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No more worrying about food being 'tampered' time to worry about your name being spread across the internet that you are a lousy tipper, some revenge. The power of the internet never fails to astound me.

It's funny this topic should get posted today. A friend and I just had a conversation relating to this at lunch today. Is there a direct corellation between wait staff complaining about patrons not leaving tips and the quality of service? Me thinks there is.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer in tipping big, at least when the service is good. I'm one of those guilty of leaving a tip even if the waitress is good looking, but the service wasn't that great. Typically, I leave 20% as a rule. But lately, like in the last 2 years, I've noticed more and more that service from wait staff at restraunts is getting worse and worse. At first I thought maybe I was just getting bitter in my old age. This thought made me paranoid, as I always disliked the way the "older" people would ***** about service when I was younger. But a lot of my friends have been saying the same thing.

We thought at first maybe it's because this is a college town, Colorado State is just down the street. But personally, I don't buy it. I've seen everywhere. I think that there is simply a general lack of respect from the young people working in the service industry today.

By the way, our waitress while we were having this discussion was decent. She was a little slow getting over to take our drink order when we first got there, but otherwise she was competent and polite. I left her 25%.

Agreed. A tip should be as good as the tip...or as bad.

You can't sit there and rolls your eyes, sigh, and make me feel like a burden to you AND expect me to leave you a tip.

Gratuity is a gift, not a divine right.

I suspect this is where I differ from many Brits.

Tipping here is the exception, rather than the norm.

I have worked in bars and restaurants and know that it can be a thankless shi[/i]tty job, but a good waiter or barman (or a hot waitress) can really make a trip to a bar or restaurant so much better.

In UK I [i]usually tip 5-10%; 15% for extremely good service. As a result, the waiter feels good (and perhaps a good one will stick around longer), I feel good, and at my next visit I'm usually treated very nicely thank you.

On mainland Europe I always tip 10%; 20% if the service is very good.

I know how it works in the states and the poor bastages behind the bar often depend on tips to pay their rent, so I always tip 20%; 25% if they are outstanding. It seems only fair.

So it seems OK by me to trash the "Mr Pinks".

On a side note, though, I do resent it that every time I go to a bar or restaurant in USA with a local for the first time, I get a lecture about tipping.

Mr. Pink, one of my all time favorite charecters

So I touched a nerve then, eh?

Goody!

I don't feel like, as a customer, that I should have to pay your employee's wages directly by giving them cash. I feel it is 100% wrong to expect me to pay extra for services and goods I am already paying for through the menu cost. If you are not happy making $2.35 an hour, get a different job; don't expect the patrons to pay your way.

what do you have against taco bell?

I worked in the business for about 13 years or so. I waited tables, tended bar, was a cocktail waitress and a hostess.

It is a hard job. If you've never done it, even for a day, you have no idea what it's like.

Yes, servers and bartenders depend on their tips. They make just over $2 an hour. A lot of people don't realize this.

But, having said that, I also don't think servers should get tipped if they give ****** service. At the same time, it's very easy to give ****** service if it's 8:30 on a Saturday night, your restaurant has been on an hour and half wait for about 2 hours, nothing is going right and you see no end in sight. I'm not trying to make excuses, but to the patrons: you are not that servers only table (usually).

Sometimes being in the bidness was fun. Hours are flexible, you can almost literally make as much or as little money as you want, and everyone goes out and gets drunk after their shifts at night. But now, I'm very glad I'm out, and I hope I never have to do it again.

Although sometimes I do miss tending bar

alright, this is going to be a rant.

after being a server for 3 years and a bartender for 7, i can tell you that servers and bartenders have every right to *****. to the person that wants to be mr. pink, you are right, tipping is not mandatory, however think of this, servers only make minimum wage, and that is really only in california. in most other states, servers make, last time i checked, $2.15/hr. it barley covers the taxes you have to pay, you get a paycheck that says void on it. the server lives off the tips that the guests leave, so in retort to your statement of tipping is not mandatory, no it isnt, but it is someones lively hood.

now onto the annoying guest. little hints.

1.) Be Polite!! Why would you want to be rude to the last person that touches YOUR food before you get it. Think about it.

2.) Control your kids. This is not disney land, the staff and the other guests in the resteraunt dont want to hear your kids screaming or see them playing cowboys and indians through out the resteraunt. be a parent and take control.

3.) If the food/drink is not right, cold, not what you ordered, then by all means send it back, but dont eat/drink 99% of it and then send it back. Refer to #1

4.) Try to be understanding. if we have a 5 table station, with 4 people on each table, thats 20 people who all want something from you all at the same time. tell you what, you get 20 strangers together and tell them that for 1 hour you want them all to yell your name, ask you questions, and tell you to get them stuff. you see how you feel after that hour, then maybe you will understand.

5.) One word, Visine. two drops of visine in your drink will send you to the to the can with a very serious bout of the squirts.

6.) Dont go into a resteraunt 15 minutes before closing. Picture it like your boss comming to you 15 minutes before you leave, handing you an assignment that you know is gonna take you another hour to an hour and a half and telling you that it has to be done today befor you go. Use some common sense.

7.) No serving is not a very complicated job, more of a timing thing than anything, and yes i will admit, i have know my fair share of less than brilliant co-workers. But do think on this, no all of us are dumb, belittle us, be rude to us, leave us a crappy tip, we will remember you, and the nicest thing that could happen to you the next time you come in, is crappy service.

8.) Finally, think about when your at work, do you like it when people come and belittle you, and are rude to you while youre on the job. Then why would you do it to someone else?

I couldn't agree with this one more. Nothing is more annoying than someone's ankle biters running around raising hell while I'm eating and their parents act completely oblivious. Don't take your kids to a public dining facility until they've learned some semblance of manners.

And don't expect to get your drinks cold and your meals hot. You're paying for a service. It's like a salesman getting paid commission if he does a good job he gets good pay same should be for waiters and bartenders. Problem with the system is cheap asses like you.