tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post5905352794717864031..comments2024-03-28T08:25:27.638-04:00Comments on the bitchy waiter: A Response to "Foreigners Don't Tip"The Bitchy Waiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04416218015992830876noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-44394719086063865282018-08-16T01:08:07.264-04:002018-08-16T01:08:07.264-04:00You will wonder some your friends in the office ar...You will wonder some your friends in the office are receiving much larger gratuities compared to you personally. Nicely, receiving bigger hints is not about having the foodstuff into a customer punctually giving him that the test over a couple of minutes later he requests it.You can use this <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tip.calculator.free" rel="nofollow">Tip Calculator</a> through which you can easily came to know split the tip and all the bill amount among the given number of people.Romen Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06510938812488601309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-55201364933970951842017-09-20T04:29:01.177-04:002017-09-20T04:29:01.177-04:00In the UK you're not expected to leave a tip b...In the UK you're not expected to leave a tip but generally the standard is 10% in restaurants for good service. We don't tip bar staff unless it's to keep the change if we break a note as to be honest they've only poured a pint. You really need to get things changed with your bosses as it's not a customers job to subsidies your wages they're already paying for their dinner. Also I've only ever come across an in built service charge when it's been a table of 6 or more and I've been to most major European destinations. Expected tipping seems to be a very cheeky american custom that your employers seemed to have hoodwinked you into believing is how you get your full wages rather than them paying you enough to live on. I've never seen anywhere with a suggested tip at the bottom of the bill as mentioned above and if I did or I think anyone I know saw this, and sorry to be blunt but they would tell you to take your handwritten note and stick it up your arse. Happy to tip 10% but that's it as I'd do back home for good service.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-26412178601672413072017-08-30T05:33:18.132-04:002017-08-30T05:33:18.132-04:00If you can't live with the money your boss pay...If you can't live with the money your boss pays you, then maybe you shouldn't accept that job.<br /><br />If the only force behind tips is social convention and not law, you can't people fulfill your wishes.<br /><br />Get a real job. One that allows you live without relying on strangers' generosity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-53939200902555564022017-08-17T03:59:40.960-04:002017-08-17T03:59:40.960-04:00Also I include a hand written note at the bottom o...Also I include a hand written note at the bottom of each check calculating the tip for them in incriminates of 15,18 and 20 percent. I have found this to work wonders!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599246594727823341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-88516478646843636862017-08-17T03:56:49.515-04:002017-08-17T03:56:49.515-04:00I am a waitress in Key West, FL. A large percentag...I am a waitress in Key West, FL. A large percentage of my customers are foreign. First off I would like to state that some people are never going to tip or leave $3-$5 if your lucky. With that being said a lot of foreigners are truly uneducated when it comes to tipping. They do not know that waiters and waitresses are being paid well below if not ridiculously below minimum wage. I have been a waitress for several years now and yes I used to cringe every time the host would seat me a foreign table. I have learned to learn with them...all it takes is a couple of seconds to explain it to the guest and I can garrantee you will receive at least 15% if not more. These guest are people just like you and me, just trying to enjoy their vacation. How about instead of being negative towards them help them learn something new about our culture.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599246594727823341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-36345485459663434472017-06-05T13:36:56.531-04:002017-06-05T13:36:56.531-04:00Those Americans don't understand that tipping ...Those Americans don't understand that tipping is purely a US thing, and in other places it might be different. In Europe, tips are appreciated, but not expected. In Japan it will be an awkward situation, if you offer a tip. So people might simply not be aware that they are not only expected to leave extra money, but also that it should be at least 15%. In other countries waiters are paid full wage, so how do tourists suppose to know you are in fact so underpaid? Why not just include that 15% in the pricing of food? What really annoyed me in USA is that most of the time they try to hide the final price from you. Like you see one price on the tag, but then at the register they add a load of taxes, and it's now much more. Why not add those taxes into the final price right away? To me, that's cheating. Same thing in restaruants. The system is unfair to both employees (who are risking to be underpaid) and customers (who are expected to take employer's responsibility of paying the workers). So why not just show the full price on the menu?