cause if you treat your bartenders right, most of them will make sure your drinks are strong enough and they wont ignore you for 5 minutes before asking what you want. I know a bartender who will make your drink weaker if you dont tip them. my basic rules of tipping. If someone has to come by and bring you stuff(waitresses,etc)...tip If all the do is give you wehat you want across a counter...no tip If someone goes beyond their job duties while serving you...tip the only exception is bartenders...and thats only so I can taste the booze in my drinks.
All I have to say is this: What is up with tipping at Subway and other restaurants? Hell some places just take your order at a counter and expect you to leave a tip. Why? Now I get to feel bad because I dont give people an extra buck?? Bullsh!t.... Its one thing for bartenders and servers whose salary is PART of the tip..... Its another thing for sandwich artists and order takers...
Another question I had is tipping movers? Is this the norm? I recently moved and did NOT give the movers a tip. There was a couple reasons for this. It took SIX HOURS to move a 1 BR apartment to my new place about 15 minutes away. That seems pretty slow to me. The total cost for moving was almost $600, which was $200-$300 more than I was expecting. Plus, they broke a fan, which wasn't a big deal but was still worth about $30. When they were done I could tell they were trying to get a tip by being all nice, but I just felt that I already paid way too much. Does anyone else tip movers? How much?
It's an easy way for a shop to make a little extra money. It's free and doesn't take any effort to stick a jar or something of the sort out and ask for tips. You know that some of the customers during the day will undoubtably toss in some money. In my opinion, shops are stupid not to do that. Granted, I'm just as picky as the rest of you on who I tip and who I don't. Waiters/waitresses at 15% as long as they do a half way decent job, a couple bucks to the bartender and the pizza boy, and a buck to the barber. If I get pennies back and I'm in a good mood, I might toss them into the tip jar at a counter where I ordered something.
Mrs. JB, On the double! Give me the exact ingredients and measurements for a coffee frapuccino. I've found a lot on the Internet, but can't seem to recreate the exact taste. Thanks in advance.
I swear to God, I have no idea what's in those things. They introduced the Frapuccino the last month I worked there (mid-1995). All I remember is that it came pre-made in little cartons. We just had to pour it in the Vita-Mix blender and add ice. I'm pretty sure it's laced with crack though, because we were all instantly addicted. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
I generally tip about $10, but it will definitely change for exceptionally good or bad work/service. I think pay varies, but tips are a big part of the salary.
From American Psycho: "Do you tip the shampoo girl?" "Did you get a b*** j**?" "No." "Then you don't tip her."
I agree with JV, French or otherwise, that tipping should be abolished. It is such as unfair and annoying business practice, second only to car dealer haggling. Services should be paid for at a straight price. Servers should be paid a decent compensation fit for the job by their employers, not the by the customers.
If tipping were abolished, the price of food in restaurants or drinks in bars would go up (because now the restaurant/bar is taking the money that would normally be tipped to server/bartender and adding it to the cost of service, because they now have to pay their employees a much higher base salary.) If tipping were abolished, that would seriously hurt the people who normally never tip, because they'd now have to pay $12 for a meal that they would normally pay $10 for (assuming no tip). A person with a $10 meal who normally tips $2 would not be hurt at all. However, if waiters got paid a flat fee with no possibility of a tip, their quality of service would definitely go down somewhat. I know for a fact that people who don't tip get atrocious service the next time they visit the same restaurant or bar, so if waiters know they can't be tipped, they won't try as hard. For those reasons, it will be hard to abolish tipping in the restaurant/bar industry.
Those are not necessarily bad things. If most other people tip and you don't, then of course you get worse service. But if nobody tips, then the quality of service will not be motivated by tips. There are other things that can motivate quality of work. We know that because most professions don't have tips as incentives but still have highly motivated people. If tipping is abolished, then the pressure of making sure the service is good is on the owners. They will find ways to motivate their employees to do a good job in order to stay in competition.
Mrs. JB knows her coffee. She has saved me a lot of money. I was addicted to Starbucks, even buying it at home. Still buy it around town. In a best cheap coffee thread she suggest Choc Full of Nuts. We use it at home. It was good enough to replace Starbucks at home, though I do miss the strong "burnt" taste at times.
Wow, you paid way too much. The last time I moved, I used Tomball movers and they charged $250 for about 4.5 hours of work. They did a great job and I tipped them $10 each so they could get lunch.
I think that it is the norm to pay movers. Its been awhile since I've moved but I think that $10-$20 per mover is reasonable. I did have an upright piano moved to my house fairly recently though. It took them about five minutes and I didn't tip them. i felt a little bad about it afterwards.
