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Am wondering what sort of rules there are for tipping. When one goes to a high-end restaurant, one tips for service...Should not the persons at McDonald's, T Hortons etc not be tipped as well? They are doing you a service too. And I am retired and not concerned if I get a tip or not. Just thinking on what job or position justifies a tip. Do you tip your dentist, your doctor, the person who picks up your garbage...all are done as a service to you....think on it...who makes the rules?

I am against tipping practice altogether. There are lots of "minimum wage" earners who don't get tipped (as you pointed out). So not sure why only few needed to tipped for the service. I think it should be included in the price and the employees' wage should reflect that. Worst part is that everyone these days thinks and even demand that they should be tipped. But in my opinion tip is for extraordinary service and should be optional.

I make my own rules as to who I tip, gift or compliment on a job well done. That being said I have no issue telling someone if they were horrible as well. It's done politely but it's done. My garbage guy gets a treat every year, places like McDonald's, Wendy's etc do not get the tips from what I've seen, so my favorite workers get nothing. Tims pools their tips I believe as do alot of restaurants now. So depending on where I am on what I do. If my server has run their tush off I don't want them to have to share my compliment, so I will ask for the mgr on duty and make it clear they are to get the full amount of what I've left. Giving is a nice thing to do

To my dog groomer and paper person because they do an outstanding job for me.

If tips were to be given out based on excellent service there wouldn't be many getting tips in the restaurant business. Really what do they do moreso than the cashier in a grocery store or at Walmart.  
 
Yes the workers at McDonalds, Wendys or A&W deserve a tip more than most waitresses in any high end restaurant. The difference is that the high end restaurants try to coerse you into tipping by handing you a bill that shows where to give a tip or a debit machine that has a key to punch as to whether you want to tip or not. If Mcdonalds handed you your bill in the same manner with a space to add a tip they also would probably get a tip.  
 
In the spring I went to a high end restaurant downtown on the last day before they closed. The special and actually the only thing you could order was a buffet where you served yourself and the bill came with a 15% gratuity added on. Needless to say if they hadn't closed I would have never gone back.

I never tip no matter where I go. Or how much the bill is. It's their job, period!

I think if you get great service you should leave a tip,I'm not a big tipper thought most i give is $5 tip at higher end places...better then nothing

I don't tip anywhere I go. Your employer hired you to do a job so you do it and that means a well job as we teach our children to do a good job.

They have a great discussion on that movie about tipping.

Tip~ as I was taught stands for:  
To  
Insure  
Proper  
Service  
=Your discretion

the person who pumps your gas in -40 degree weather. That person is most likely getting minimum wage and working in the brutal cold. An extra dollar from everyone should be mandatory

Just Me Saying Hi said "the person who pumps your gas in -40 degree weather. That person is most likely getting minimum wage and working in the brutal cold. An extra dollar from everyone should be mandatory "

that is just what I was going to come on here and say. Especially those great guys at 6th Street CO-OP.

As a rule, I would tip anyone who takes pride in bringing me food and drink, or improving my physical appearance.  
 
 
Pouring hot water through beans I'm on the fence about.  
 
Edited by Blue_Guru, 2016-11-02 20:31:15

Tipping should be used as a way of saying "good service" Say I go out to get a hair cut. I get a really well done hair cut. I would tip my hair dresser/barber an amount I find reasonable (for me 5-10 dollars. If you think more, then more). I use it as a nice gesture. People in sales especially. If they help me to a good extent, I'd tip them.

Tiping is to ensure great service. You sit st the table for atleast an hour and expect multiple services such as someone going to your table to take your order, drink and food delivery (you want a refill don''t you) taking the plates after, bringing dessert menus and the dessert after then again clearing plates and having to clean the table after. Yes it''s a minimum wage service job but customers at a sit in restarunt expect to be top priority and the best of service so you pay for it. I have always be taught if you can''t afford a tip then you can''t afford to go out to eat and spend money on food. Comparing a waitress job to a team member job at mcdonalds is barley a comparison and all servers deserve tips for dealing with customers and there ridiclous service needs.  
P.s unlike fastfood restaurants, full service places (keg,Boston piza, montanas etc) all make there servers tip out on there SALES for that night (3-5%). So for every $100 spent (easy for a couple to spend that on 1 date) your server owes the place the work $3-$5 bucks. Some people don''t know that or think if they tip cash there server gets it all but tip out is based on sales so sometimes that standard $5 is only enough for the waitress not to loose money from serving you and leaves them no tip.  
 
