Wow, way to ignore my post. So I'm childish, yet you'll make fun of someone's penis? Oh laud, you don't even want to go there, especially if the pic in the op is of yourself. I'm sure girls love that overgrown flavor saver? That is, until they find out your a douche bag who always complains about how low the tips he gets are and how he bought himself an hour to hang out with them because he was baller and spent a little bit extra for the fluff-and-fold?

happyhappyhappy - Finally! Your the smartest person I've ever heard from in the serving business.

good point, this completely escaped me for some reason.

1) meh, obviously $1/drink is standard, but there is a pretty obvious reason why it's acceptable to deviate from the norm. Now tell me, why is the onus on the person giving you money to give an extra 50% and not on you to accept 50% less? yah yah he could leave the $1 and take the quarters but lol who is gonna do that.

last i checked, i don't really give a **** what societal conventions dictate because since it's my money im gonna do whatever i ****ing deem is appropriate. god these threads piss me off so much and make me wanna avoid tipping altogether.

2) meh, depends on what level you take this, you can certainly pinch a few pennies in a lot of spots that will have no effect on the quality of your life just by not being a tard with your money.

4) so did you actually ever wash your laundry there by hand or are you just pulling #s out of your ass? Also how the **** couldn't you spend $50 on fluff and fold you cheap bastard! man wtf. cutting corners. now i think you are stupid for doing your laundry to save that little extra bit. see how a different perspective can change things a bit? not everyone is in the same financial position and can take the same liberties. for you, you can't afford $50, for them, they can't afford $20. so who's cheap now?

anyways you're looking at this from way to narrow a perspective as there are obviously various reasons why someone might tip a certain amount.

Please explain to me, that if I feel that it SHOULDN'T be $1/drink why I should tip $1/drink. Why?

Lots of opinions out there.

Some of this. If you call me cheap behind m back, do you really think I give a ****? Id tip well for SERVICE, if a bartender takes the time to actually talk to me and not just shove a beer at me, he or she will get a great tip.

Henry, I usually agree with you on most this but not the "rule" of tipping $1.50 on a beer to not carry change. I realize its different for us because we have a coin instead of a bill. I usually just open a tab, most places are more than happy when the see a black CC.

No, avatar is Bob Odenkirk from Mr. Show. It seems to annoy people like you, so I keep it. And I'm a baller? You spend my entire salary on drinks and tips. You, sir, are clearly the cs baller.

I dunno. For better service and to not look like a cheapskate in front of the bartender, other people, your date, etc? I mean, if you feel you SHOULDN'T tip at all for dinner, then don't. No one's holding a gun to your head.

This.

I hate how people think it should be customary for 20% tip for any kind of food/beverage service. Going to a restaurant and getting complimentary chips/salsa, then ordering an appetizer, then a meal, and getting a couple re-fills during the meal = 20% (+ or -) type tip.

Ordering a longneck and having the waitor hand it to you without spilling it or breaking it or calling you a racial epithet does not warrant 20%. It warrants leaving whatever sh*tty ass change they give me back because of their stupid pricing of $3.25 a beer or whatever. I hate change and I'm not leaving a dollar bill on top of a 300% marked-up beer* that you had to carry to me.

Most of your posts were fine though. Except yearh, your friend sounds pretty silly. Spending $35 to sleep with roaches off the strand instead of $50 is splitting hairs where hairs shouldn't be split. I probably would have covered the extra like you did, hoping he'd see how silly it was and give you back the $15.

Hah! Oh wow. It was already stated that he doesn't care, since it's HIS money. Plus what do I care if I look like a cheapstake in front of you or any other bartender? Especially if I'm with my gf why would SPENDING MORE ON YOU impress her? Why don't I buy her something or take her someplace nice? How would giving money to a rude bartender impress her? Keep going through life caring what other people think, I'm sure it will take you far.

Haha, don't you ****ing forget it, you pretentious schmuck.

Just wear a lower cut shirt if you want more tips.

That works for guys right?

Yeah but he's a licensed. You tip for that service. LoL!

Class.

Even with a tab I'm going to tip 30% and then round off to the nearest round number so we are not far from the $1.50.

The one I find worst of all was the friend who was willing to stay at Imperial Palace over $30. I would have cancelled the trip.

You know, I never realized how much people hated change before this thread. That's been enlightening at least.

Most certainly.

I was going to recommend schonwalder.org to you, seeing as that site set me on my way to getting to where I did (site made by a European who started in the restaurant business folding 3,000 napkins a day just so he could get a job at a nice place and work his way up), but now I notice that they charge for most things on that site that I found for free however many years ago that set me on my path to being better at my job.

But hey, since you aren't a cheapskate, I'm sure you will pay it so you can make more money in the long run.

Good luck.

Where's this rude bartender thing coming from? I'm a great bartender. And it sounds like you've never been on a date before, but in the real world, women pay attention to how much you tip, how you treat waitstaff etc.

Henry, you're class.


Thanks, I'll check it out.

If you were a great bartender you wouldn't be working in a ****ty mexican restaurant.

I've really had restraint on this topic in the past, but I've had a few drinks today, and for the good of every worthy restaurant worker, if you want to keep at it in this thread, I will be happy to tear you apart.

I'll always leave $1.50 in this situation, but I really do dislike it when a bar charges a non-whole dollar amount since you're pretty much charging me an extra dollar since I'm going to levae the change in addittion to my normal tip. Pretty cheap tactic imo for the bars to make themselves and their employees more money.

Yeah okay, I was in vegas with people from this forum, not to mention the people from student life who have seen my gf before. I treat the waitstaff amazingly well, btw, like I said earlier about tipping your salary. As already mentioned in this thread, I tip the service. Also think about what your saying. If the women you are with are paying more attention to how much you are tipping rather than you as a person then you also fail at women. I've not met a single woman who would prefer being money tipped away than spent on them. Just think about it for a second.

Anyone else think OP is a 25 year-old who just recently moved out of his parent's home?

Dude it's pretty much a two-horse race between you and OP as to who's the bigger douche in this thread.

Pro tip: Agreeing with Henry17 is not a good thing.

I'm not incredibly ambitious, one, and two, it's not a ****ty mexican place. It's kind of upscale-ish, although certainly not the most expensive restaurant in town. I am good at the job, and super-gracious to the guests, cheap or not.

And oooh, tear me apart? Go for it, Mr. I WAS A WAITER IN A SAVEUR TOP 20 RESTAURANT.

And whoever wins we all lose.

He is, IMO

Sorry Anacardo, we get too many of these tip threads, that I couldn't hold back anymore when the op started spouting of about his false sense of entitlement for people's money for minimum service, and how society dictates how we should spend our money.

If it was good enough, you wouldn't even had considered making this thread.

And yes, when I did this job, I was better at it than you and worked in a much nicer place than you currently do. What exactly are you saying? That you are a lazy piece of **** lacking motivation, who still feels the need to call people cheap and expect them to pay you well?

Seriously?