That patience may be wearing thin, if the amount of tips people are leaving is any indication.
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With Biden's rampant inflation in full swing, I'm surprised people can still afford to go out to eat.
Hell, with the price of gas lately, I'm surprised they can afford to drive to a restaurant.
Wife and I have been eating out at least once a week since pandemic started. We used to NEVER eat out. Wanted to "do our part" to help the businesses and especially servers. I've gotten to where I tip better than I used to because I've felt (rightly or wrongly) the staff were giving us better service than in previous days. So we "rotate" through 4 restaurants in our area and we go to one of them each week and start over after the 4. A young girl applied for a kennel position I had available and she was a busgirl at one of the restaurants. When I introduced myself to her, she looked at me and said "oh, you're the good tipper" Apparently that's my reputation, at least in the place she worked. Might be why we always got good service. The beer never runs out and my wife's always got a marguerite in front of her.
ReplyDeleteNot really mentioned in the article is that much more often than in the past you get terrible service. "oh we're short staffed". Oh so i get a discount? no, wait.
ReplyDeleteI mean i appreciate the restaurant owner's problems, but I don't care. It's not my problem. I'm paying the same price for an expected experience and if I don't get that expected experience well, it's not unreasonable for me not to tip as well.
If I get too many less than expected experiences, than I won't return. I can be ignored at McD's, I don't need to pay $100 for the privileged of being ignored.
It 's going to get worse as prices go up (which they must do, restaurants must be getting killed by food costs). The cost went up to the end consumer, they are going to be less forgiving of bad or non-existent service.
I don't tip the waiter because of the restaurant's 'expected service', I tip the waiter because of HIS or HER's service.
DeleteIf the restaurant sucks, I just don't go back.
I'm not sure what 'expected experiences you want in a restaurant, though. All I want is good food delivered in a timely manner. I understand that wait times vary according to the time of day, so if it takes a little longer at 6 PM and the place is busy, I'm good with that.
I can only afford BK with a discount coupon.
ReplyDeleteI mostly cook at home anyway, except chicken. Whole barbecued chickens are $3.99 where I shop. Can't beat that with a stick, except I'm growing feathers.
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I generally will tip in cash (if warranted). The server gets the cash, the IRS can go fuck itself with a barbed-wire wrapped, hot sauce drenched square dildo.
ReplyDeleteSame here.
DeleteHaving been a waiter way back in the day, I usually tip 20% for decent service and 25 to 30% for great or exceptional service. And I'll tip 10% for takeout if I have to go pick it up and 20% for delivery.
ReplyDeleteNot mentioned in the article, because it would be hard to quantify, are the cash tips. The data is from digital payment where the customer adds the tip on the credit card. Often, I'll write down 0 tip and tip the server in cash.
I always tip in cash. Fuck the IRS.
DeleteOdd headline, the amount is pretty close to 19% end to end, excepting some small bumps when perhaps people were being kinder to the workers in the worst waves of the deadliest plague of our lives.
ReplyDeleteIf they'd set the vertical axis to start at zero they wouldn't be able to write this nothingburger.
I won't eat food unless I know where it came from and how it was prepared (Jesse Jackson sound familiar?). Since I stopped eating out *anywhere* - not because I'm stingy - and started eating healthier at home, my cholesterol, weight, and blood pressure all went down to normal. No fast food, no junk food, no hidden fat/calories put in by restaurant chefs for me.
ReplyDeleteWonderful, so now I'm gonna hafta live through all this tribulation ...
the last two years all we hears was to be generous when you tipped. All the restaurants did was add service and delivery fees plus more delivery fees if you used Craphub for delivery. if they don't show some tits and a smile they will get 2019 tip amounts.
ReplyDeleteI always tip in cash too, Kenny. I live in a small town with restaurants and two drive thru convenience stores for feed and booze and what not. always tip them too. Small town fUsA is where it's at now.
ReplyDeleteOhio Guy