Why should you or anyone have to sit here and give people reasons to tip? The reasons are obvious! If you don’t know why you are supposed to tip a server or delivery driver, you probably don’t know why you are expected to give up your seat on the bus to elderly/handicapped/pregnant people. Use your common sense!

People who indiscriminately neglect tipping are rude, narcissistic, cheap, presumptuous, and/or dumb. I don’t care if you have a doctorate in science or a liberal arts degree in basket weaving. If you can’t figure out the purpose of a service fee, I’m done explaining it to you. And the people defending their stance of not tipping here know it’s wrong and that is why they are trying to come up with reasons to defend it. If they really believed what they were saying, they wouldn’t feel the need to do so. And you know what? I’m not going to argue with them! No tip? Fine. Have fun being human trash. 

What happens?

Submitted by Kara

Above and Beyond

Something that people don’t realize who have never worked in this industry is that the percentage tip is merely a launch pad. You should always tip 15 or 20% for excellent service, but remember that sometimes, you really need to tip more. For example, if there are 4 of you, and you are eating 2 entrées, a 20% tip is not probably going to cover the work that the server had to do to keep you all happy. The bill is too low. If you hang out for 3 1/2 hours talking about how much you love pina colladas and getting caught in the rain, the server just missed out on at least 2 tables in that time, so tip better to make up for his/her lost income. If you are a pain in the a**. Look, I love mustard, pickles, extra cheese, tomato, onion, mayo, bbq sauce, ketchup, hollandaise, pico de gallo, and pesto on my burger as much as anyone else, but if you need something super dooper over specifically special, you need to tip more. Also, if you drink 35 glasses of water, or if your kid leaves a ring of destruction around the highchair….

This list could go on and on. Just remember, if you are anything different, unusual, special, unique or…challenging, tip more.

Thanks! 

Submitted by MrsMontoya

Anonymous asked: How much do we tip to make the roaming musicians, singers, entertainers, etc. stay the fuck away from our table?

If you tip them they never, ever, leave.

Saw a post where it said “You don’t tip on pickup.”  Do you think that order just magically put itself together?  The second someone picks up the phone to take your order a service begins and it ends with your food packaged with all the extra sh*t you aksed for. You would tip a bartender for cracking a beer but yet where I work it’s routine for corporate douchebags to leave the goose egg on a $100 order that personally took me 20 minutes to put together. Putting together takeout is part of my job as a server (which pays $2.89 an hour) so when someone does not tip on a pickup order I am providing that service for free. I would like to walk into a lawyers office and ask them to work on a case for free.

Submitted by Richie

Anonymous asked: My wife insists on tipping based on the regular price of a meal/drinks when getting a happy hour or some other discount. For example, if a happy hour with discounts off appetizers and drinks and would normally cost $20 and the bill comes out to $15, she wants to base the tip off of the $20. Does it make me cheap to just pay the 20% on the lower price?

Yes, always tip on the full amount if you’re getting hooked up with some sort of deal. 

British Indiana Jones

I was working in the French Alps four years ago as a private chef in a holiday chalet. One week, a large family came to stay, the dad was the most obnoxious guy you could imagine, and insisted on wearing some lame Indiana Jones style hat all the time.

After a week of cooking Breakfast, Lunch and Five course Evening meal for this family; beginning work at 6am and finishing in the evening at 11pm, the guests left.

As the family were walking out the door the Indiana Jones man placed €0.40 (56 US cents) in my hand as a “thank you” for the week, which I handed it straight back to him.

Submitted by Sam

Anonymous asked: Firstly I would like to thank you for this blog! I am an Aussie who has recently re-located to Manhattan and the minefield that is tipping! Coming from the service industry back home I can certainly appreciate a good tip, but in Aus tipping is not really the done thing so here I am with a million questions on the etiquette of tipping! I have two main dilemmas at the moment:

1) Do I tip my dry cleaner who does my wash and fold?

2) I tip my barista at starbucks but why not the poor teenagers who work at McDonalds or other chain stores?

I would also like to issue a formal apology to my delivery drivers, i thought $2 per delivery was the done thing! I have seen the light and will rectify my ways!

I like to tip my laundry place. They washed my underwear.

Fast food places have different policies than restaurants, and cafes. Also I don’t ever eat at them, so I don’t have an answer.

Anonymous asked: What do you say to the argument that servers should be tipped a higher percentage than delivery persons? Most times, this argument amounts to multitasking, smiling, refilling beverages, checking up on people, etc. and that delivery people "only" bring the food.

Just curious as to your take. Thanks.

Delivery people multitask, and smile. True, we don’t refile your beverages, but that’s the price for being lazy and watching tv while we bring you your food.

$20 tip

I once left a $20 tip for some girl at ihop for a $15 order.  Just b/c I was feeling generous.

Submitted by tippy