After a particularly frustrating night at work at my job as a waitress I have decided to give some tips on tipping.
Tip on What Your Bill Would Have Been: if you have items taken off your bill because the management comps something that came out wrong, or if you have a gift card- please remember to tip on the
original amount. Nothing is more frustrating when someone gets a 30$ item comped because it was not exactly to their liking, gets something else in it's place that is also free and doesn't remember to add that to their bill.
Don't Camp if you aren't going to tip: If you plan on sitting and chatting for hours, please try to do it during the non-busy hours, but if you must come at 730 and end up staying for more than an hour and a half- please tip extra. We don't get any tables, we usually have a small section and if you stay for extended periods of time, it is taking away from other customers sitting there. So please, just add a few more dollars.
"Verbal"Tipping Does not Count: Do not be really nice to your waitress and think that is good enough. Don't be nice to her if you think there is a problem- tell her, so she can have it fixed. Your food took too long? No problem we can get you some gift cards [at my restaurant anyway] Wasn't what you wanted, no problem- you'll probably get it for free, and we will make you something else. Verbal tipping won't pay our bills, that would be like your boss saying "Instead of paying you this week- i promise to not bother you as much" that wouldn't be fair to you, and it isn't fair to your server.
Tip 20% minimum: here's why- we don't make minimum wage, we make roughly 2-3$ an hour, and it is not easy work. So please, unless you have exceptionally bad service and you have spoken to management and know it is your
server's fault- tip at least 20%. Leaving your server 20$ on a 400$ check will not show management anything- they don't see our tips and they could probably care less.
What percentage do you tip usually? If you are a server, what are some horror stories?
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