When I was young tipping was at 10% and there was no pressure to give one and it was for good service received. We had a nice meal for $50, the tip was $5. Now to have the same comparable meal is over $150, if at 10% tip that would be $15. The meal went up three times and the tip would go up three times, seems fair, keeping up with inflation. But now the expected tip on the machines is 15-25% or even higher. So average that it would be 20%, now the tip would be $30 for that same meal and I am guessing the amount of service is still the same. So now that being, now the tip is twice the inflation rate of the same meal. If I am getting exclusive service Ok. But that server is working likely 4 other tables at the same time and if every table had about the same bill, their total tips could add up to $150 in about 1-1.5 hours. That’s more than most highly educated professionals make. Now in many businesses you are paying for the meal/service before you get served, it has nothing to do with whether you had good service or not. In this case if you don’t tip and if you get a vengeful server what other questionable goodie’s might you get in your meal. Just saying. All businesses should pay their employees a proper wage, don’t put it on their hopefully “valued” customers to be pressured into it, even though the customer still pays in the end. I don’t frequent places that push for tips, I do tip but only a couple of places because I really really like the food and the service and they are small mom and pop places. I truly feel like a valued customer there.
Two things that bug me: 1. Why don’t they back out the tax when they have the tip options on the screen? Maybe they should forward the tax tip to CRA for their great service? 2. If 2 people dine together and one orders a $25 burger and the second person orders a $50 steak, I think the staff do the same work for both meals, yet a tip twice the size is built into the machine for the steak. It would make sense if twice the work was involved, but I’m not sure any extra work is required
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When I was young tipping was at 10% and there was no pressure to give one and it was for good service received. We had a nice meal for $50, the tip was $5. Now to have the same comparable meal is over $150, if at 10% tip that would be $15. The meal went up three times and the tip would go up three times, seems fair, keeping up with inflation. But now the expected tip on the machines is 15-25% or even higher. So average that it would be 20%, now the tip would be $30 for that same meal and I am guessing the amount of service is still the same. So now that being, now the tip is twice the inflation rate of the same meal. If I am getting exclusive service Ok. But that server is working likely 4 other tables at the same time and if every table had about the same bill, their total tips could add up to $150 in about 1-1.5 hours. That’s more than most highly educated professionals make. Now in many businesses you are paying for the meal/service before you get served, it has nothing to do with whether you had good service or not. In this case if you don’t tip and if you get a vengeful server what other questionable goodie’s might you get in your meal. Just saying. All businesses should pay their employees a proper wage, don’t put it on their hopefully “valued” customers to be pressured into it, even though the customer still pays in the end. I don’t frequent places that push for tips, I do tip but only a couple of places because I really really like the food and the service and they are small mom and pop places. I truly feel like a valued customer there.
Two things that bug me:
1. Why don’t they back out the tax when they have the tip options on the screen? Maybe they should forward the tax tip to CRA for their great service?
2. If 2 people dine together and one orders a $25 burger and the second person orders a $50 steak, I think the staff do the same work for both meals, yet a tip twice the size is built into the machine for the steak. It would make sense if twice the work was involved, but I’m not sure any extra work is required
Not to mention going out less often as the price + tip is too much.