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1% tip, on expensive lunch. **and my rant on pay, gratuity, and salary jobs**
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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2754713" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>I tip pretty well (unless I get crap service of course), particularly at the places I frequent, where they know me. If they give special treatment, they get a hell of a tip. If they give me any freebies, I tip most of the value of the freebie... I like to encourage that sort of thing. I had a bartender send some glasses home with me when I commented how I needed to get some like that... he got a real nice tip. </p><p>Some of y'all said how you tip less of a percent if the meal is really expensive... I am frequently the opposite. It is the $200 + meals where I usually get the most superlative service, best drinks, etc., and I am usually drunk, so those are the places where I tip over the standard 20-25% the most frequently. </p><p></p><p>I like to tip in cash whenever possible (especially at the Mexican joints), with the hopes that the money goes straight into their pockets and doesn't go to support the State or any of it's cosmic injustice schemes. </p><p></p><p>As for why tipping exists? I think it started as something European aristocrats did with their servants. In the late 1800s or thereabouts, some Yankees wanted to look sophisticated and European to impress each other, so they started doing it and it caught on. I actually like it, because it requires people to make a value judgment. Something people are taught not to do from a young age in PC society... "don't judge!" Well, the ability to judge, particularly for the worth of a person or the services they provide, is a hugely important survival skill. Plus it's cool that there is a wage system in the country that is mostly outside of governmental control. So rock on, tipping!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2754713, member: 4235"] I tip pretty well (unless I get crap service of course), particularly at the places I frequent, where they know me. If they give special treatment, they get a hell of a tip. If they give me any freebies, I tip most of the value of the freebie... I like to encourage that sort of thing. I had a bartender send some glasses home with me when I commented how I needed to get some like that... he got a real nice tip. Some of y'all said how you tip less of a percent if the meal is really expensive... I am frequently the opposite. It is the $200 + meals where I usually get the most superlative service, best drinks, etc., and I am usually drunk, so those are the places where I tip over the standard 20-25% the most frequently. I like to tip in cash whenever possible (especially at the Mexican joints), with the hopes that the money goes straight into their pockets and doesn't go to support the State or any of it's cosmic injustice schemes. As for why tipping exists? I think it started as something European aristocrats did with their servants. In the late 1800s or thereabouts, some Yankees wanted to look sophisticated and European to impress each other, so they started doing it and it caught on. I actually like it, because it requires people to make a value judgment. Something people are taught not to do from a young age in PC society... "don't judge!" Well, the ability to judge, particularly for the worth of a person or the services they provide, is a hugely important survival skill. Plus it's cool that there is a wage system in the country that is mostly outside of governmental control. So rock on, tipping! [/QUOTE]
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