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re: Has 20% become the new standard for tipping?
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:00 pm to liz18lsu
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:00 pm to liz18lsu
quote:I guess I am lucky I don't get bad service very often. If service is poor I will absolutely leave little to no tip. If it is excellent I will give more. I also will cut the server some slack if they are super busy and that effects the service.
These days, service usually sucks.
This post was edited on 7/7/18 at 11:02 pm
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Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:02 pm to Ponchy Tiger
I gave a $50 tip recently because she was cute and gave good service.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:06 pm to browl
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Two couples. Two drinks apiece, some hors d ouevres and salads or small plates, four main dishes, four or more sides, a couple desserts, and coffee. That's a $400 ticket, and I'm being generous. Fifteen percent is 60 dollars. Give up your 5 percent tipout, that's 40 for the table take home. You said you'd have a 4 table section, and you mean to tell me you couldn't serve 6 four tops (and some deuces) between 5 and 10 and take home 250 or more? C'mon dude.
Vast majority of guest tables at a high end place like that are couples. Either business dinners or date nights. Then consider the amount of time a full course meal takes to complete - on average about an hour and a half - and that’s if they eat, drink, and leave. So adjust those numbers and see what you come up with.
Also, we’re talking AVERAGE server take home. Sure, as a trainer at a top end restaurant, I had some pretty decent nights of $200+. That’s far from average - even on the weekend at a normal restaurant.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:11 pm to liz18lsu
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I gave a $50 tip recently because she was cute and gave good service.
Hmmmm interesting
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:16 pm to Ponchy Tiger
I like cute girls and good service
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:23 pm to liz18lsu
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I like cute girls and good service
As do I
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:57 pm to tigerstripedjacket
Quality of service has gone down and quantity of tip has gone up. Hahaha screw that 20% shite. Unless it’s amazing service, they get 15%
Posted on 7/7/18 at 11:59 pm to tigerstripedjacket
Its a freebie to business owners and servers alike.
I just wish they were capable of earning a regular wage like the rest of employed America.
I just wish they were capable of earning a regular wage like the rest of employed America.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 7:41 am to LSUAngelHere1
They make less than half of minimum wage.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 7:43 am to tigerstripedjacket
Yes, welcomes to the 21st century. Just wait until you ditch your dial-up modem.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:11 am to tigerstripedjacket
Customers have to pay for the food and for the employees wages while the restaurant makes bank...the consumer is getting fricked
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:14 am to El Batnaros
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while the restaurant makes bank
Profit margins are super thin in the restaurant industry. A shite ton of restaurants go out of business every year, so I doubt many of them are "making bank".
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:18 am to notiger1997
So the customer should split the bill on the restaurant’s employees to keep them in business?
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:19 am to El Batnaros
Nobody is forcing you to go out to eat. This is just how the industry works in this country.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:25 am to notiger1997
FWIW it's been almost 10 years, but $1000 sales night was a good night as a server and that was at a turn and burn $20ish a plate place. $1250 was a great night, and something like July 4th weekend some did $1800+. On a Tuesday most did around $750.
Nowadays $1250 is probably a good night. You take some restaurants in busy tourist areas like Nola and Destin with $25/ dish turn and burn as in not fine dining, $1500-2000 nights is probably fairly common for the 'lifers' -servers for life.
I usually averaged about 15% take home after tip outs. Hot chicks and theives got 20% take home on the ref. $250-300 weekend nights happen but not regularly.
Eta: my 2 week paychecks in the summer when I was hustling working 45+ hour weeks which was 5 nights and 2 lunches, was usually about $50-60 lol. That was $3.15 wage if I remember right after taxes, the company auto did my credit card tip income I usually did like $15/ night for cash tips.
Nowadays $1250 is probably a good night. You take some restaurants in busy tourist areas like Nola and Destin with $25/ dish turn and burn as in not fine dining, $1500-2000 nights is probably fairly common for the 'lifers' -servers for life.
I usually averaged about 15% take home after tip outs. Hot chicks and theives got 20% take home on the ref. $250-300 weekend nights happen but not regularly.
Eta: my 2 week paychecks in the summer when I was hustling working 45+ hour weeks which was 5 nights and 2 lunches, was usually about $50-60 lol. That was $3.15 wage if I remember right after taxes, the company auto did my credit card tip income I usually did like $15/ night for cash tips.
This post was edited on 7/8/18 at 8:30 am
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:38 am to liz18lsu
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These days, service usually sucks.
Sorry you only eat at shitty places.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:42 am to notiger1997
This is how I always knew the restaurant owner was a scum bag, overtime pay. When I was making $2.15-$3.15 an hour, I worked for a couple of idiots that wouldn't let you work overtime. As a business owner myself now, it's still laughable. An extra $1/ hour for a qualified person that wants to hustle is pennies on the dollar what they will return to you. Instead you pay some lazy lowlife that's barely working 20 hours a week to work that extra shift. Never makes sense.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:43 am to notiger1997
Why don’t restaurant owners go up 10% on food prices and just pay servers a set wage. They can leave service survey cards on the table so you can rate service.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:46 am to Imtheonly1
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Why don’t restaurant owners go up 10% on food prices and just pay servers a set wage. They can leave service survey cards on the table so you can rate service.
They would probably have to go up more than 10%. Let's face it, in our country the work ethic isn't great and you aren't going to get someone to show up all the time for their shifts and provide good service for $10 an hour pay.
I guess it could work at your low end places, but nicer places will need to have incentive's/pay to reward good servers.
Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:49 am to tigerstripedjacket
It has been 20% for some time now. I believe we have tipped 20% for the last 4 years at least.
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