All tipping should be done PRE TAX

I think it's already done that way. When they write suggested tip amount on the receipt w/ percentages, it calculated pre-tax.

Bra-ket wrote:

how it should work wrote:

I don't tip based on a percent. I start everyone out with $5 and if you do a good job I up the amount and if you do a bad job I lower it. It is dumb to tip based on how expensive of a meal I buy.

Lol found the boomer

I want to change how I tip. Starting next time I go out to eat I will give half of my tip to the dishwasher. They deserve it much more than the front of house.

Front of house is all good looking smiley people and back of house is where you have the dishpigs - the people that are rejected by society yet still do their best to support it everyday.

That is not really a good idea. Dishwashers get paid minimum wage or more. Servers get WAY less than minimum wage because they are tipped. Minimum wage right now for tipped employees is $2.13.

Just tip your server. You're no hero trying to go around the system. If a dishwasher doesn't want to make $10 an hour or whatever it is they are getting paid, then they can go get another job. Same is true with the servers.

You people who b!tch about tipping are really bitter people. Being bitter is a choice. Decide to change.

Flagpole, you sound bitter because you can’t afford to move to Burbank. If you ever do make the move, you’ll be paying 10.25% in sales tax. Let’s see how much you feel like tipping then.

LA Woman wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

That is not really a good idea. Dishwashers get paid minimum wage or more. Servers get WAY less than minimum wage because they are tipped. Minimum wage right now for tipped employees is $2.13.

Just tip your server. You're no hero trying to go around the system. If a dishwasher doesn't want to make $10 an hour or whatever it is they are getting paid, then they can go get another job. Same is true with the servers.

You people who b!tch about tipping are really bitter people. Being bitter is a choice. Decide to change.

Flagpole, you sound bitter because you can’t afford to move to Burbank. If you ever do make the move, you’ll be paying 10.25% in sales tax. Let’s see how much you feel like tipping then.

??? Who says I can't afford to move to Burbank? That might be where I go. I actually really like Burbank. Haven't decided exactly where yet.

If the difference in sales tax between 7% and 10.25% makes a person sweat, then they shouldn't be going out to dinner pretty much ever. Eating at home and the very occasional fast food meal is for those people. I plan to retire to Southern California (likely the LA area) and eat out as often as I want to. Staying within your means and investing as much as you should makes that happen.

I NEVER sound bitter because I never AM bitter.

Anyone who has a stick up their ass over tipping shouldn't go out to eat.

You know what this is?

Its the world's smallest violin playing for all the tippers in high sales tax states.

Tipping is racist.

“The origin of tipping is really the feudal system, it’s this idea of noblesse oblige. But when tipping came to the United States, it had a real racial tinge to it, because, originally, the workers who earned tips were almost exclusively black workers—they were newly freed slaves.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dare-you-to-read-this-and-still-feel-ok-about-tipping-in-the-united-states/?utm_term=.a4e163d6f356

I'm under the impression that if servers don't make enough tips to get up to minimum wage their employer is required to cover the difference. Maybe I'm wrong or this doesn't happen in practice. I guess taking that into account maybe I'd give 10% of my tip to the dishwasher but at that point it would be so small that I might as well just give it all to the server.

I don't restroom attendants, and I do not like tipping them.

dfa wrote:

That's why I don't tip more than 5%.

Fk them for getting salty about my sh*tty tip.

You're an @$$hole.

I have only read the op's post and none of the replies. I just came in to say the op is a jerk, plain and simple. But apparently being a jerk is okay to many people.

walk up to the bar put down a 5, say 'put that in the cup',

Flagpole, nobody cares what you think, you blowhard.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Rupp 7.5 cm Model 1986 wrote:

Pre-tax vs. post-tax tipping is a ridiculous problem to have.

All tipping should be frowned upon like it is in Japan.

I lived in Japan for 6 years. No tips, but the prices are higher and the service is crappy more often than here in the U.S. Tipping is better.

Where on Earth did you get crappy service in Japan? I'm not even sure you could if you tried. This is a country where after they pump your gas they go out in the street to halt traffic and guide you out onto the street and then keep bowing toward your departing car as you drive away till you are a good half block away. No joke.

Why not pay the waiters a decent wage instead of this crazy tipping system ?

Mr. Pink, is that you?

https://youtu.be/Z-qV9wVGb38