Tipping at various locations (1 Viewer)

[Harry Manback]

McDonald's workers make minimum wage. I don't tip there.

So does a hostess.

HTH

No they don't.

Yes they do.

As someone who worked in restaurants to put myself through college, I can tell you that you're wrong. My experience was in the "fine dining" setting. I worked at Texas de Brazil for a couple of months once. There wasn't a single restaurant where I worked that paid their hostesses minimum wage, so, no they don't. You're delusional.

As someone who worked in restaurants to put myself through college, I can tell you that you're wrong. My experience was in the "fine dining" setting. I worked at Applebees for a couple of months once. There wasn't a single restaurant where I worked that didn't pay their hostesses minimum wage, so, yes, they do. You're delusional.

I think this may be state specific.

So? Am I supposed to adjust my actions based on another state? Or was I simply stating that in my experience, hostesses make minimum wage, which is why I hesitate to tip on carry out?

 

[avoiding injuries]

My experience in the food industry, also to put myself through college (drinking money), has me siding with Harry.

Sorry, but mom and dad didn't pay for my education.

Don't be angry because you're wrong. I've noticed something about you. There isn't an interaction you've had with anyone on this board that is positive.

 

[parasaurolophus]

These threads crack me up. It is a well known fact a server at the olive garden makes more money than a worker at mcdonalds. You are a hypocrite if you criticize somebody for not tipping for takeout but you don't tip fast food.

Not really. It's 2 different situations. You don't have to tip on takeout, but you're being a cheap ### if you don't. I don't eat much fast food, but if I do, Sonic is one of the places I prefer. I always tip the car hops at least 20%.

Then you are a cheap ### if you don't tip at burger king or subway.

The situations are different. Cashiers stand there and take your money. Someone else puts your food on a tray. You're a complete moron if you can't see the difference.

You basically just summed up take out at any chain restaurant and I am the moron? Just sub out tray with bag and cashier with bartender/hostess/server.

You are a pretty funny dude.

So, you're only including chain restaurants. Well, I guess I'll continue to stand by my statement, because you don't know what you're talking about.

Carry out only climbed to as high as 5% of sales for fine dining establishments in the last year. So your "fine dining" experience putting yourself through college basically meant you may have encountered carry out like one time in your life.

I am starting to wonder if you actually ever worked at a restaurant, let alone a fine dining establishment.

 

[SproutDaddy]

My experience in the food industry, also to put myself through college (drinking money), has me siding with Harry.

Sorry, but mom and dad didn't pay for my education.

Don't be angry because you're wrong.I've noticed something about you. There isn't an interaction you've had with anyone on this board that is positive.

Proof that I'm wrong......where is it?

And I'm sorry you feel that way. Maybe the internet me isn't a very likable guy. Maybe it's my alter-ego.

 

[psychobillies]

Bunch of cheap asses in here. I usually tip $1-$4 for takeout.

Whoa, look at this high roller.

If it's just me grabbing a $12 meal to go then what am I supposed to tip?

LOL But we're cheap asses for tipping nothing on takeout, and you are high and mighty because you drop a buck.

You people realize the hostess does 100% of the takeout stuff at the majority of restaurants, yes? A hostess not only gets tipped out by the waiters, but they also make at least minimum wage.

That means they make as much as the schlep behind the counter and Burger King, if not more with tips. To all you hypocrites, do you tip at Burger King/McDonald's/Five Guys?

The majority of take out I get is put together by the bartender, or a waitress.

Wow, you are getting owned in here. Bet you didn't see that coming. If you want to tip for picking up take out fine. But don't create these arbitrary and fluid justifications for why that is somehow different than tipping any other service provider that does te same work (bagging, taking your cash). It doesn't hold up.

No. No I didn't see it coming. Thanks for pointing out my shame. I can only hope that my kids don't grow up and see this terrible humiliation that you have shed such a bright light on. I hope that they can learn that if someone bags up your food and brings it to you that you should absolutely show no gratitude. That they should take that $2 and spend it on themselves, and make sure those overpaid minimum wage suckers learn to get a real job. Losers.

 

[SproutDaddy]

These threads crack me up. It is a well known fact a server at the olive garden makes more money than a worker at mcdonalds. You are a hypocrite if you criticize somebody for not tipping for takeout but you don't tip fast food.

Not really. It's 2 different situations. You don't have to tip on takeout, but you're being a cheap ### if you don't. I don't eat much fast food, but if I do, Sonic is one of the places I prefer. I always tip the car hops at least 20%.

Then you are a cheap ### if you don't tip at burger king or subway.