<br />BTW I always leave tips when I am in USA, since I am aware of this system, but the system itself is still irritating. Don't expect everyone to know. Put a sign or something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-72949500690904681312017-05-21T13:09:36.435-04:002017-05-21T13:09:36.435-04:00Fuck tipping it's a dumb capitalist system tha...Fuck tipping it's a dumb capitalist system that you employees allow to exist. I came in from Australia expecting cheaper costs and service that I would Want to tip. So far everything is more expensive and very average service, leaving a great tip or a low tip doesn't change a thing still get no response from waitstaff how much do I have to pay to get a friggen smile!! Your employers make full quote and leave you guys to pick up any crumbs left over, maybe turn your anger inwards and stop leaning over the barrel and letting your employers having their way with you, the rest of the world works well without this system. If you sign up to a $3/hr job your already bat shit crazy. The service industry would not run without you guys, you are a critical cog in the machine. In Australia I pay full price but I still tip but only for great service get with the times - I thought they abolished slavery in America, apparently not?Martyn australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17673364774586715820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-9610304452519221772015-10-10T04:06:02.109-04:002015-10-10T04:06:02.109-04:00IF YOURE FINANCIALLY STRAINED YOU DONT HAVE THE MO...IF YOURE FINANCIALLY STRAINED YOU DONT HAVE THE MONEY TO EAT OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE Y'all better tip 20% atleasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03039253234944731050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-60106140580840524532015-10-10T04:01:25.308-04:002015-10-10T04:01:25.308-04:00Spot onSpot onY'all better tip 20% atleasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03039253234944731050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-43602563842786347342011-10-27T04:08:42.356-04:002011-10-27T04:08:42.356-04:00In my Country TIP is a shame. after all we are rec...In my Country TIP is a shame. after all we are recognized by our boss. If you are not happy with your salary complain to your boss, or go study to get a better job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-14843412095685575242010-08-24T03:26:15.280-04:002010-08-24T03:26:15.280-04:00In South Africa we tip. We also tip about 15%, bu...In South Africa we tip. We also tip about 15%, but me and my husband are both excellent tippers because we have both been on the serving side.<br /><br />Problem is that when we go overseas, the exchange rate is massive on the Rand ($1 = R8 / 1 Euro = R15 / 1 Pound = R10). Just eating is expensive and it's not like you can go ahead and make yourself something if you don't want to eat out. <br /><br />We try. We tip our best. But sometimes we just don't have the cash eventhough we need to eat.Kedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467573541576582062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-38606047281258025742010-08-21T12:34:38.202-04:002010-08-21T12:34:38.202-04:00Aussie Phreddy wrote:
"How is it that other ...Aussie Phreddy wrote:<br /><br />"How is it that other countries pay their waiters a wage, making tipping related to the quality of service"?<br /><br />Here's how. The price of a "Blooming' Onion" in Australia is $8.90 based on today's conversion rate. the price of a "Bloomin' Onion" in Nashville today is $7.59 (including tax). That's an increase of...wait for it...15%! And you don't pay less if the service is awful.<br /><br />I used a Bloomin' Onion as an example because it's the same product in the same restaurant. You have to compare apples with apples (or, in this case, onions with onions).<br /><br />European countries mostly have a 15% service charge already included in the price. so, basically, you're being forced to tip regardless of how poor you find the service. And in Japan, if you compare prices between there and the US (once again, comparing like items), you'll find an add on 10% service charge on top of 15 - 25% increases in price. <br /><br />Hope this clarifies the issue.<br /><br />"So You Want To Be A Waiter" blog<br /><br /> http://teleburst.wordpress.com/telebursthttp://teleburst.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-47494795529868264882010-08-21T06:26:56.295-04:002010-08-21T06:26:56.295-04:00I am not in any type of service industry, but I ha...I am not in any type of service industry, but I have a story about an American who apparently hadn't heard of tipping.<br /><br />I picked up my boyfriend from the airport one night, and as we paid for parking at the automatic machine, a 20-something girl with a terrible attitude rambled loudly to her very bored-looking, mouth-hanging-open-and-eyes-glazed boyfriend about the last night of the trip she had just returned from. I believe her and her girlfriends had gone out the night before, and were at some point expected to leave a tip. For the door man? Waiter? Bartender? Cabbie? I don't know. This is what she said (phonetic spelling in parentheses):<br />"So I (ahhy) said (saaahhud) TIP (TEEYYUP)???!?!?!?!!! I ain' NEVA tip! So ahhy gave him (hiiyumm) a DOLLA."