Plus if people in fast food, gas stations and whatever other services you want to compare to want tips there is lots of jobs out there in these restaurants where they can make tips that are always looking for hardworking staff(cooks,servers,dishwashers)  
 
Edited by theboss, 2016-11-03 05:47:32

theboss said "Tiping is to ensure great service. You sit st the table for atleast an hour and expect multiple services such as someone going to your table to take your order, drink and food delivery (you want a refill don''t you) taking the plates after, bringing dessert menus and the dessert after then again clearing plates and having to clean the table after. Yes it''s a minimum wage service job but customers at a sit in restarunt expect to be top priority and the best of service so you pay for it. I have always be taught if you can''t afford a tip then you can''t afford to go out to eat and spend money on food. Comparing a waitress job to a team member job at mcdonalds is barley a comparison and all servers deserve tips for dealing with customers and there ridiclous service needs.   P.s unlike fastfood restaurants, full service places (keg,Boston piza, montanas etc) all make there servers tip out on there SALES for that night (3-5%). So for every $100 spent (easy for a couple to spend that on 1 date) your server owes the place the work $3-$5 bucks. Some people don''t know that or think if they tip cash there server gets it all but tip out is based on sales so sometimes that standard $5 is only enough for the waitress not to loose money from serving you and leaves them no tip.     Plus if people in fast food, gas stations and whatever other services you want to compare to want tips there is lots of jobs out there in these restaurants where they can make tips that are always looking for hardworking staff(cooks,servers,dishwashers)     Edited by theboss, 2016-11-03 05:47:32"

is not to ensure good service. They should be giving you good service right from the start, because they don't know if you are going to tip or not.  
 
Also, if I have saved for weeks, just so I can go out for a nice supper, well maybe I make min. wage at my job and no one tips me. So with what I saved to go out and enjoy a night out, I have no money left for a tip, but I still expect good service.

If the restaurant takes a mandatory 3-5% of sales as you say (I've never worked in a restaurant in Brandon) that is not the customers fault.. And that should not be expected from the customer to cover that "expense" the waitress has.  
 
That being said the restaurants should be charging the wait staff 3-5% of sales, they're already making a profit on the sale of the food, that's like double dipping... Shame on the restaurants that do that

is not usually about being cheap, to some it is but not all. when said customer comes to your sit in restaurant, yes they expect more but the prices on the menu reflect that. It is your job to perform the services you were hired for. if you require extra to pay to tip out or whatever, you better be good enough at your job to earn extra. To expect your customer to pay for your tip out regardless of your service is not fair to them. That being said I always tip well when the service is good but I won't tip for poor service. Shame on whoever taught you that you shouldn't go out if you can't tip, think about the worst service YOU ever had at a restaurant and tell us if you would tip them! Probably not!

I always tip servers and bar staff - as long as the service is good. A server's job is to ensure that your "outing" is enjoyable, and when i go out for supper that server is basically waiting on me hand and foot. They bring me my drinks, my food and clean up after me, so therefore - yes they get 15%, it is not the easiest job in the world and you have the deal with the most horrible people around at times. If the service sucks, i won't tip. If it's a buffet and i have to serve myself but yet the server brought me a drink and was friendly, etc. i will leave a small tip. It is just common courtesy.  
I tip my hairdresser because she makes me look good. I tip the gas attendant in -40 weather and when i'm the a-hole who needs gas in the pouring rain.  
you give a little you get a little.

If the service is good or excellent I will tip anywhere from 5-10$. I'm generous though because I have waitressed at a minimum wage job and tips have saved me on many occasions when my hours weren't great, so I know how it can make someones day if things aren't going well!

I'll leave this here for peoples entertainment  
 
 
Tipping is dumb, Nobody should ever feel obligated to do it. And nobody should feel there entitled to receiving it either.

Is that all debit machines seem to have a tip function now. As well, I have started seeing "recommended percentages" on bills.  
 
I went to a Cheesecake factory in Minneapolis last summer and they had four levels of tips - starting at 15% and going to 30%, with amounts. It would have added $40 to our bill to tip 30% - I find that insane and rude. I mean, assuming they are considered a large employer - this woman would have been making $9.50/hr. From what we could see she had five tables, all with between three and four people. So based on that and some crude numbers, assuming each table stayed for the full hour and spent $100 per table, if they all tipped 30% that one woman would have been making $159.50 per hour. Even if they all tipped 10% she still would have made $59.50/hr. Something is not right there.....  
 
Sad thing is, this waitress did not come back to check on us beyond getting our first drinks and order. Someone else brought us our meals and someone else still brought the bill.  
 
So why would I consider a 30% tip for someone who not only did not earn that tip, but not one of the three different staff members did anything beyond what they were paid to do.  
 
I have issue with places like a pizza place that you pick up your own pizza going right to adding a tip too. Recently I picked up a pizza in town and skipped right past that function thinking they had done nothing but what they were there to do, and I drove to get it myself.  
 
