunpoint ($65 worth of tips gone), bitten by dogs, and threatened by more people who meant it than you could imagine.
― naus (naus), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link
to the tables who gave me really bad tips tonight after i gave them really bad service: i'm sorry. we were really understaffed tonight and i had way more work to do than i could possibly handle. i didn't mean to give you poor tips. thanks for complaining to the manager about me. it's nice to get feedback. no hard feelings, okay?
― hm (modestmickey), Saturday, 30 December 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
four years pass...
urgent tipping question: some guys are coming in an hour to clean and fix the gutters on our roof. $260 for the job. should we tip and if so how much??
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:51 AM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
one year passes...