Ok so this morning on the way to work I was listening to The Morning Jones on Sirius and he got to talking about tipping. At that moment it threw all kind of sparks in my head. At what point in time did a tip become something that was supposed to happen regardless? I mean don’t get me wrong, I am typically a 20% tipper. I know the standard is like 15% or something, but I just do 20% because the match is easy. Take 10% and double it. I can do that! Hell if I am eating something and the bill is less than $10, I just throw $2 as the tip cause I just don’t have time to think that much. At the heart of it though, is that I do the 20% regardless of service. Why?
There are two different types of people I am really thinking about, the restaurant server and the pizza man. They are completely different so I’ll look at each separately. First off the server, is not a job I am unfamiliar with before all you servers (or former ones) jump down my throat. I’ve done it before! Now I understand the servers only make like $2.35/hr now and depends on customers to make up the difference. The biggest problem is with “The Man” who basically says that you all don’t get to make as much as others. I found out today in Canada, that their servers make minimum wage regardless of tips. The government is slacking on ya’ll! Second if you are depending on customers to make up the difference, shouldn’t you always do your job to the best of your ability to receive the funds you want from me? If you come to my table 5 times and keep forgetting something do you really think that I am receiving the best possible service? I know you got other stuff going on, but is that really my concern? Its ok a couple of times but at some point I need to have things that I need. If your service is bad and someone gives you 10% don’t look at that person awkward. Blame the person paying you $2.35/hr and yourself!
And the pizza man!!! Oh how the internet has totally messed you up! Want to know who you can blame for people tipping bad? Your employer! How can a pizza man look at someone sideways when a person orders a $12 pizza that ends up costing $16 because their job wants to add a $2.00 delivery charge. And what’s worse is that they don’t give the driver that money, they are just pocketing it! And then on top of that, they want the same tip as a restaurant server! WTH!!!???? You got in the car and brought me my pizza! As my man said on the radio this morning, “You know what that’s called? YOUR JOB!!!” You aren’t even paid $2.35/hr so I don’t know what your issue is!
Ok everyone can stop hating me now! Just a quick rant! It is funny though, how folks seem to be forgetting that working in a service industry actually requires some of it!
Tags: Bad Service, Bomani Jones, Morning Jones, Tipping
March 18, 2010 at 10:32 pm |
HA! I SO do the take 10% and double it because I don’t wanna do the math thing! I thought that was just a weird quirk of mine lol. Anyway, I used to debate about this too: to tip, or not to tip. I used to think that tipping was something that you have to earn, and if you do a bad job then I don’t tip. However, someone explained it to me this way, and now I tip all the time. He said that you tip because you are being “served.” You know, they are waiting on you like a maid/butler would. So, because they make squat and their livelihood depends on the tips we should tip regardless of how the service is. Sometimes what he does when he gets bad service is gives them a ridiculously large tip, puts it in their hand, looks the in the eyes, and says, “you don’t deserve this,” and leaves! So, I tip now, but of course with this whole serving thing, now whenever I go to a place my struggle is do I NEED to tip them or not. For example, don’t the folks at Steak ‘n Shake make minimum wage? But yet people tip them because they are being served. I’m like you with the pizza man and the delivery charge analogy. If you make minimum wage then you are getting paid. You serving me is “extra” and just your bad that they make you do that LOL. Am I wrong for that?
March 18, 2010 at 10:56 pm |
Coming from a waitress… it is a reward. Most think right because most waitresses make only $2.13 an hour. BUT if the service sucks then the tip should reflect. The only thing I hate is when the service is great & still no tip. Working (formally) for Dennys on graveyard shift (bar rushes) too many drunks come in (no the best part of town) & think … See Morethat they can treat you like crap & not tip & you’re supposed to smile & kiss ass… yeah right, like that will happen. We (waitresses) have actually given people their tips back ($1.00 on a $75.00 tab with 4 people) or chased them out of building because they decided to tell us we weren’t getting tipped after they trashed the place, tried to treat us like hookers, started a brawl etc…
March 19, 2010 at 7:50 am |
Our government and our restaurants are absolutely ridiculous. I worked as a waitress while going through college (many, many years ago), in California. I made minimum wage. I think if our servers made minimum wage from their employer, the tip would really be a tip.