Awesome statement considering it is absolute bullshit.
No, tipping is never mandatory unless clearly stated in policy such as parties of 6-8 or more.
You are clearly confused in a restaurant's large party policy and the tipping standard.
Some restaurants have gone with mandatory tips for any size party to defuse the confusion
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Time-In-Prison--70426052.html
And you would be retarded to do that - because plenty of people such as my self wouldn't go to it on that principle alone. That is absolutely barbaric - and I am someone who tips more than the usual. However I reserve my right to give a big "Fuck you" if you sucked.
The problem is fortunately enough people tip to make sure they at least hit minimum wage. If they don't sure they can ask the boss for the difference, good luck getting hours the next week.
What happens is for every good night they have, a couple jokers like yourself ruin it by sometimes even under paying like backing an included tip out as if taxes were applied to it.
Perhaps you should move to those other places and leave America?
I don't get the latter part of #2. In most places it would be hard (and rude) to shout out for your waiter.
Most wait staff don't see this as a problem but as their way to do better to earn more. That is the essence of our tipping system. The food cost is much much lower as the wages of the staff are more or less bore by the patrons.
The patrons that are unhappy will likely complain or just tip the standard 15% for basic service (or in today's idiotic society think that the 15% is the maximum tip allowed and basic service is more like 5%).
People mistakeningly think that without tips, food costs would be just 15% higher. They are very wrong.
You are clearly confused in a restaurant's large party policy and the tipping standard.
Some restaurants have gone with mandatory tips for any size party to defuse the confusion
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Time-In-Prison--70426052.html
So basically the owner exploits them, potentially doing something illegal, and we are the ones who are supposed to save them from it?
And what about the people who claim they get paid only $2 an hour if no one leaves a tip? Leave this BS unchallenged?
So according to your logic nothing people don't like should ever be changed. Instead, they should just move to a place that already has the change implemented. Good thing no reformer followed that logic, like ever.
By call out I didn't mean shout for the waiter, but attract their attention in some way.
Pure nonsense. This tipping subject is one of the #1 topics in ATOT and every once in a while you hear service staff talking about how they were wronged in the news, an apparently unique happening in the USA.
The economic argument is BS too. What's the point of lower food costs if you have a minimum tip of 15% regardless of service, as many argue - a minimum that constantly is increasing?
Food in a restaurant costs as much as the patrons are willing to pay - it's like any other business. It doesn't necessarily mean restaurants are going to amp up costs by more than 15% if the system were changed to be like the rest of the world.
Grossly inefficient. Everyone except the restaurant owner gets shafted in this system.
a 2010 Daewoo?
in europe you can't even tip without cash.
Nah, a Cutlass Supreme, bro. I pick up all the chicks.
Just returned from Bermuda. 5 days.
Ate Lunch and dinner at 10 different places. (5 and 5 before comments start) .
Every place adds 15 to 18% automatically. Now I am usually an 18 to 20% tiper...
NOPE.... Not with the AUTO tip...... Screw you for removing my voice for bad service.
I WONDER would is your recourse? Compalin to the manager? And WHAT does he do? Comp you a drink? Anyone have experiance?
That's your right. However; 15% is expected for basic service. If you haven't talked to the manager less than that is not right.
This is why (especially down here with all the dumbass Canadians) many restaurants are posting "15% Tip Mandatory" (or more commonly 18%).
Down where, exactly? Waitstaff in TX frequently use the term "Canadian" as a euphemism for african americans (whom they accuse of tipping poorly.)
But I grew up in MI, where we have a lot of actual Canadians, who seem to tip normally.
So I'm just looking for a bit of clarification.
You are clearly confused in a restaurant's large party policy and the tipping standard.
Some restaurants have gone with mandatory tips for any size party to defuse the confusion
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Time-In-Prison--70426052.html
Down where, exactly? Waitstaff in TX frequently use the term "Canadian" as a euphemism for african americans (whom they accuse of tipping poorly.)
But I grew up in MI, where we have a lot of actual Canadians, who seem to tip normally.
So I'm just looking for a bit of clarification.
What the manager does is up to them...if you had truly bad service why would you not talk to the manager?
From WalMart and the Golden Corral.
Certainly a cut above where you pick up your sloppy chicks from.