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
We tip on quality of service and experience. Generally 10% to 15%.
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
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?
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Tip = to insure promptness. You only tip the person who affect your experience ie the waiter or desk agent.
 
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In general, i believe tipping should be customers choice. If you feel your Waiter or Dayworker or even Employee did extra effort and you want to show some goodwill. Then it's a good thing. However... I feel that the workers should be paid properly for the services by the Company. In the case of waiters, they should not be relying on tips to make month end, same for delivery Staff like Ubereats/MrDelivery.

The forcing of tips is also a no-no. If you going to a place forcing the tip, regardless if the service was good or bad or perhaps service was sluggish. People will stop going there.


I generally Tip 10% unless the service was bad.
 
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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Minimum wage is R28.79.

What hourly rate would constitute waiters being paid “properly” so that tips are not required and prices would stay relatively similar to now.
 
Honestly, i don't mind paying extra(tip) to the waiter if the service was good.

The problem is that if it is calculated into the price (Service charge should be added to the bill as standard)
the waiting staff already received their tip and wont even bother to give you proper service....This is South Africa after all. Where people show up to work to make up their hours worked, not that they do anything.
 
JabiRider said:
If you don't want to pay the waiter for the service you get, then don't go and eat out at restaurants. Get takeaway instead. And remember, if the food is not up to your high standards, it is not the waiter's fault. The problem is with the kitchen or the management. If you see your entire tables's food standing there getting cold, or your drinks order takes 30 minutes to come, then you can blame your waiter.
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This ....

Was at a steakhouse a few nights back while doing a road trip.
The waitress was great ..... she really looked after us, gave us a few tips on the little town we were in, made sure we were satisified and gave us double drinks to go knowing we were travelers.

Now, the steak I got was cooked ..... to perfection. The chef was the star of the meal here .....

Now, here we get our check with a suggested tip amount, starting at 15% going upto 25%.

My question .... would the waitress split the tip with the kitchen staff, because they both deserved a bit of an extra thanks for that chow.
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
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?
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Chef paid a decent salary. Waiter on minimum wage.
 
Should be commission based not mandatory. Some waiters do for example mess up orders and then try get you to pay for that instead of themselves paying for their own mistake... you still get macdonalds though 😂 apparently putting extra stuff in your food like spit, but you tipped them 😂 it's only fair you got extras.

To be honest I would rather tip a chef who actually made me think "wow I could not cook this at home" than a waiter who just walks up and down. Although in reality I tip even bad service. But in restraunts is mandatory even if their food is mediocre and just barely reaching what anyone can cook at home.
 
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Smiggles said:
Tip = to insure promptness. You only tip the person who affect your experience ie the waiter or desk agent.
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you don't tip before a meal, my gosh do you walk in and say hello to your waiter then bribe him to work faster? lol
 
chrismine said:
Chef paid a decent salary. Waiter on minimum wage.
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so you agree it's not the patrons fault and they shouldn't have to cover it with a "tip" its the owner of the restaurant who refuses to pay his staff a liveable wage?

welcome to earth
 
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