Fudrucker's Worker

[tropicsgoddess]

During my days as a Hostess for a local Italian restaurant & lounge, I didn't get tips as often the servers,bussers and bartenders did. I do have to admit that sometimes it helped me out a great deal when I got tips from my customers since money was really really tight for me at the time and the hours the owners had me working weren't cutting it.

[RedRoseSpiral]

I always hated it when people left tips at the chinese place I used to work at. I never saw the money. The owners took it for themselves and said it paid for out "free" meal. I remember one night this guy who I had went to high school with came in. I always knew he had a thing for me and he showed it that night by taking the $10 out of the $15 I had given him in change and putting it in the tip jar. I almost cried. I would have loved to be able to actually keep that money. I swear one of these days I'm going to call the authorities for all the shit they pulled. Paying under the table and all that jazz.

[Bank Lady]

We're actually legally restricted from accepting tips. It's more of an issue for loan officers than for frontline staff, but that's beside the point. Once in a great while I get a customer trying to tip me and I have to decline. Some customers just don't get it though. One woman was so adamant (and it was only $1) that even my manager said "just take it."

Tipping with food is entirely different though. I work with five women, so chocolate is always accepted. I so love my customers. They keep our candy cabinet full.

[redmountaingoldfish]

My grandpa gives a Sacajawea dollar coin to almost everyone he talks to.

[PaRaGaS]

I had an occurance once when a very pleasant couple wanted to tip me at McD's.
Of course I refused, and they were very insistant.
If it wasn't for the size of their order I'd have thought it was a mystery shop.

[texasbelle5]

I agree that tipping is out of control here. Everybody now has their hand out for a tip.

I have no problem with leaving a generous tip 25-30% if we get good service and refills before I have to ask, but darned if I am going to tip in a burger joint, whether it's a BK or a Fuddrucker's.

We all had crappy low paying retail or food service jobs at one time. But you learn and grow into better jobs.

And tipping at a dry cleaner? Snorts. yea right, that's gonna happen with me.

[MrSunshineState]

I had an occurance once when a very pleasant couple wanted to tip me at McD's.
Of course I refused, and they were very insistant.

I had several people tip me while I worked at the movie theatre.

I tend to always tip. It's just the way I am.

[iradney]

I tip when I receive GOOD service. No good service? No tip. Brilliant service? Great tip. You get what you work for. If you don't work, you don't get. I work too hard for my money to just give it away.