<br />Really Lady? Did you? How very kind. I hope whoever it was appreciated your tip very much, seeing as it was the first one you'd ever left in your young adult life.astonished parkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-75598392520402605192010-08-20T02:16:09.132-04:002010-08-20T02:16:09.132-04:00In some foreign countries, particularly in South E...In some foreign countries, particularly in South East Asia, Tips are associated with Bribery. At least that is how my family described the situation in the Philippines. A place where corruption runs so rampant compared to America attempting to "bribe" when in the U.S.A would be wrong. I mean I don't think most of them even realize it, especially when you've grown up like that.Islander Supehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04374495358779534226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-19564955068829688062010-08-18T08:21:30.211-04:002010-08-18T08:21:30.211-04:00How is it that other countries pay their waiters a...How is it that other countries pay their waiters a wage, making tipping related to the quality of service? This does not make it prohibitive to eat out - in Australia for example.<br /><br />The waiting I have done, 30 years ago, at a prepaid function establishment in Melbourne for weddings etc., was hard work but quite good fun, we didn't expect a tip so what we got we really appreciated.<br /><br />Of course $2.13 an hour is unlivable and it obviously creates a lot of ill feeling, going by The bitchy waiters articles and many of the comment responses. There must be a better way to earn a crust.Phreddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-44493266984029745712010-08-18T02:48:28.909-04:002010-08-18T02:48:28.909-04:00@ heart-mily: stay the fuck home.
@ various anoni...@ heart-mily: stay the fuck home.<br /><br />@ various anonimi: Not that I'm EVER defending the owners, but if they paid all us bartenders and servers etc. a full-on salary, do you have any idea how expensive eating out would be? Where do you think they would pull all this magical money from? Do any of you have any idea the operating costs involved in running a restaurant? Do you want to pay $30 for a drink? Or $40 for a hamburger? I didn't think so. That is why you tip. Or at least why you're supposed to. YOU pay me to wait on you. I'm not waiting on the owner. I'm waiting on YOU. The owner only pays me a token wage to work in his restaurant because it's against the law not to.Nikkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06940070047873405638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-33626479757236438532010-08-18T01:15:05.863-04:002010-08-18T01:15:05.863-04:00From what I know, it is common for restaurants in...From what I know, it is common for restaurants in some countries to include the tip in the bill, which can explain why tourists may not tip all the time. Those are probably not cheap, but just assuming you've already been paid for the service you gave...However, when I travel, I tend to do some researches on that kind of stuff, to make sure my "behavior" is the right one, and that I don't look too much of a bitch...or a tourist!Elise Luciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265891536972690094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-17593212531579522942010-08-17T21:12:19.363-04:002010-08-17T21:12:19.363-04:00Okay, I'm gonna get some static on this one, b...Okay, I'm gonna get some static on this one, but a 15% gratuity is not, repeat, is not automatic.<br /><br />If the service is fine (all the way around, not just the waiter) then by all means, tip 15%.<br /><br />But if it isn't, don't.<br /><br />Tipping less than 15%, or not at all in rare cases, is the only way you can show your displeasure with the service you received.G. B. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09783331838434598963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-50554660227395276742010-08-17T18:49:09.519-04:002010-08-17T18:49:09.519-04:00I meant over 18 before anybody says it btw.I meant over 18 before anybody says it btw.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05206825864346093678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-21703023854594907702010-08-17T18:44:11.818-04:002010-08-17T18:44:11.818-04:00Surely you're angst should be aimed towards yo...Surely you're angst should be aimed towards your low-paying employers, not customers who are probably paying too much for 'service'. How's about you stop lambasting all non-Americans for their choices - tipping is fucking optional remember, one would be obliged to tip at best - and start lambasting your arse-hole boss. Or even better, get a job that does pay minimum wage. If a company were found to be paying somebody under the age of 18 less than minimum wage in the U.K. there would be repercussions. Through naivety I thought the U.S. was the same, but clearly not, which is pretty bloody shocking!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05206825864346093678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-88169357380692904542010-08-17T17:32:43.532-04:002010-08-17T17:32:43.532-04:00From the "Finlandian":
