I feel like this should be on a card in the little pouch on the plane over, next to the emergency instructions and sick bagHere are the tacit rules as I know them
Give $1 to your bartender per drink, whether the drink is $3 or $10. If it's a really expensive drink, like $10-20, or the service is exceptional, you can give $2.
Basically same with cafes. Get a coffee? Give a dollar. Whether the coffee is $3 or $6. With the digital payscreens these days they often have 15/18/20% options which makes things slightly trickier. If 15% is like... sixty cent tip? Give 20%.
Giving a coin-based tip is often seen as rude, especially if the tip is less than a dollar. It comes off as "take this dirty grubby pocket change off my hands." Also, because they can't tell how many coins you put in the jar, just whether you put coins or a bill, they'll automatically assume you're a cheapskate. Don't even think of putting bills and coins, because in the off-chance that they hear the coins clink but don't see the bill, they'll assume you gave a shitty tip.
If you get a full meal somewhere, cafe or restaurant or whatever, give 15%.
If you go to the barber, give about 10-20%. If I get a $15 hair cut I'll just give them $20 because that's such a good deal.
If you take a shuttle or car and someone helps you with your bag, give them $1-5 depending how helpful they were.
Everything else you don't tip. You don't tip grocery baggers in the States, although you do in Mexico. You don't tip cashiers at non-food/beverage establishments under almost any circumstance. Is this fair? No. Does it make any sense? No. But that's how it is.
You're also not allowed to complain about tipping culture, or even to say things like "wow maybe if we paid these people a fair wage then we wouldn't need to make every pleasant social interaction a financial exchange." Or even to say things like "isn't it weird that if you work a minimum wage job at a gas station, you don't get any tips, but if you pour coffee for somebody you automatically deserve one?" Don't say any of that. Just shut up and get your wallet out.
I noticed that when I saw the photo but couldn't be bothered doing the extra but if work. This is why version is so good.
i bought him a pint. cultureit's also good practice to tip any member of sonic youth if you see them walking around. except thurston moore coz he's moved to the land of the tipless
I bet you didi bought him a pint. culture
You laugh now but soon enough you'll be telling us "we have always tipped museum cashiers" and wanging on about how they are exploited by evil gallery owners, telling us if we give em less than 25% not to be surprised if every time we wanna see the blockbuster painting it gets removed for cleaning - and we'll deserve it too.That's really funny you tried to tip a cashier at a museum gift shop. That'sr eally really funny lol
That's what a tip is!Giving a coin-based tip is often seen as rude, especially if the tip is less than a dollar. It comes off as "take this dirty grubby pocket change off my hands."
What about taxis and people delivering you food? There was that article everywhere last year about some guy delivering food and the customer filled the tip amount was too low so he refused to deliver her dinner...If you get a full meal somewhere, cafe or restaurant or whatever, give 15%.
If you go to the barber, give about 10-20%. If I get a $15 hair cut I'll just give them $20 because that's such a good deal.
If you take a shuttle or car and someone helps you with your bag, give them $1-5 depending how helpful they were.
Everything else you don't tip.
Drunk on the job? No tip from me then I'm afraid.The bartender is drunk anyway he really doesn't care.
No wonder you guys don't know anything about music - the time we spent learning about that kind of stuff you had to dedicate to practising tipping.I think you nailed it
Unless it's about tipping"next time you argue with someone, be happy about that, cos we live in a land where you have that right to disagree").
imagine getting $1 for every drink you serve? youd be minted except american only drink 2 drinks on a night out
I was talking to a girl tonight (in a sports bar no less, you would be proud, a two tier room, the staff were harried and dressed as referees, screens everywhere with people shouting, miami dolphins against someone at basketball, weaving in and out of people to get anywhere, looking for channels through the crowd, bright lights, dudes with muscles everywhere, fries and sliders), and she told me she used to make $300 a night in tips as a waitress in a family-run restaurant in rural Massachusettsimagine getting $1 for every drink you serve? youd be minted except american only drink 2 drinks on a night out
People delivering food are definitely people to tip for me, for practicality and also for the sake of justice. I still find all that so bleak, it's the closest thing in the west to servants, these dudes banging about in the cold on these rickety workhorse ebike, the tech preventing any sense of a relationship, faceless and anonymous, all this food going to fancy buildings full of people paying 5k a month and getting food bought to them five times a week, the food getting dropped off to the doormen in the lobby.What about taxis and people delivering you food? There was that article everywhere last year about some guy delivering food and the customer filled the tip amount was too low so he refused to deliver her dinner...