Well, you can ask around to New Yorkers and see if it's still true...
Tipping in US hotels- help
- Thread starter Ethros
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I'm gonna have to. Last time I was up there not too long ago with three others, we ran up a $225 bill at a very good Italian restaurant. (It was a celebration of sorts. We couldn't do that every day.) We tipped $50 and didn't think twice about it. Now I feel like a piker. Like I need to go back to that restaurant to find the server and say, "No, I'm not cheap. The food was excellent. The service was excellent. Here. Here's another $18."
Just call me a small-town rube from the Washington, DC area.
You tipped more than 20 percent so don't sweat it.
Yeah, no waiter or waitress complains about getting $50 from a table
Well, they might have if there had been 10 of you!
What, are you a restaurant owner or something?
In Canada servers are entitled to minimum wage, and people still tip. Hell, around here most servers make a couple bucks more than the minimum.
What, are you a restaurant owner or something?
In Canada servers are entitled to minimum wage, and people still tip. Hell, around here most servers make a couple bucks more than the minimum.
No, I'm someone who used to tend bar and wait tables, and made a whole lot more than minimum wage doing it because I put effort into it. I sure wouldn't have gone to any extra lengths to make sure someone had a good time for minimum wage and the occasional extra few bucks.
What, are you a restaurant owner or something?
In Canada servers are entitled to minimum wage, and people still tip. Hell, around here most servers make a couple bucks more than the minimum.
No, I'm someone who used to tend bar and wait tables, and made a whole lot more than minimum wage doing it because I put effort into it. I sure wouldn't have gone to any extra lengths to make sure someone had a good time for minimum wage and the occasional extra few bucks.
Tipping levels are about the same here as it is in places where servers get paid less than the minimum. Not quite on the NYC level perhaps, but certainly comparable to most US cities. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
I've lived in NYC for almost 9 years and have never heard of this 30% thing! 20% is standard for sit-in service, and 5$ for delivery.
