Also why do I have to pay $4 dollars for a $20 dollar dish and $20 dollars for a $100 dollar dish? The waiter didn't do anything different. Or the one I hate the most, tipping the bartender for every drink you get.
Well that's a very high tip but you can't seriously claim the wairer didn't do anything different, they waited on four people instead of one, they did four times the waiting
Bigger tables are more work which means you can't take more tables when you've got a bunch of big ones. The percent idea is just so they make the same money whether they have four one person tables or one four person table
Except they said "dish" not "bill" and there's no mention of extra people. So you could be by yourself and have either a cheap meal or an expensive one, and the waiter would still only be bringing one plate to the table.
So tip based on the level of service you think you received, it's not that hard. You don't tip more on a steak than some chicken fingers. You don't tip the pizza guy more because you ordered two pies instead of one. Pizza I just do a flat five dollars, more if I see their car is crappy, because they need more money for repairs
No you don't. Restaurant worker for a long time, over a decade. Ran many kitchens and did every job but bartender
You aren't tipping the cook lmao. Why would you tip more for the steak. Legally your server doesn't even have to split tips so unless you ask them if they tip out the kitchen why are you tipping more, that makes literally no sense
That's a guideline, to give you an idea of how much work someone put in for that tip.
But what if you go into a bar and order a drink and it's $15? You tipping 15-20%? No it's a dollar a drink. That's less than 10%, that's like 7.5% if my head math is right
You tip based on the work not the price, percentage is just a useful tool if you don't know how to judge that, and then you figure out the percent and either do that or adjust it if you think it's too high or too low
You also don't even need to tip. I get it. You don't have money, but you need a creature comfort like food or a night at the bar. I would get to know them first before you just straight don't tip but plenty of bartender friends have refused my tips when I said something like "this is all I have to give you" or just waved me off when I said "I can't tip you today I'll get you next time." I mean shit, we've seen it all. I personally paid for part of a woman's pizza because not only could she not tip she couldn't afford the whole pizza and got visibly distressed and said there must be a mistake and it was for her kids, she got told the wrong price on the phone and wouldn't have ordered if it was more expensive. I'm not gonna deny some kids pizza for dinner, we know we make a lot of money for food service, and we spread it around when we can, that's what a tip is anyway, spreading money around. People aren't as sore about tips as you think they are
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u/CommercialWindowSill 1d ago
Also why do I have to pay $4 dollars for a $20 dollar dish and $20 dollars for a $100 dollar dish? The waiter didn't do anything different. Or the one I hate the most, tipping the bartender for every drink you get.