TIPS AT RESTAURANTS

[Otaking]

10% of the bill is kind of the standard here.
If it's good service I'll go up to 20%.

[FiftyQuid]

I almost always tip, provided the service was at least okay.
i can count on one had the times where i've stiffed, but those have been rare, and justified in my opinion.

I remember I went out for noodles one night with friends.  I arrived pretty late so I didn't bother ordering anything.  The waiter came over and asked me if I wanted anything so I asked for a beer.  He brought it out and I drank it while everyone else finished and waited to pay.  When I went to pay the guy I dropped a $5 for a $3.25 beer.  Not a huge tip, but the guy only had to walk 5 feet to get the beer and never offered me a glass.  He actually confronted me and said "You not leave me any tip?".  I was a bit surprised by the confrontation and said "No" even though it was untrue.  He actually got angry with me and started yelling at me in the restaurant.  I shoved myself away from him, left and I've never gone back.  When I was outside all I could think to myself was "What the f*ck just happened?"

In another instance, I was at a strip club.  To put my life into perspective I had just broken up with my girlfriend at the time.  I hooked up with a bud of mine and we started going out to the peelers.  When I say we started going out to the peelers, I mean almost every single night.  It got to the point where the strippers and waitresses knew our names.  The bouncers would comp us admission, and sometimes we wouldn't even watch the girls performing we'd sit in the back corner, watching the hockey game on the projection television and the girls would just sit with us and talk about their day.  Looking back at it now, it was pretty messed up.  However, we weren't really dropping a lot of coin at this place.  We were just hanging out.  We'd drink, and maybe get a dance now and again, but we were not dropping thousands, let alone hundreds except on really eff'd up nights.  Anyway, in regards to tipping, the beers at this place were $4.25.  Each time we ordered a round it would be $8.50 total and we'd throw the waitress $10.  So $1.50 each time.  We eventually got to know the waitress and she asked us why we were only giving her $1.50 tip.  We had never really thought about it since we sometimes had 10 beers/shots a night.  So our tip worked out to $11.50 by the end of the night each and every night.  Anyway, she actually called us cheapskates and we apologised to her and started tipping her a little more.  It paid off in the end since she started just dropping drinks off for us without asking.

[xelement5x]

Yea, I always tip for food, normally at least 20% but I'll do more or less depending on the service like others have said.  Very rarely do even need to do that, I've got pretty realistic standards for the job, and even all the stuff that's out of the wait staffs control.  (Too many tables, not enough people, slow kitchen, etc)

My wife was a waitress at Olive Garden when we were in college and the money from a nice tipper was always nice even if there were also plenty of weirdos.  I worked crappy retail so there were no tips, but having gone through it all I try and make it a bit easier for those who are working through that point in their life.

Other services I'm a bit on the fence about, like haircuts and such.  I'll leave a tip on my haircut if you get me out fast, but wasting my time while you go do other stuff just peeves me.  Just get me out in 20 minutes or less so I can go on with my day!

[kazekirifx]

yeah. everybody is satisfied, but the 980yen/hr employee :oops:

That's capitalism. If the employee doesn't like it, they are free to start a union, be unemployed or try to find a better job. The employer sets the salary according to whether or not enough people are willing to work for that amount. If the employees were really all dissatisfied, then nobody would be working there.

[Tatsujin]

there's nothing to say against this. but japanese aren't the best in forming unions, holding strikes and complaining about their working conditions, so it is just is how it is..lol.

[esteban]

yeah. everybody is satisfied, but the 980yen/hr employee :oops:

That's capitalism. If the employee doesn't like it, they are free to start a union, be unemployed or try to find a better job. The employer sets the salary according to whether or not enough people are willing to work for that amount. If the employees were really all dissatisfied, then nobody would be working there.

The power is clearly in the hands of the employers. The road to unionizing is difficult, and still doesn't solve many problems.

Just sayin'.

[CPTRAVE]

Recently my family and I went to Chili's and the food was awful including the service. My kids ordered grilled chicken from the kids menu, and you could literally count the fries they each got which was 6. Their chicken was so dried up they could pick it up with their hand and eat it. To me it looked broiled not grilled. I ordered the Margarita Chicken, talk about tasting bad and it was missing some food content that it normally comes with. I had to get the attention of another Hostess just for a refill of my kids drink. My wife ordered the same thing I did and was just as bad. I could have gone to Chick Fillet and ordered something similar and would have probably tasted better. What made it worse my stomach started hurting as soon as we left. As for the tip I left $2.00 out of a USD40.00 check. I filled out there survey immediately and wrote a letter to corporate including the Store Number 740.

[soop]

Recently my family and I went to Chili's and the food was awful including the service. My kids ordered grilled chicken from the kids menu, and you could literally count the fries they each got which was 6. Their chicken was so dried up they could pick it up with their hand and eat it. To me it looked broiled not grilled. I ordered the Margarita Chicken, talk about tasting bad and it was missing some food content that it normally comes with. I had to get the attention of another Hostess just for a refill of my kids drink. My wife ordered the same thing I did and was just as bad. I could have gone to Chick Fillet and ordered something similar and would have probably tasted better. What made it worse my stomach started hurting as soon as we left. As for the tip I left $2.00 out of a USD40.00 check. I filled out there survey immediately and wrote a letter to corporate including the Store Number 740.

whaaat?  Are you mental?  It's the English that are supposed to be total pussies when it comes to complaining, and I would have no problem getting them to recook my food there.

That's not a time for not tipping, that's a time for "prepare me another meal please, and if not I'll take my custom elsewhere".

Honestly, if you make your case without being a jerk, there's not many people who will agree that 6 fries and vulcanised chicken is a decent meal.

[esteban]

"vulcanized chicken" -- HA!