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Yesterday was not a very good tips day. One woman outright stiffed me on an order...which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, given that she was working in one of the biggest building complexes in town. It's not like she couldn't afford three frigging dollars for a fifteen dollar order. By the end of the day, I had made about $6, when if people had tipped 15%, I should have made $18. Poo. I was so annoyed that I finally went ahead and wrote a 500-word editorial to send in to the local paper. Maybe they'll run it, I dunno. Either way, it made me feel better.

An interesting discussion on tipping.

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From:

tryptophan.livejournal.com

I suppose thing are a little different here. Minimum wage in BC is $8/hour. You make that regardless. In addition, I already pay 14% sales tax before I tip, more if I drink. To this end, I generally tip 10%, more if service was really, really good and zip if the service was lousy. I'm also surprised the Labour Relations Board (or state equivalent)allows companies to pay less than minimum wage with the assumption that the employee will make up the difference in tips.

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izzylobo.livejournal.com

Waitstaff in the US are a weird category of employee, because tipping is so ingrained into the culture, so the wage laws are weird around them - and it varies a lot (fast food places pay minimum, or more; delivery places sometimes pay less, sometimes pay more. Waitstaff are almost always paid less, although three bucks an hour is pretty low).

How much I tip generally depends on the situation. In most cases, I tip twice the tax - which in Rochester means a 16% tip, *for a sitdown meal*. For other stuff - it depends a lot. Pizza and sub delivery generally get a buck plus the change part of the change, two bucks if it was fast service - otoh, when a friend was doing pizza delivery, for Pizza Hut, he was averaging six-seven deliveries an hour, and making seven bucks an hour from the Hutt, not counting a mileage per diem to cover normal wear and tear/gas/whatever on his car.

Other places that deliver get larger tips for the delivery guy, depending on the service, and the cost of the meal. I will admit I don't tip delivery guys as much as sit-down. OTOH, I'm also not expecting as much from them - get me my food, on time or early, without killing anyone.

If it's wrong, it's not your fault, and I don't take it out on you (and if the food is wrong in a restaurant, it *is*, to an extent, the wait-unit's fault - a really good waitstaff can look at a tray of meals, know exactly what table it's for (even if he or she is managing a dozen tables), who gets which plate, and what, if anything, is missing, or incorrect. Alas, such service is *really* hard to find these days). Although, otoh, if it's wrong, I expect it to be fixed, quickly, without hassle (unless I just don't care - If I ordered Chicken Makhani, and got Chicken Tikka, it really doesn't matter. If half my order is missing - that's another thing).