Is 15% tip to a bartender an insult?

So, you would say that you are against tipping because ... alcohol?

Because he po with short money

We always tip between 20-30% at our favorite restaurants

Will do 20% on most of the time

The tip is for making them give you drinks first over the other alcoholics. Any tip is better than nothing. Inb4, they live off tips! That sounds super suspect/gay. Crap, here comes my ban. :D

Last time I was at a bar at the beach for vacation. I got a seat at the bar after my first beer ..I gave the bartender 20 dollar bill and said keep'em coming and make sure they are cold. Never had to wait, got a few beers for free.

It's easy to spot people who never had to work for tips.
Walk a mile in those shoes first. Work weekends when
the thumpers come from their worship services and see
first hand their stunning, Godlike compassion and generosity.
But stick around, the other slaves for tips will come by
and more than make up for it. It's called tip sharing.

Last Edited by hillbilly on 08/30/2019 10:27 PM

Here's a tip...get areal fucking job

When you're good at it, the tips can be a gold mine.
A real job? Where you get paid to sit around and pretend
you're actually adding value to the company?

They might even over pour yours and short theirs.

Last Edited by hillbilly on 08/30/2019 10:34 PM

I usually drop a nickle on the bar and tell them to buy Kodak stock.

How many times you been hit by flying nickels?
I dare you to come to Kingsport, Tennessee and pull that shit.
They'll tell you, or demonstrate, how far to stick Kodak up your ass.

Last Edited by hillbilly on 08/30/2019 11:08 PM

As a former cocktail waitress- I approve this message.
Very true.

LOVE what you did right there... class act.

They can always drop by a liquor store then
go home and pour their own and let the kids watch.
They'll be so impressed that hungry look will
just magically disappear from their little faces.

Last Edited by hillbilly on 08/30/2019 11:07 PM

I am sure not paying them decent wages is.

Another reason I don’t tip. Bartenders constantly steal from the owner by pouring free drinks in exchange for better tips. Again fuck all that. Tipping started in the Great Depression when people were so poor they wouldnwork for free running food from the kitchen to tables hoping for a tip. If that was the situation I would throw them some $. But servers don’t deserve wht they make. I know some that pull down 300-500 a shift. Do you tip the cooks in the back that make $10-12/hr?

So you steal alcohol from your employer in exchange for better tips?

This

if youven't much money, the servant could tell from looking

if you'd a've ad more, and that would be an insult to you yourself.

What professions are we supposed to tip again? It’s hard to keep track which ones society deems tipable. I mean wtf would i tip some cashier? Bc they put a cup out that says “tips for college”. Fuck that. Roofers break there backs in the hot sun for $15/hr do they get tipped? Some teachers make 35k a year. Tips? The whole system is fucking retarded. Employers should pay employees. Don’t like the hourly wage, quit. If I want to tip you for exceptional service that should be my decision. Minimum wage and tipping needs to go away. People say it makes the service better. Well if the service sucks then the owner will lose business, in turn firing the shitty servers. Let the free market sort it out

The American tipping system is totally out of hand. Why should an employer not be fully responsible for the worker's pay, instead passing the cost to the consumer? I sure as hell don't get a tip for my job and I work a lot harder than some kid behind the bar.

I never worked as a server/bartender but the dickwad comments on here are conveniently failing to realize these people are basically working for tips. They get paid either nothing or next to nothing by the establishment and depend mainly on tip $$$. That's my understanding...they aren't making 15/20 dollars per hour as a working wage paid by the employer like other examples given in the thread of other professions who don't typically get tips.

I tip 20% on average...sometimes more, sometimes less. It's not below me to leave next to nothing if im pissed off at the service. Failing to keep my drink filled at a restaurant will quickly result in a shitty tip. Rarely will you have that problem at a bar or sports bar....or I never do the places I go.

My understanding is 20% is about average these days... personally I think that's a bit high for "average" but I can deal with it.

Nickle is quite a lot... Are you sure?

If you don’t like your salary find a new job. Plain and simple. Tipping is a forced transaction.

Here’s one. I buy a $500 bottle of wine. Why does some moron that opens it deserve $100? Then at the next table the other moron only gets $5 for opening the $25 bottle of wine. Who worked harder?

I typically give about $1 a drink unless I'm in some po-dunk town where the drinks are like $0.75 or something.

I used to tend bar and I would make bank. All I did was act friendly, put a smile on my face, and talk up the customers a little bit. Typically, they love that. If they weren't a talker, I'd leave them alone and come back for a refill when their glass was getting near empty.

I'd walk out with at least $100 in tips every night and this was about 20 years ago when drinks were like $2-$3/pc.

I rather enjoyed the job. It was easy, and I like talking to people.

These kids (and that's mostly what they are, at least where I frequent) take the job to work for tips...it's that simple.

To your second point...I have sometimes wondered the same thing. You make a good point there.

When you're good at something, never do it for cheap.
A restaurant is merely renting that bartender by the hour.
The good ones know how to make everybody involved happy.

Tips insure prompt service. You pay more TAX on that top shelf bottle.
Yet you would begrudge the same for the poor server that DOES THE WORK.
I find that the highest-paid customers are often the worst tippers. Jelly?

Last Edited by hillbilly on 08/31/2019 05:36 AM

i usually just tip minimum just to save the hassle of busting out my phone's calc

Quite sure the alcohol makes them happy, followed by depressed. Again why does the server deserve more bc I want a more expensive bottle. They do the same work.

Prompt service should be insured by the manager or owner. Who should pay a appropriate wage to his employees.

Tipping is a flawed concept

30% minimum, I am always served first at the bar