re: Millennials are the worst when it comes to tipping

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Two of the OT's favorite subjects in one thread.

Millennials and tipping

all we need is an injection of early morning grass-cutting and a cop shooting

and somethin somethin Gravy

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and pit bulls

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It isn’t Scruffy’s job to pay the worker’s wages.

It is the restaurant owner/manager’s job.

Pay them an actual wage. Tips are a “bonus” and should not be included in the calculation of a worker’s paycheck.

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I think the whole tipping thing should disappear, but until it does I toe the line and tip these service industry folks fairly.

Its such a great feeling paying for meals in countries without tipping.

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It shouldn't be my job to pay your employee.

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...and people like you will be the first ones bitching up a storm when restaurants have to raise food prices to pay their employees like you want.

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and people like you will be the first ones bitching up a storm when restaurants have to raise food prices to pay their employees like you want.

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Or butch to the manager about poor service

20% is the standard?
I thought it was 18.5

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Who decided tipping 20% is standard?

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lynxcat

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This is what Im wondering. Ive always thought tipping 20% was going above the norm.

No Canadians are.

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Not a millennial here, and I, too, must have missed the newspaper article that 20% is the standard.

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Been that way for at least a decade. When I was being trained in my first serving job in college, that was part of our training - interpreting and learning from the tips you receive.

10% = Poor service
15% = Average
20% = Good service
Anything above 20% = Excellent service

Basically, any time you tip less than 20%, you’re telling your server they weren’t good enough. I spent a lot of time in college wondering what I had done wrong to cause a table to only tip 10-15% or whatever. In reality, it was more likely they just didn’t know any better - but it was still incredibly frustrating.

Something else to consider - servers are responsible for “tipping out” the bartender and busers. Usually around 3-5% of total sales. That means when people don’t tip, the servers are literally paying out of their own pocket to serve the table.

Ya, it's rather apparent which people in this thread have never worked in the service industry.

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The younger crowd won’t remember this but 15% use to be what was considered the appropriate tip.

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15% is still pretty standard. A lot of restaurants like to do the “suggested tip” at the bottom and show 18% 20% and 22-25%. Trying to get their employees paid in tips and not wages I guess.

15-18% is standard for me. 20%+ for exceptional service. Garbage service gets less.