Should it be mandatory to tip your waiter?

Should it be mandatory to tip your waiter?

  • Tipping should be expected - It motivates good service

    Votes: 10 4.4%

  • Tipping should be optional - Tips are for extra effort, not guaranteed

    Votes: 140 61.7%

  • Service charge should be added to the bill as standard

    Votes: 6 2.6%

  • Just raise prices and pay staff properly - Tips shouldn't be needed

    Votes: 68 30.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 1.3%
  • Total voters
    227
Londo said:
I tip for good service. That could be 15-20% depending on the tab. And it is nice to be acknowledged when you do. Not bowing and scraping and falling at my feet. I simple "Thank you" is fine.

Recently I was away on a long trip in SA and I was eating out almost daily. I became aware that my good tips were almost never acknowledged. I'm thinking, if the waiter cannot tell the difference between a good tip and a poor tip, what is the point of tipping well to reward good service? And with our pathetic education, I am not surprised. How many waiters know what 10% or 20% of a bill is?

So here we are fretting about how much, how little to tip and almost all of the recipients of those tips have no idea what we're talking about.
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Oh they know exactly what percentage that tip is, make no mistake.
 
zulucat said:
You’re a real dog if you spend 1000 - 3000 at a restaurant and you don’t tip the person who made it all happen for you. You’re a bottom of the barrel individual. Please get hit by a bus on the way home in your luxury sedan.
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I think you'll find the chef made the food happen...

why is the chef not tipped?
why is the bus driver not tipped?
why is the airplane pilot not tipped?
why is the person who helped you in the hardware store not tipped?
 
I only tip because of social 'norms'. Don't believe in it. Everybody has a sad story deserving of a little extra but this is not the way.
 
Provided you are served at an acceptable level I think a 10% tip should be expected. Extra effort to make it a good experience could increase my tip. On the other hand a rude or unavailable waiter who gets my orders wrong and brings me cold food late I feel should not get a tip. You need the option to not tip to incentivize good service. If it is built into the bill where is the incentive to do a good job?
 
JoE said:
I only tip because of social 'norms'. Don't believe in it. Everybody has a sad story deserving of a little extra but this is not the way.
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for the bad waiters "Tipping" is a city in China - OR more seriously it is related to a Red Indian place of dwelling in the days of the "Wild, Wild West" in North America
 
zulucat said:
You’re a real dog if you spend 1000 - 3000 at a restaurant and you don’t tip the person who made it all happen for you. You’re a bottom of the barrel individual. Please get hit by a bus on the way home in your luxury sedan.
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No, the bottom of the barrel people are restaurant owners who don't pay their waiters properly. It's not my responsibility to make sure a restaurant's staff gets paid.

No one's tipping me for the job I do lol.
 
wbot said:
No, the bottom of the barrel people are restaurant owners who don't pay their waiters properly. It's not my responsibility to make sure a restaurant's staff gets paid.

No one's tipping me for the job I do lol.
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What should a waiter get paid?
 
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