I know other countries have different ideas on tipping, but here in the USA tipping is huge.
I was reading an article on yahoo the other day about a pizza delivery guy who delivered 85 pizzas totalling almost $1,500, and the people gave him a $10 tip. Now in a restaurant no one would dare leave that small of a tip on that kind of bill. I don't think he deserved the 15-20% tip, but $10? How many trips did he have to make to bring 85 pizzas to the door of the house.
I like reading the replies from people after reading the story, and most of the replies discusted me. Someone starting talking about counter tip jars for various places. The replies were...get a real job...I'm not gonna tip you for doing nothing...who cares if you make minimum wage it's not my problem...go to college...etc...
No one was talking about waitresses really, mostly just other places, like I said counter tip jars, or people at the restaurant who put together your meal for takeout. So after reading for about an hour I saw replies from people working in this places, saying what they have to do, what they get paid, and some even said putting your food together for takeout is much more time consuming than just delivering plates to a table.
Then some people chimmed in and said to those people who don't tip that they were in college, but had to have a job to pay for college and bills, some said they had masters degrees but in this economy had to take a minimum wage (or less) job.
So after this long winded post (I just wanted to add as much information as possible) what do you think about tipping...
1. waitresses
2. counter people who put together your food for takeout
3. coffee shops
4. deli workers who take your order, make your food and cash you out
5. delivery people
I was reading an article on yahoo the other day about a pizza delivery guy who delivered 85 pizzas totalling almost $1,500, and the people gave him a $10 tip. Now in a restaurant no one would dare leave that small of a tip on that kind of bill. I don't think he deserved the 15-20% tip, but $10? How many trips did he have to make to bring 85 pizzas to the door of the house.
I like reading the replies from people after reading the story, and most of the replies discusted me. Someone starting talking about counter tip jars for various places. The replies were...get a real job...I'm not gonna tip you for doing nothing...who cares if you make minimum wage it's not my problem...go to college...etc...
No one was talking about waitresses really, mostly just other places, like I said counter tip jars, or people at the restaurant who put together your meal for takeout. So after reading for about an hour I saw replies from people working in this places, saying what they have to do, what they get paid, and some even said putting your food together for takeout is much more time consuming than just delivering plates to a table.
Then some people chimmed in and said to those people who don't tip that they were in college, but had to have a job to pay for college and bills, some said they had masters degrees but in this economy had to take a minimum wage (or less) job.
So after this long winded post (I just wanted to add as much information as possible) what do you think about tipping...
1. waitresses
2. counter people who put together your food for takeout
3. coffee shops
4. deli workers who take your order, make your food and cash you out
5. delivery people