The situations are different. Cashiers stand there and take your money. Someone else puts your food on a tray. You're a complete moron if you can't see the difference.

You basically just summed up take out at any chain restaurant and I am the moron? Just sub out tray with bag and cashier with bartender/hostess/server.

You are a pretty funny dude.

So, you're only including chain restaurants. Well, I guess I'll continue to stand by my statement, because you don't know what you're talking about.

Carry out only climbed to as high as 5% of sales for fine dining establishments in the last year. So your "fine dining" experience putting yourself through college basically meant you may have encountered carry out like one time in your life.

I am starting to wonder if you actually ever worked at a restaurant, let alone a fine dining establishment.

Hey, you have the right to believe what you want. That doesn't mean that you're right. Do you have any restaurant experience?

I don't know where you got that %. I don't even know how someone could come up with anything near accurate for this subject in a non-corporate restaurant, but whatever. I'll explain how this works in a fine dining establishment.

One of two scenarios takes place. The customer will call in to the establishment or the will come in and sit at the bar. Either way, the bartender will generally handle the ringing in of the purchase, and will most definitely handle payment. The order comes into the kitchen. In the kitchen, their will be an expo. This person might be a server that alternates this position with their fellow servers. This person will retrieve all necessary compartments, cutlery, condiments, etc for the kitchen staff. They will be the last line of defense to make sure everything is how it should before bagging it and taking it to the bartender. The expo works for tips as well. Typically they make $2.13 an hour like a server, but in some establishments I've seen them paid up to $5 an hour. The expo's tips are 99% of the time based off the sales of the bartenders and servers. Very, very rarely will it be based off the accrued tips. It's unfortunate that restaurant owners don't pay their employees more, but hey, that's how our capitalistic society works.

 

[Harry Manback]

Bunch of cheap asses in here. I usually tip $1-$4 for takeout.

Whoa, look at this high roller.

If it's just me grabbing a $12 meal to go then what am I supposed to tip?

LOL But we're cheap asses for tipping nothing on takeout, and you are high and mighty because you drop a buck.

You people realize the hostess does 100% of the takeout stuff at the majority of restaurants, yes? A hostess not only gets tipped out by the waiters, but they also make at least minimum wage.

That means they make as much as the schlep behind the counter and Burger King, if not more with tips. To all you hypocrites, do you tip at Burger King/McDonald's/Five Guys?

The majority of take out I get is put together by the bartender, or a waitress.

Wow, you are getting owned in here. Bet you didn't see that coming. If you want to tip for picking up take out fine. But don't create these arbitrary and fluid justifications for why that is somehow different than tipping any other service provider that does te same work (bagging, taking your cash). It doesn't hold up.

No. No I didn't see it coming. Thanks for pointing out my shame. I can only hope that my kids don't grow up and see this terrible humiliation that you have shed such a bright light on. I hope that they can learn that if someone bags up your food and brings it to you that you should absolutely show no gratitude. That they should take that $2 and spend it on themselves, and make sure those overpaid minimum wage suckers learn to get a real job. Losers.

Are you going to tip Zoonation for pointing that out or are you going to be a selfish ##### about it?

 

[psychobillies]

Bunch of cheap asses in here. I usually tip $1-$4 for takeout.

Whoa, look at this high roller.

If it's just me grabbing a $12 meal to go then what am I supposed to tip?

LOL But we're cheap asses for tipping nothing on takeout, and you are high and mighty because you drop a buck.

You people realize the hostess does 100% of the takeout stuff at the majority of restaurants, yes? A hostess not only gets tipped out by the waiters, but they also make at least minimum wage.

That means they make as much as the schlep behind the counter and Burger King, if not more with tips. To all you hypocrites, do you tip at Burger King/McDonald's/Five Guys?

The majority of take out I get is put together by the bartender, or a waitress.

Wow, you are getting owned in here. Bet you didn't see that coming. If you want to tip for picking up take out fine. But don't create these arbitrary and fluid justifications for why that is somehow different than tipping any other service provider that does te same work (bagging, taking your cash). It doesn't hold up.

No. No I didn't see it coming. Thanks for pointing out my shame. I can only hope that my kids don't grow up and see this terrible humiliation that you have shed such a bright light on. I hope that they can learn that if someone bags up your food and brings it to you that you should absolutely show no gratitude. That they should take that $2 and spend it on themselves, and make sure those overpaid minimum wage suckers learn to get a real job. Losers.

Are you going to tip Zoonation for pointing that out or are you going to be a selfish ##### about it?

