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Originally Posted by No Ego Thanks
While this has its logic, I am not sure how accurate the assumption that tipping ensures you all those services is. Experience? it's been agreed? or just a guess?
I go out of my way to do all sorts of extra services for anyone who I know tips me well, especially if that person is a regular customer.
Some examples:
Let them hang around after the bar closes with the staff for another drink or two
If I have the time, I've gone back to the kitchen and sliced up cucumber to garnish gin and tonics for a couple guys (it was a college pub and your usual garnish options were limes or lemons)
I've got my manager to bring in special bottles of booze that we didn't normally carry just for them
I've sold them a couple uncracked beers to take home so they had booze at their house for girls they were bringing home (illegal here)
Will absolutely give them the first service when there are long lineups
Talk them up for girls, or just send a couple fruity promo shots to girls and say it was courtesy of 'those guys' (usually only for the more shy/awkward type guys)
The list could go on