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Tipping etiquette
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I admittedly buy a lot of overpriced coffee in the city, and even they're putting tip options on their machines. I guess I am ultimately tipping them to not spit in my coffee...
I typically tip 15-20% if the service is good, but only at a sit down restaurant. I won't do it at Tim's / McD's / any other take out place.
For take-out I typically tip $2 but I don't even see the point as the work literally consisted of: answer phone, pass to cook, give food...no different than a fast food restaurant. But I feel like a cheap *** if I don't.
I won't tip the Oil Changers / Great Canadian Oil Change places, stores, retail shops, etc...what am I tipping for? Literally doing the bare minimum of your job? LoL
As @MaksTO Poland is great...they hate customers. You're being an inconvenience for them just by showing up! And God forbid you try on clothes / hats...FML it's like pulling teeth. If I want to be treated like a POS I go to the Polish Consulate on Lakeshore...or a Polish store here. Feels like I'm right back at home.
BUT...the food is good, the service is acceptable, and tipping is not expected back home.
For take-out I typically tip $2 but I don't even see the point as the work literally consisted of: answer phone, pass to cook, give food...no different than a fast food restaurant. But I feel like a cheap *** if I don't.
I won't tip the Oil Changers / Great Canadian Oil Change places, stores, retail shops, etc...what am I tipping for? Literally doing the bare minimum of your job? LoL
As @MaksTO Poland is great...they hate customers. You're being an inconvenience for them just by showing up! And God forbid you try on clothes / hats...FML it's like pulling teeth. If I want to be treated like a POS I go to the Polish Consulate on Lakeshore...or a Polish store here. Feels like I'm right back at home.
BUT...the food is good, the service is acceptable, and tipping is not expected back home.
I wont regularly tip at fast food joints. When I used to frequent fast food restaurants, if there was a staff member that was exceptionally good, I would give them 50 or 100 every year or so. Like evo's theory, hopefully it made a difference in their lives.
Priller
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Should you add gratuity to a restaurant bill in Norway, or round-up your fare in a taxi? We take a look at tipping culture in Norway and let you know what to expect.
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There definitely seems to be a hatred for customers there haha. Though I also hate being a customer so I guess that's why I'm ok with it
. I generally have a strong distaste for shopping so if I am going to a store physically, there's a 98% chance I already know what I want and I'll be in and out in about 5 minutes. I try to be as out of the way as possible in a store unless I genuinely have a question that cannot be answered within 2 minutes of googling.During covid and for a while after I tended to tip a bit more generously until the restaurants got their sea legs back. Not as much with fast-food. Now it seems the restaurants are raising prices to cover the past losses.
A good server should be pleasant but not intrusive. I like being treated as an equal so don't get snobby if I use the wrong fork or worse still, don't grovel. On the equal bit, the Caribbean vacations don't appeal to me as the person serving me probably could never afford the meals I was eating.
Tipping is not a good idea. In a way it allows for bullying, "Be nice to me or you don't get a fat tip, even if I make your job hell."
As with any goods or services, always check the bill.
I worked behind the bar for fifteen years. Got stiffed plenty of times. Never padded anyone's bill or tab, not once.
Not all servers are crooks.
Takeout gets a 10-15% tip and dine-in gets a 20-100% tip depending on the level of service.
Servers deal with **** and penny-pinchers all day so if they’re good they deserve it.
The wife and I have a couple of regular places and being nice to the staff gets us perks. No waiting for tables, can get reservations on even the busiest nights and I can text the manager on the way on a Friday night and have a table waiting.
If you can afford to go out for a nice meal, you can afford to tip your server, especially if it’s good service.
Servers deal with **** and penny-pinchers all day so if they’re good they deserve it.
The wife and I have a couple of regular places and being nice to the staff gets us perks. No waiting for tables, can get reservations on even the busiest nights and I can text the manager on the way on a Friday night and have a table waiting.
If you can afford to go out for a nice meal, you can afford to tip your server, especially if it’s good service.
Green Meenie
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Was at the Skydome (Sorry, it's NOT the Rogers Centre) a couple weeks back and went to get 2 beers for me and a buddy. Payment there is now card only which is fine. Problem was, a tip option automatically comes up after the total of what you ordered. There's several tip options including 'no tip'. No matter how many times I pressed that 'no tip' button, that payment terminal would not advance to the next stage. When I pressed the lowest tip percentage (15% I think) magically things progressed to the final payment.
Now, I don't mind tipping at all when appropriate but when someone is just handing me a couple of cans of beer which are about double the price I'd be paying at any other place then forget it. There's absolutely NO reason to tip in that circumstance! (2 tall boy Budweiser - just under $30.00 with tax & minimum tip option).
Now, I don't mind tipping at all when appropriate but when someone is just handing me a couple of cans of beer which are about double the price I'd be paying at any other place then forget it. There's absolutely NO reason to tip in that circumstance! (2 tall boy Budweiser - just under $30.00 with tax & minimum tip option).
Mad Mike
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I have a 2 local watering holes that I treat that way - its like stepping into at Cheers. On a busy night I don't need to txt the owner, any staff will make the next able when I drop in. My favorite beer always gets to the table before me.
But those are special relationships, I have to exclude them from a general discussion on tipping. I show my support by by bringing them lots business, they reciprocate with service.
A bit of a hijack but Niagara Falls had a city tax of sorts on food and accommodations. It was some sort of tourism improvement fee but the cash flow from the businesses was so undocumented that a lot of the coin may have just stayed in the tills. It was supposed to be voluntary but some places insisted it was mandatory.
Wouldn't it be nice if one didn't have to carry a calculator everywhere.
It was weird buying two shirts in Watkins Glen NY. They were $10 each. I asked how much and it was $20. No tax on clothes under $100 or thereabouts.
If there were no taxes and add-ons one could look at a menu and think "I've got $30 cash and I could get an entre and a beer for $30. Add $3.90 HST, $4.50 tip, and you're at $38.40. If there is a tourism fee of 10% you're at $42.24.
A dealer could offer new cars for $10 with an admin fee of $50,000.
In many ways I liked the hidden tax system as it kept the manure out of sight.
You can refuse the fee in the Falls, whether the establishment says it’s mandatory or not.
Same as the rest of Europe. Taxes in, no tipping. The price you see is what you pay.
I wish we would do that, along with paying service workers decently to begin with.
and setting up the superannuation system that Australia has to ensure all workers have a nest egg over time.
www.ato.gov.au
The day you start work your fund is contributed to from your wages and more important from your employers. Your fund moves with you and ALL employers and employees are required to partipate.
Australia citizens are rich ( 1st or 2nd ) in the world due to the trillions in super funds.
I know the Libs in Ontario wanted to institute it in Ontario, then got dumped for Fnord.
Super | Australian Taxation Office
How to save for retirement via superannuation, your entitlements and obligations, when you can withdraw your super.
Australia citizens are rich ( 1st or 2nd ) in the world due to the trillions in super funds.
I know the Libs in Ontario wanted to institute it in Ontario, then got dumped for Fnord.
Wynne: "Everyone gets their own windmill."
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