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I cook, no need to order in, so Zerro.
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a coder and a cook? A man after my own heart:D
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It says a lot more about you than them. For your sake, I hope that there is not a particular restaurant, with table service, that you use often. Some of those stories are based on truth... |
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I learned from my dad growing up that you always tip well unless the service was horrible. I've only seen the old man not leave his usual $3 - $5 tip one time in my life. Usually he gets great service though. It seems like no matter where we go he knows most of the waitresses working in the place...he even buys Christmas gifts for a lot of them. >.> His girlfriend of many years has never been too happy about that. :D |
Usually depends on the weather and if it's a holiday.
I'll tip more in bad weather or a holiday when mostly everyone else is off. Guess I'm $5.00 on a nice day which is usually around 20%. |
My husband will tip around 30% or to the nearest ball part figure. He'll order a buy one get one free at a cost of 11.99 and give the pizza delivery guy 15 sometimes 20. I never eat takeaway food, so I have never tipped.
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Speaking as someone who used to deliver pizzas...
I don't tip 20% but usually either round up or throw in a few extra singles if it's something like $19 or $29, etc. I always made min. wage plus tips. Sometimes I'd do better than the waitresses making $2-3 per hour plus tips and sometimes they'd do better than me. I never got reimbursed for gas although this was back in the cheap gas times of the late 90s. And yes, I did know exactly which houses tipped better than others. Some I could tell you their exact order without looking at the ticket. One house would always pay with either a $100 bill or all in coin. It was way out in the boonies and the tips were either non-existant or sucked. If you forgot to bring change for a $100, you had to drive all the way back out with their change. If it was a slow night and I knew that the house wouldn't tip, I took my time. If I knew they tipped well, I took short cuts or ignored speed limits. (I always took note of where/when I saw the town cops) If it was a busy night and I knew the house wouldn't tip, they either got delivered last or I got to them quick just so I could make up the lost money getting back for another delivery which would likely tip better. |
Over here in Australia (in my experience) tipping is virtually non-existent. Hospitality related workers get paid their wage and sometimes there may be a small tip, but that is generally unusual. Of course, no-one gets paid $2-$3 an hour, the minimum wage is more like $8 or $9, with most restaurants paying their waiters/waitresses $12-$20 an hour. I must say though, I think the idea of reducing the standard wage and having tips as a normal practice would be good, mainly to increase the performance of workers. Australian workers (in hospitality) are typically lazy and I presume service standards are a fraction of the quality that would be present in the US.
I never get food delivered at all, but I used to work in a pizza store. PS. The pay is obviously in AUD, so conversion is probably necessary to make a proper comparison. |
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