Screw that. Tell his dumb ### to go to college if he wants to make money. I'm not made of cash.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Joe's Crab Shack Drops Tipping

By Lisa McLaughlin on November 10, 2015

Over the past few years the topic of tipping has been heating up. High end restaurants like Sushi Yasuda, Per Se, French Laundry, Chez Panisse and Alinea have long abandoned the system in favor of paying staff a fairer base wage. And Danny Meyer announced last month that he would be abolishing tipping in all of the restaurants in his USHG, beginning with The Modern this month.

This week Joe’s Crab Shack became perhaps the first full service chain to experiment with the no tipping model. At 18 locations through the end of the year, servers have been switched to a wage of at least $14 an hour (up from $2.13) and customers have been alerted that they are no longer expected to tip. The money to pay the staff the higher wage is being generated by a price increase of 12 percent to 15 percent.

Interesting that the raise for the staff thru the price increase is less than the average tip.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

What's great for them is that some people will tip anyways.

 

[Mr. Ected]

What's great for them is that some people will tip anyways.

You're right; I may still tip some, just not the amount I normally would. Especially if they do something like bring a dessert out for a kids b-day.

You also wonder if the pay raises are continued to everyone. Normally don't the waitstaff share portions of their tips with others that assist them? If so, won't their wages fall if there are no tips?

 

[parasaurolophus]

Hey, you have the right to believe what you want. That doesn't mean that you're right. Do you have any restaurant experience?


I don't know where you got that %. I don't even know how someone could come up with anything near accurate for this subject in a non-corporate restaurant, but whatever. I'll explain how this works in a fine dining establishment.

One of two scenarios takes place. The customer will call in to the establishment or the will come in and sit at the bar. Either way, the bartender will generally handle the ringing in of the purchase, and will most definitely handle payment. The order comes into the kitchen. In the kitchen, their will be an expo. This person might be a server that alternates this position with their fellow servers. This person will retrieve all necessary compartments, cutlery, condiments, etc for the kitchen staff. They will be the last line of defense to make sure everything is how it should before bagging it and taking it to the bartender. The expo works for tips as well. Typically they make $2.13 an hour like a server, but in some establishments I've seen them paid up to $5 an hour. The expo's tips are 99% of the time based off the sales of the bartenders and servers. Very, very rarely will it be based off the accrued tips. It's unfortunate that restaurant owners don't pay their employees more, but hey, that's how our capitalistic society works.

You need to stop pretending as if you know how the restaurant industry "typically" works. You clearly don't understand much of what you claim to, so you decided to switch gears in this thread and act as if carry out is common in "fine dining" and that this somehow puts you at an upper level of understanding and us lower level people that assume if you are talking about carry out, you are most likely talking about casual dining.

If your restaurant does a lot of carry out business, it probably isn't a fine dining establishment. I am rolling at your suggestion of the guy gathering up mustard packets and throwing them in the bag with the spork for the fine dining carry out.

The first restaurant I worked at in Florida didnt pay expos tip wage and by law I dont think they could be included in a pool. Quick google search leads me to believe that this is still the case.

When I worked at a hotel restaurant in Milwaukee, the expo was included in the tip pool, but was paid a higher wage than minimum wage and was allowed to be in the pool because they also handled a lot of room service which got them a decent sum of tips.

When I bartended in Wisconsin the expos were never included in the tip pool.

Now you mentioned the expos being a rotation of servers at the carry out chinese place you worked, er I mean fine dining place, but this is not usually the norm and probably the only reason they were allowed in the tip pool since a large % of their time would have been customer facing still. This is hardly the norm though.

Google "fine dining carryout" and you will find how recent of a phenomenon it is and how small of a practice it is.

I can just see the new steakhouses where when you get carryout you get to pick the special plastic knife you want and leaving 2 bucks gets you excellent service and makes you a high roller.

 

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$25 signature haircut at midscale men's salon (not great cuts or sportsclips or anything like that).  Trim job... not a new style or anything

Do you hand her $30 or $35? 

Discuss. 

 

[NCCommish]

$25 signature haircut at midscale men's salon (not great cuts or sportsclips or anything like that).  Trim job... not a new style or anything

Do you hand her $30 or $35? 

Discuss. 

Going 30 here. 20% seems like plenty for a trim.

 

[IC FBGCav]

$25 signature haircut at midscale men's salon (not great cuts or sportsclips or anything like that).  Trim job... not a new style or anything

Do you hand her $30 or $35? 

Discuss. 

I tip 20 for haircuts.  

 

[IC FBGCav]

Plus she does wash my hair with eucalyptus shampoo.