First of all, ex...From the "Finlandian":<br /><br />First of all, excuse me if the tone of my comment appeared arrogant. I certainly did not write in that mind-set. In the morning rush, I wanted to add my 2 cents into the discussion.<br /><br />I did not mean to generalize, of course some Europeans are used to leaving a generous tip. Having read my comment once again, I see that unfortunately, some may take it as a hasty generalization.<br /><br />I simply wanted to show what's the average foreigner's stance on tips. We may often fall into thinking that waiters get a somewhat proper salary (perhaps because we are used to that in our own country) and regard tip as something additional. Also, with high price tags in the menu, you would expect that you partly pay for the service as well, hence the "hey, the drinks were expensive enough".<br /><br />I will not comment on how it's in other European countries, but at least in Finland it is NOT customary to tip (now, by this, I do not mean that we have an excuse to ignore the US customs, but I'm rather trying to explain why some are not used to doing the math and do not take it dead seriously, but rather tip based on the thickness of their wallet and what they feel is appropriate). In Finland you might sometimes leave a couple of euros as a compliment if you were pleased with the service. You would leave the restaurant with a good conscience, knowing that the waiter will not swear at you behind your back. In the case that I only buy some drinks, and not a meal, it would seem to me that 3 dollars is sufficient amount to pay for taking and bringing my order. Perhaps it just feels so with a student's wallet... <br /><br />Anyway, as the comments were prevailingly negative, with other waiters complaining bitterly about the lack of tips from foreigners, my intention was to show why it may be so - how we think.<br /><br />And by the way, the amount or absence of a tip does not always correlate with the degree of "assholeness", excuse me for the lexicon (not the worse thing said over here anyway). Some are financially strained and cannot afford being generous, while others are simply not aware of the extent to which the waiters are dependent on the tip. I was not aware myself of the 2 dollars/hr wage. Whatever the case, waiters out there: you shouldn't condemn people so hastily, especially if the client did not give you a hard time. There are just different customs, different situations.<br /><br />I have enjoyed reading your posts, Bitchy Waiter, and I will continue reading them in the future despite your new proclaimed attitude towards Finns :) After all, that kind of response was to be expected from your alter ego - The Bitchy Waiter.<br /><br />Wishing you lots of local customers!<br /><br />Cheers from Finland (the country of good vodka, no tip obligations, and friendly people :)<br /><br />Btw I'm Ms and here's my face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-17948356569927937102010-08-17T17:20:04.270-04:002010-08-17T17:20:04.270-04:00On the rare occasion that I don't have enough ...On the rare occasion that I don't have enough to properly tip (as in, I only have around 10% to tip), I let my server know up front, so they know not to bust their ass. It rarely happens, and I'll normally ask when they're working again and bring them a proper tip later in the week. They always seem surprised to see me again, but when I come in the next time (with money to spare and tip properly) they always take the best care of me. I feel like a douche the first time, but I know I'll make up for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-73649346685994537342010-08-17T16:45:44.695-04:002010-08-17T16:45:44.695-04:00P.S. - <3mily,
If you can't afford to tip, ...P.S. - <3mily,<br />If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat out. Waiters expect the pocket change of teenagers, but that doesn't make it acceptable. And if you think you're broke now, wait until you have a job in food service where you depend on teenagers to tip 15% to survive.Bettynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-51476278198592283032010-08-17T16:44:03.383-04:002010-08-17T16:44:03.383-04:00@Emily: Amen to Mark W. If you can't afford to...@Emily: Amen to Mark W. If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out. I find it really hard to believe that you can go out to a restaurant more than once but can't spare the extra cash for a tip.<br /><br />Servers' low expectations of teenagers coupled with your admission you don't go to "proper" restaurants (whatever that means) are the most appalling excuses I've seen for low tipping in a long time.<br /><br />You're 18. You're an adult. Grow up, get a job, and quit using the "ohhh I'm under 20 and poor" excuse.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01777298621169810355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706867684354336699.post-28992758405241440132010-08-17T16:41:33.234-04:002010-08-17T16:41:33.234-04:00I have a table of semi-regulars from Europe that I...I have a table of semi-regulars from Europe that I just love, because they know how to tip. One's English and two are Czech, but they leave ~50% every time. Thank god for people who know servers do not get "salaries", we get $2 an hour (even less in euros).Bettyhttp://bettyshaw.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com