THIS!!!!! Once you've been a waiter you will forever be a good tipper. Most people have NO IDEA what goes on behind the dining room in order to make their stay exceptional. Out on the floor I'm cool as can be, the moment I turn the corner into the kitchen ITS GAME ON. I'm like the tazmanian devil trying to be as efficient as possible. Every second counts. Every step counts. EVERY MOVEMENT COUNTS.
This aint a putting yourself in their shoes situation. So no it's easy to still not tip.
My bad...been meaning to post this for a while but it's a lot so I've been putting it off. Make of this what you will. Separate post coming.
To me there's no poison about it. This is how it should be. After that it's up to you if you want to pay that much to dine out.
But this would never work. You can't just pay the servers a flat rate. Then there would be no incentive to work hard or go above and beyond for the customer. Servers would all want the easy station with 3 tables instead of 5 in it. Every server would only do "waht is expected of them", instead of trying to excel. Servers would intentionally go MUCH slower since they are paid hourly. The tables wouldn't turn over as fast and productivity/revenue would plummet. Some servers suck, so they'd still get paid the same as servers that are wowing their customers. Prices of entrees would be RIDICULOUS. And you wouldn't be able to get a better price because your server sucked.
So much truth here. And once you get good at waiting, you can sense a bad tipper a mile away.
i feel ya, but i'm not big on that whole sensing part. you could have a first timer who comes in and presents themselves in whatever way may correctly or incorrectly give of the perception of a bad tipper and because of that their service off the bad isn't up to par and come to find out their a decent tipper.
Your second paragraph echoes everything we've been saying. It only makes sense. ALL MY CUSTOMERS GET SERVED, but good tippers get better rolls because I pick the BEST out of the drawer one by one instead of grabbing the first 5 I see. That's just the FIRST step in a LONG LINE of preferential treatments good tippers get. If the food isn't perfect, like ******ed perfect, I have it made again. The list of other things I do for good tippers is endless, truly endless. Low/non tippers? Bare minimum.
Im not talking about stereotypes. It's more about how a customer presents himself, carries himself, speaks. If they are all uncomfortable from the very second I greet them, can't make eye contact, is VISIBLY uncomfortable....there are endless tells. YOu can just smell the bad tip coming, regardless of demographic. If I walk up to an all black table, most servers cringe thinking "here we go, they're gonna be hard to serve, easily angered, ordering only off the appetizer menu, and they're gonna tip bad". I DONT DO THIS
I don't get crap service though. I actually never said I got crap service so I don't tip.
i can't blame you on the bare minimum part one bit at all.
no tip for pickup. You're just telling them to make the food and then getting it yourself. They're not really doing extra work.
Why would it never work? Prices raise all the time at the grocery store and when ppl don't have coupons to buy their cereal and steaks they don't buy them or they bite the bullet and pay. The increase entree price is not an argument. You're either willing to pay or you're not. I mean you gonna act like some restaurants aren't already adding gratuity to the bill and then waiters still expecting to get tipped?
This just that fear argument. I mean I probably wouldn't part take in any of that if I had to assume all of these ppl were scumbags and not professional in their jobs. I gotta pay you to stay on your good side just in case what? You do something to my food? Any ppl like that deserve to be in prison. Just straight up warped sense of morality.
See you said you wont expect tips if your doing terribly. You shouldnt expect it really if your just doing your job either even though you will prbably get a tip by customers but you shouldnt expect it for serving a person 2 drinks or bringing out their plates
That is the thing. I expect them to do their job regardless of if I tip or not and I'm 100% sure the business owner would agree
Prostituion was just an example. The point should be clear.
See this is where you're ****** up. This is not how it is in any profession. If a cop doesn't get a tip for doing his job he's not gonna stop doing his job. Defense attorneys don't quit cuz their clients don't tip them. That's not how it works. They get paid to do their job to the best of their abilities. Sure they can get by doing half assed work but eventually that'll be noticed by their superiors and they'll get fired or regulated to work worthy of their effort.
It's not my fault you choose to accept unfair wages.
Well I can say as this much, for what I was selling at the prices I was selling them and as much as I was selling the job simply didn't add up income wise. You can say it's cuz I wasn't good at it but like I said we all have our own choices. You may get bumps and incentives in working for commission (and that's from your employer) but you do not get tips for it. I was just stressing a simple thing to understand, that if you're doing work not proportional to your pay it's up to you whether you're gonna accept that or not. I chose not to accept it.
You're wrong. That's not what I'm rationalizing. I don't tip because I do not believe ppl deserve to be paid for doing their job. You get paid by your employer to do your job. Just because your job involves serving a customer/client that pays for what you're serving does not mean you deserve to be given money by those being served on top of that.
