Tipping

[psy]

How much / do you tip at restaurants with no waitstaff? For example, a local pizza by slice joint gives you your food at the counter when you pay. What is appropriate tipping in that situation?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by psy

How much / do you tip at restaurants with no waitstaff? For example, a local pizza by slice joint gives you your food at the counter when you pay. What is appropriate tipping in that situation?

You don't tip...

[DrPhil]

I tip at the counter just as I do at Cold Stone Creamery. The difference is that the pizza place doesn't sing when I leave a tip. The Cold Stone Creameries that I go to usually do.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I tip at the counter just as I do at Cold Stone Creamery. The difference is that the pizza place doesn't sing when I leave a tip. The Cold Stone Creameries that I go to usually do.

The singing annoys me. When I tip at ColdStone, I tell them up front, "If you start singing, I'm taking it back." They always appreciate a customer that asks them not to sing because (most of them) don't enjoy that part of the job anyway.

[DrPhil]

I like the singing but I don't go to Cold Stone that often. I would hate it if I went more often.

I don't know about the "most of." I know some of them don't look too thrilled. LOL.

[christiangirl]

I've only seen a couple of workers who actually look excited about it. The vast majority have been "not too thrilled."

[crusse10]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I would always prefer to get a cash tip because the money could be taken home that night. My paychecks for 2 weeks were usually under $75 (remember, they have to account for taxes on all of the tips you make, which includes cash tips… so it’s taken out of your tips that you receive from credit/debit cards). Getting a paycheck so small is pretty depressing. But walking out of the restaurant with $80-120 in my pocket on a good night was awesome

I try to give servers cash whenever I can, but it’s not too often. Let’s face it… people generally don’t carry that much cash anymore.

That's odd. As a server, I deal with lots of cash on a nightly basis. At the end of the night, I print out a sheet from the computer. It tells me how much money I owe the store. It takes the total amount of money paid to the store and to taxes and subtracts all credit card tips and your nightly tip-share to the busser and bartender. In this manner, you leave with exactly what you've made in tips minus what you tip out to those that helped you. I'm not sure why you don't get to touch the money from credit cards. Guess it just sounds strange to me.