If you are, or have been, waitstaff & agree with this please retweet. Maybe it'll make a difference.
First a little about pay rate:
Waitstaff in the US have a minium wage of $2.13 an hour. If they don't meet $7.25 hourly for a week then the employer makes up the difference.
First a little about pay rate:
Waitstaff in the US have a minium wage of $2.13 an hour. If they don't meet $7.25 hourly for a week then the employer makes up the difference.
This means that the waiter/waitress that's taking care of you is dependant on your tips to be able to make a livable wage.
If you get waited on, you are agreeing to exchange your money for that service.
If you don't believe this system is fair & that it should fall to the
If you get waited on, you are agreeing to exchange your money for that service.
If you don't believe this system is fair & that it should fall to the
employer to pay the waitstaff a liveable wage then please get your food to go & ask to speak with a manager to lodge your complaint about the pay rate of the waitstaff. Please, do not stiff or under tip your waiter/waitress in protest. That doesn't affect the owner, it only hurts
the person waiting on you.
Now a bit about tipping in 2019:
The baseline at this point in time for your tip should be 20% for good service. Yes that is up for the 15% of a few years ago, & it's up form 10% of the 90s.
Waitstaff don't live in a different world.
Now a bit about tipping in 2019:
The baseline at this point in time for your tip should be 20% for good service. Yes that is up for the 15% of a few years ago, & it's up form 10% of the 90s.
Waitstaff don't live in a different world.
The food, drink, rent, utilities, etc, etc, that they pay has increased just like yours have, hence the raising of the baseline tip percentage.
Again, if you disagree, feel free to let management know & get it to go.
If your service was good & under tip or don't tip its
Again, if you disagree, feel free to let management know & get it to go.
If your service was good & under tip or don't tip its
tantamount to theft.
Could this system be done better? Absolutely. We could have a dialog at the beginning of the meal where our expectations of service & the amount we wish to tip are outlined. We could have the hourly wage raised so you can tip less. Though if we did
Could this system be done better? Absolutely. We could have a dialog at the beginning of the meal where our expectations of service & the amount we wish to tip are outlined. We could have the hourly wage raised so you can tip less. Though if we did
that, then the cost of your meal would climb drastically because the owner needs to make money too.
Please remember that if the human being waiting on you is prompt, courteous, & attentive they DESERVE a 20% tip on anything you consumed at that table.
Also, your friend's tipping
Please remember that if the human being waiting on you is prompt, courteous, & attentive they DESERVE a 20% tip on anything you consumed at that table.
Also, your friend's tipping
doesn't exempt you from tipping.
I know it's a rant, & I know plenty of people won't agree with me.
I also know if you disagree you're not someone I care to ever dine out with because I'll end up covering your tip as well as mine out of embarrassment.
I know it's a rant, & I know plenty of people won't agree with me.
I also know if you disagree you're not someone I care to ever dine out with because I'll end up covering your tip as well as mine out of embarrassment.