I will now be going out of my way to avoid restaurants that make wait staff pay a percentage of their tables. That is just bad business - what incentive is there for a staff member to upsell for your restaurant if they are just going to have to pay out of their pockets at the end?  
 
While we are on the subject of who DOESN'T get tipped (and maybe should) - why don't people tip the flooring guy who carries in thousands of pounds of tile, wood, or vinyl into your house with out damaging your walls or belongings (would you like to do that??) Some of those guys don't get paid anywhere near minimum wage for their work after expenses - why don't they get tipped?  
 
What about the mechanics at a garage? Shouldn't they get tipped too?  
 
The staff at a clothing store - you make them get up on a ladder multiple times to check sizes or get a display down and bring you sizes in the change room AND clean up and refold everything you tried on after them - they nearly never get tipped.  
 
What if you go into a home improvement store and the salesperson there drives samples to your home, why should they not get a tip for over and above service? They may be getting an hourly wage, but if they use their own car they probably are not getting compensated.  
 
Tipping needs to be absolutely at the customers' discretion for a job done over and above what they are paid to do, and never, ever should it be added automatically nor should businesses make staff pool them. It has gotten ridiculous.

some people never deserve tips and some deserve tips? You tip for a good job so does it mean construction workers, office workers, emergency workers, grocery workers and some others do not do a good job?

I am confused on those that say they tip when they get excellent service. What is that? I always hand the machine to my wife because I won't tip. When I go into a restaurant I expect to either seat myself or have a host to seat me. I would expect the server to ask for drinks and tell us what or if there are any specials, and know what is the soup of the day or even what soups are available. Get my drinks and bring them back. Take our order, when order ready, bring to the table. Between food service as they walk by ask to have any extra drinks ordered or coffee topped up. Serve food, ask how food is, clean up when food is done. Ask for desert, get desert, give bill. Is that not what a typical serving job would be doing? What is excellent above that to want to give them another average 5-10 dollar tip (if not more)?  
 
The only time I have wanted to tip is in a bar. I have been out on a busy night where the bartender is swamped with people. I give a decent tip each round I buy, during the night when they see me trying to order a drink they shout to me what I want before I even talk, I confirm, they hand me my drinks over everyone else. That is service that I would pay extra for to sort of be like VIP service. I jump the line.

I work in the serving business. And by no means expect a tip. I am getting paid my wage, not necessary for others to pay on top of that, although I am greatful for when it happens lol I have worked a much more physically demanding job and obviously never got a tip, so I don't expect it now when I am doing less work... I also never tip when I go out.... I was curious of the origin of tipping (I enjoy finding the meaning behind why I do things instead of just accepting things because others do).. anyways, T.I.P means To Insure Promptitude, money was slipped to waiters in taverns to make sure they got their drinks promptly.... later was accepted into north American dinning culture... so really, it doesn't even make sense to tip at the end of a meal, based off the origin of the whole tipping thing... really, we should be doing it like a previous poster does, tip the bartender to expect your drink faster...

The restaurant doesn't pocket the 3-5% - it goes to 'tip pool' where it is dispersed amongst cooks, bartenders, etc who also provide a part of the service. The server pays it regardless of whether they got a tip or not. So it's not uncommon to get a $1000 sales night, especially with the sale of alcohol, immediately the server is giving up $30 (or I guess $50 if it was 5% though in my experience it's usually about 3%) in tips before they go home for the night. Effectively they are paying to serve you if you don't tip, which is fine if they did a crap job, but if they did a good job it's a nice gesture to show some appreciation.  
 
Luckily, most people do tip, and the server can go home with a little extra for their little bit extra effort that night.

Ill consider tipping more after people start going to farms to tip them for a tasty steak they had, or a nice plump turkey, or a pint of beer.

MacBook said "The restaurant doesn't pocket the 3-5% - it goes to 'tip pool' where it is dispersed amongst cooks, bartenders, etc who also provide a part of the service. The server pays it regardless of whether they got a tip or not. So it's not uncommon to get a $1000 sales night, especially with the sale of alcohol, immediately the server is giving up $30 (or I guess $50 if it was 5% though in my experience it's usually about 3%) in tips before they go home for the night. Effectively they are paying to serve you if you don't tip, which is fine if they did a crap job, but if they did a good job it's a nice gesture to show some appreciation.     Luckily, most people do tip, and the server can go home with a little extra for their little bit extra effort that night. "

I have seen on fancier places higher tip outs to the cook. I have had good food and crappy service. I ask what the tip out is to the kitchen and just give that. Highest I have seen is 7%.

I always tip any delivery people ! Usually , they work just for the tips !

I never expect a tip, and try to give the best service I can with a smile. However, something I do expect of guests is respect.