Hot chicks can suck too (get your mind out of the gutter!)

[LostMyMind]

Except for the handwriting part... why can't most of you guys write legibly?

What you're talking about, NightAngel?

He he, it's really simple. It's not that we can't, it's we don't care. I have 3 different handwriting; sloppy, very sloppy, and professional. Care to guess what I use most of the time

[Becks]

Isn't there a quote somewhere about finding out about a person by the company they keep?

I'm glad that a tip FINALLY appeared, but, damn, that's a bunch of !!!!

[Imogene]

Isn't there a quote somewhere about finding out about a person by the company they keep?

I'm glad that a tip FINALLY appeared, but, damn, that's a bunch of !!!!

A person who is nice to you but rude to the waitstaff isn't a very nice person after all... ? By Dave Berry? That quote?

[air914]

How awful! It's not like the bride isn't already paying for the wedding (or her family is, but sometimes the bride has to chip in or do it herself too). That is so rude of her friends - I mean come on, the bachelorette party is to "honor" the bride - not to "use" her and her wedding as an excuse for you to get free stuff.

I was a little upset at my bridesmaids b/c no one planned a party at all and my mother paid for at least half of the dress price (and It was only about $150 - I tried to keep it "reasonable"). And some didn't really seem grateful about it. I even had one that skipped out on me after the dress was already ordered and everything........ she did have a pretty good excuse but I was a little upset about it. I did go out the night before my wedding but it was w/ cousins and I think 2 of the guys bought me a drink -but none of the girls did anything really. Just disappointing. I feel sorry for the bride in this scenario too.

[Broomjockey]

I know there's a quote "Judge a person by how he treats those who he is not obligated to treat nicely."

Quick question for the servers out there though. I've wondered, I usually tip $3.50 on a $20.00 bill when I'm by myself. Is that enough? Or should I cough up a bit more?

[toolbert]

i think a normal tip should be roughly 2x the tax depending on where you are. I usually try to go over it by a couple of dollars if the server is really good. if they're just decent, then its just 2x.

as for the topic, I find that most attractive people try to get away with anything. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them (which isn't very far cause when I'd try to throw them I might get sued >.> <.<). I'd rather deal with a nice "cute" person than someone who I'd lust after anyday.

[Jester]

Quick question for the servers out there though. I've wondered, I usually tip $3.50 on a $20.00 bill when I'm by myself. Is that enough? Or should I cough up a bit more?

There are servers out there that say you should never tip less than 20% of the bill. Though I am a server, I disagree.

Here's what I think: If the service is great, tip 20% of the total bill (that means BEFORE any discounts are applied to the bill). If it is better than great, i.e phenomenal, go higher at your discretion. If the service is just adequate, 15% is fair. If it is poor, go down from there.

I had an uncle who either tipped 10% or 20%, depending on the service. To him there was no middle ground. One day, his party was at a restaurant where the service was not so good, so Uncle tipped 10%. Outside the establishment, right after they had exited, the server came out and confronted Uncle, with the tip in his hand, waving it at Uncle. Bad idea.

SERVER: "Is this all I get?"
UNCLE: "You are not happy with this tip?"
SERVER: [indigantly] "No, I am NOT!"
UNCLE: "Then you get nothing."

At which point he took the tip from the server's hand and walked off.

By the way, to those who say you tip twice the tax, that is a very sketchy way to go, as tax rates vary from state to state, and in some states, food or liquor may not be taxed at all.

Any questions?



TWO DAYS TILL VACATION! (No suckass customers for a week!)

[toolbert]

I only say twice the tip cause here in california (at least in the bay area) tax is 8.5-8.75% which would be well over 15% of the bill.

[Jester]

And that is fine for adequate service, but if the service is great, I dare say you are undertipping. And also, while that works in your area, it does not work so well in others, that may have low (6%) sales tax, or high (12%+) sales tax in states like Washington that have no income tax.

Just some more FYI.


TWO DAYS TILL VACATION! (And one week without SC's!)

[Kusanagi]

I was always taught 15%. I've been known to drop more.

I went out for sushi with my friend and the two of had a bill that was 22 dollars. It was the best sushi we had ever had and the guy was awesome. We ended up leaving 40 on the table, on a 22 dollar bill.

There have been times where we haven't tipped that much when we went back, but we're good friends with the guy and he goes out or his way to make sure we have the freshest stuff possible and gives us excellent service.

[Gurndigarn]

My company reimburses tips for business meals up to 15% of the total, so I found that a decent benchmark for personal tipping. Poor, but not pathetic, gets about 10%, real good gets 20%. Mid-ground gets 15%. Pathetic gets two cents-- that way, they know I was pissed.

[Spiffy McMoron]

Before this thread continues on, I'd like to remind everyone to keep it civil. This have been exemplary so far (Good job! ) but there have been several thread like this on previous incarnations of the boards. Things always seemed to get out of hand, degenerate into flame wars, resulting in the thread getting shut down and people being repremanded. Lets keep it quiet, and just compare what we tip.

Personally, I have a system to figure out how much to tip that's a little confusing, but it works for me. Basically, I double the tax (the GST, which is 6%) and use that as a base. Using that, I will then round up to the nearest denominator of 5 for good service, and round down for poor service. For example, I take My Fair Lady out for a date, and the total comes to $50.00. The GST is $3.00, so doubling that would make it $6.00. If I felt that the service was good, I round the tip up to $10, or round it down to $5 for poor service.

Of course, I will be more than happy to break the formula if I get exceptionally good service or bad service.

[Becks]

I tend to tip at least 20%, more if the service is acceptable, less if it's sucktacular.

Back to pretty people and their attitudes, I (and others I know) have discovered that with some good looking people, they have severe bitchiness/entitlement/etc. issues. Others, however, are some of the nicest, sweetest, most generous people ever.

[Bella_Vixen]

Last week I left an 8 cent tip.

My nephew and I went to the local diner type place (George Webb's, anyone?), and sat down at what turned out to be a dirty table. They wiped it off relatively immediately and took away the ashtray.

Then the problems began:

*They never brought a new ashtray.
*It took forever to get someone to take our order. (There were only 4 other people there, and they had all been served before we got there.)
*They never refilled our drinks.
*They took the order of the people who came in right after us right after they took ours, but they got their food, not only first, but a good 5-10 minutes earlier.
*They never came back to check on us.

At that point, I felt no compunction in leaving such a tip. In fact, I felt 8 cents was too much, but I wanted them to know that the tip was deliberate.

[Kiwi]

Kyle taught me this system (we live in BC so the serves are at least paid minimum wage)

$1 to start no matter what the bill, then for every $10 add another $1 (so a $10 bill would get $2, a $20 would get $3) or round it up, if the bill is $32.76 then give them $38 and leave it at that.

I tipped my hairdressor $6 on a $19 cut today, she was a wonderful old biddy who talked to me about baking blueberry pie when she was washing my hair and then let me rest with my eyes closed while she was cutting my hair. Im SOOO going back to her!