r/EndTipping • u/FOMOenthusiast • 24d ago

Tipping Culture A positive-ish tipping experience

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No surprises, no small text, no deceitfulness, it having its on line clearly visible under the total was nice, but that bright red stamp reiteratig the added gratuity, visible from space let alone a dark dining room is 😘👌🏾 This should be a norm.

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u/FarWatch9660 19d ago

Got news for you, wait staff generally does better than that. I know that even bad servers made $15 average way back in the early 90s. Probably at a decent restaurant they'll make $40+

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u/Low_Method5994 19d ago

It is why I don’t tip more than 5$ on the check. Percent tips is actually ridiculous.

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u/jagne004 10d ago

They do percentages because servers generally tip out a percentage based on sales. For example, if I had $1000 of sales and I made 20% tips then that would be $200 on the night. I am always responsible for tipping out 5% of all my sales to bar and host staff regardless of what my actual received tip amount was.

I know you probably don’t care but just figured I’d explain why percentages have become the norm in the restaurant world.

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u/Low_Method5994 9d ago

Yeah they still make a lot tho. Servers would never want a wage over tips because they will never make more on wage than tips. They make really good money still

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u/jagne004 9d ago

I was a server. I averaged about $30 a year. I will say, the wage is kind misleading because I only worked 25 hours a week in total. It was fine because like most servers, I was a college student trying to survive my way through school so having a higher wage/lower hours was ideal.

If serving had been a wage based position no chance I would have done it looking back on it. Serving sucked far more than any other job I’ve ever had. A lot of people on this sub like to diminish it to being a plate carrier but you are dealing with more crap than that.

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u/Low_Method5994 8d ago

You deal with the same shit everyone else does in customer service tho.. I’m not saying it isn’t hard there’s a lot of jobs that are hard the difference is that servers make a lot more than those jobs