From the article: Tipping Etiquette
What do you think of the amounts in the tipping guide? Too low, too high? It's your turn to voice your opinion. What should guests tip at hotels? (Registration is NOT required.) How much should you tip?
Tipping in a more rational manner
- In the tipping world, most service professionals would say that while there are certain guidelines, most are not followed. Moreover, tipping procedure can be inconsistent and almost "class based" For instance, tipping procedures for hosekeepers is 1 to 2 dollars a day, yet 1 in 10 guests will tip a hosekeeper if they are lucky. Even though the average housekeeper at a nice hotel spends twenty to thirty, labor intense, minutes on a normal sized room, while the waitress at the restaurant the night before that you gave 20 bucks for mediocre service managed to service five other tables, moving at a rather casual pace, in the same amount of time. Tips for as vallet at a restaurant can be left when you leave, but why do the same at a hotel? If you only tip when you leave, the morning guy will be tipped double for only doing half the work, if you arrived at night. Isn't splitting it more fair? I say forget the rules and regulations. Tip Rationally.
- —Guest anonymous
Tipping servers and others
- While servers can at times make a pretty penny at a nice restaurant, some servers don't earn it and some do. I say consider the service you are getting, and possibly take the establishment into account. If a restaurant has inexpensive food that is above expectations and you get good service, overtip. Why? because others don't. If the service is mediocre and your bill is high, go lower, there is no reason to overpay for something that doesn't meet your expecations. Save it for someone who deserves it. As far as tipping on wine is concerned, just take into account what the server did do. If they worked hard to help you pick out just the right wine for you and your dinner, take that into account, if you just ordered it, and they showed up with the bottle, then provided a sloppy wine service, Don't.
- —Guest Stuffuff
Stop w(h)ining
- Interesting comments. I enjoy a good dinner out, but these "absolutes" mentioned must be tempered. TIP - To Ensure Promptness (NOT, to give high school grads $20+/ hour jobs) 1. Many servers work very hard for tips. Some - even 4- and 5-star resorts, do NOT. 2. Not all servers watch our wine glass. I've had the wrong drink/bad bottle brought to my table, and then waited a good 20-30 minutes for the waiter to get his *** to the table. And, he NEVER checked on my meal - in Palm Beach! His only concern? His 20% for nothing. 3. Give single dining women the same service as men. We won't tip well (fulfilling your pre-conceived opinion of us) if you don't. Want a good tip? EARN IT, or we WILL stay home...and invite our friends to join us! I tip well, but, lousy service? Bring your personal issues to work? Don't expect us to "pay your electric bill". 4. Ongoing "chatter" on "great" wines. Most restaurant-served wine is NOT top shelf, but rather $8-25 jacked up 3x +20%
- —Guest Dining for dollars
Tipping on wine
- I have been reading many articles on tipping for expensive wines and I'm still not sure what to do. I am also a restaurant manager. I think it is ridiculous to tip 15 to 20% on an expensive wine. All they do is get it off the shelf and open it. All the restaurants I have worked at, nobody tips out on bottles of wine. You tip the bartendar bar sales minus the btls of wine, and bussers total sales minus bar sales. I understand you get taxed on this, but if the people are buying a nice btl of wine. You will probably be compensated well being tipped on the rest of the bill.
- —Guest Aces and Jacks
Server's Tip
- You wrote that a tip should be 15-20% excluding wine. However, employers turn in a percentage of TOTAL sales as what the server makes. So the 15% of the entire bill might be claimed and taxed but you recomend only tipping partial.
- —Guest Brooke
