No tip with a tip
#16
Re: No tip with a tip
So do we tip to supplement poor wages? It seems unfair that factory workers and refuse collectors don't get this perk. Aren't fair wages a human right we try to protect (hence the legislated minimum wage)? How does tipping help? Or do we tip to reward good service? I'm confused
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Re: No tip with a tip
So do we tip to supplement poor wages? It seems unfair that factory workers and refuse collectors don't get this perk. Aren't fair wages a human right we try to protect (hence the legislated minimum wage)? How does tipping help? Or do we tip to reward good service? I'm confused
In a restaurant the staff are paid minimum wage and earn tips. The better time the customers have the more likely they are to tip and the more likely they are to come back and tip again.
The customer tops up the salesperson's wages but does not see it because the commission is built into the selling price. In a restaurant it is not and the whole thing is more transparent.
#20
Re: No tip with a tip
So...
It is the accepted norm that, if you don't tip, you deserve to have someone else's bodily fluid mixed into your food?
It is the accepted norm that, if you don't tip, you deserve to have someone else's bodily fluid mixed into your food?
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Re: No tip with a tip
Being a tight-arsed Brit, I believe people get a tip when they deserve one. If the service was better than average or if, as a customer, you've been hard work, fine, no problem tipping. People get paid for the job they do. If the wages are low, join a union or get another job. Tipping has soooo been taken out of context - it is now a reflection on the customer not the employee.
A tip should not be a given......do people tip bag packers in grocery stores, beer stores, your postal folk, cable person, gabbage folks or even people that do your oil change? Why is a restaurant any different?
#22
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Re: No tip with a tip
I concur....and the morons that took it upon themselves to bombard everyone with that name that has a facebook account
A tip should not be a given......do people tip bag packers in grocery stores, beer stores, your postal folk, cable person, gabbage folks or even people that do your oil change? Why is a restaurant any different?
A tip should not be a given......do people tip bag packers in grocery stores, beer stores, your postal folk, cable person, gabbage folks or even people that do your oil change? Why is a restaurant any different?
#24
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Do you tip the guy at Tims? Do you tip the guy at McDonalds? Or is there some kind of snobby heirarchy where you only tip at "proper" restaurants? Isn't that social discrimination?
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Re: No tip with a tip
we tip based on the amount of mess our child has made
#26
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Maybe you all just tip because you're scared - From what you've told me, it sounds like bribery/blackmail.
Do you tip the guy at Tims? Do you tip the guy at McDonalds? Or is there some kind of snobby heirarchy where you only tip at "proper" restaurants? Isn't that social discrimination?
Do you tip the guy at Tims? Do you tip the guy at McDonalds? Or is there some kind of snobby heirarchy where you only tip at "proper" restaurants? Isn't that social discrimination?
#27
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Re: No tip with a tip
No, because they don't wait on you. Neither are they restaurants. The use of the word "proper" is redundant here.
#30
Re: No tip with a tip
Is not tipping in the same league as choosing to fly Air Transhat or Thomas C*%t Airways?