tipping

yup

well now that I am BETTER INFORMED, that Harper's Index factoid seems less astonishing
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID15166/images/the_more_you_know2(1).jpg

it's still astonishing in the big picture, we have some people who are so good at growing food that everyone else just gets to sit at desks or walk around and do things for other people all day, and somehow it works out

leaving susan b anthony and sacajawea dollars at a bar as a tip: too much?

The only complaint I've ever heard is when you give them a handful of coins while ordering a drink at a busy bar. Otherwise, it's all legal tender.

Whenever my mom got dollar coins as waitressing tips, she would hoard them away in a sock, which I never understood at all. So if you're giving them to people like my mom, you're giving them money they'll never spend. I think it's unusual behavior, though.

I pulled the whole two-dollar bill thing for awhile. I knew when I was going out, I was going to tip, and I knew that I was going to tip more than one dollar. Might as well save room in my wallet.

I picked up a bunch of dollar coins at one point for tipping and random use. May do so again, but it won't be as cool as the ones I got with Millard Fillmore on them.

"Excellent service, have two Fillmores!"
"wtf"

haha. fill your pockets, son, with these fillmores.

I'm rollin' with the Franklins! (Franklin Pierces, that is!)

Whenever my mom got dollar coins as waitressing tips, she would hoard them away in a sock, which I never understood at all.

a sock full of coins makes a handy cosh/blackjack for smacking bad tippers

"Feel the weight of the 20 percent you should have given me!" *bammo*

i went to a strip club in new mexico once that gave you change in $2 bills.

I still haven't figured out what you at strip clubs in Canada, where $1 and $2 coins exist but no bills

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/42/146574106_cc0a0c64df_z.jpg?zz=1

nsfw

surmounter is a bad tipper

how much to tip at a waxing appointment?

also I was wondering if it's ok to just ask "what do people normally tip?" if you're paying at the front counter or whatever

yeah it totally is. or just call ahead and ask.

for a salon service like that i'd tip 15% - 25%, but no less than $10.

i love it when people ask me that, it means i might get a tip.

http://gawker.com/5925465/family-fulfills-deceased-mans-dying-wish-purchase-a-pizza-and-give-the-server-a-500-tip

30-year-old Aaron Collins passed away last week, leaving behind one final wish for his family: To go have a pizza and leave the waiter or waitress a $500.

As Aaron sadly had no money with which to fulfill his wish, the family started a website to solicit donations. After just a few days, they reached their goal and headed out to Puccini's to make Aaron's last wish come true.

In the video's description, Aaron's brother Seth writes:

We think he just wanted to provide a random act of kindness and generosity for someone he thought was under appreciated; the kind of thing that would make a lasting impact they would never forget.

And the family's not done yet: They are still accepting donations, and say they will do this again "each time we have $500."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP-TOI1mO0A

awww

if my parents do that they better use their own money and not crowdsource it!

making me tear up!

i quit my delivery job btw, now i am broke but happy but eventually sad because i'm broke.

I hope there's some requirement that the server gives good service. Wouldn't want to reward some surly asshole.

tip on pre or post tax figure?

always thought it was on the post-tax but noticed the other day on the bill it had a suggested amount, which was 20% of the pre-tax

tipping is a feeling

Huh, I've always gone with post-tax just because that's the big number at the bottom of the check. I guess pre-tax probably makes more sense in the abstract, but, eh, servers gotta pay tax on stuff too, I don't mind the difference. Or is there really high tax on food where you are? It seems like 15-20% of 5-10% is kind of a trivial number, compared to the price of the food.

tipping is on pre-tax, but generally the kind of people who care aren't tipping so well anyway

Sorry to revive this.

Anyway, I buy coffee at a local coffee shop. Two bags, in which I ask them to ground for french press. Total comes in to about $42. On top of that, they give me a free coffee drink, which I usually get a latte. How much would you tip on this?

Hmm. I don't buy bulk coffee so I'm not sure. The grinding is something they kind of normally do, but feels a little "extra" right? My gut would say to tip something around the price of what the free drink would have cost.

If the grinding is something they normally do for customers as a service, I don't think it needs to be tipped at all tbqh

Never apologise for reviving this thread! I love it!

Anag, wouldn't making coffee be "something they normally do for customers as a service"?

(By which I mean, isn't a tip most often applied to things done normally as part of a service? And then an extra special big tip applied to something extra / especially good?)

My gut would say to tip something around the price of what the free drink would have cost.

maybe a little less than this but otm. a couple bucks at least.

my instinct is not to tip for the ground beans because mentally i think of that as 'groceries', oddly

"mentally i think" uh haha

mentalist

Actually, it was $32 this morning. Price seems to go up and down each time.

if i get a $12 haircut in the US, i give the guy $15, right?

I'm guessing most customers just go for whole bean, so it does feel like extra. I did $3 this morning. Will probably do $4 next time.

yeah, for a total of $27 xp

$3-4 sounds pretty all right, I can't imagine complaining seeing three bucks go in the tip jar!

Would you tip a butcher?

Maybe if he gave you a free turkey leg at the end.

To me the little-freebie is just a nice little opportunity for a moment of recognition between customer and employee - - - you get something you would have bought anyway, the money you would have paid for it leaves your wallet anyway, but both people involved feel like they stepped out of robotically carrying out formal transactions and "gave" something to the other. It's nice.

really feel like half the time I over-tip, especially when doing so after paying by credit card at restaurants, and under-tip other times. hope the universe averages these out when tallying my karma

caek buddy my tip is to shell out a little more for a haircut

My butchers (who hand out gratis stock/dog bones to those who need them) have a tip jar. If I got, say, £2.65 in change, the 65 pence goes in the jar. They generally tape a one-sheet, bold-type political screed onto this jar, about the suckage of the UK government etc. It's like reading the fevered thoughts of a non-racist, Murdoch-hating cab driver.

yeah he seemed kind of unimpressed but was a v low key guy so it was hard to tell. i will fix it next time.

I meant to bump this, not to ask but to tell: if I am carrying four cases of Penta water you just spent $100 on to your car a block away and you don't even give me a dollar, you are a disgusting savage.