I am on the road 30+ weeks a year and my employer picks up expenses including tips. In MT 90% of the time when they see a tip on the CC receipt they pull it out of the till and set it aside.
My Rant! TIP jars at fast food joints!
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I am on the road 30+ weeks a year and my employer picks up expenses including tips. In MT 90% of the time when they see a tip on the CC receipt they pull it out of the till and set it aside.
labworm
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Long ago in a far away universe (late 70s - NW Arkansas)
I was part of a pipe smoking group that would spend a few late evening hours at a shop with the bottomless coffee cups. (remember Sambo's) I knew the husband of one of the waitresses. He asked me about our LARGE tips at the table. The women wondered if we were up to something. Simple explanation. We figured that if we were not occupying the table there would be others that would eat and also tip. We figured that we should cover the lost tips. Explained that we simply viewed it as table rent.
Next visit all of the waitresses came by and thanked us for the explanation and the tips.
Long ago in a far away universe (late 70s - NW Arkansas)
I was part of a pipe smoking group that would spend a few late evening hours at a shop with the bottomless coffee cups. (remember Sambo's) I knew the husband of one of the waitresses. He asked me about our LARGE tips at the table. The women wondered if we were up to something. Simple explanation. We figured that if we were not occupying the table there would be others that would eat and also tip. We figured that we should cover the lost tips. Explained that we simply viewed it as table rent.
Next visit all of the waitresses came by and thanked us for the explanation and the tips.
I am not offended by tips in fast food places. At the same time, I feel no compulsion to tip. I have never encountered behavior like that reported by the OP. If I did, there would be no tip. I did frequent a Subway for lunch for a while. There was a sandwich I liked to order, and a kid behind the counter who was personable and remembered my usual order and how I liked it made. I tipped him, usually a buck on a $6.00 sandwich.
There are a number of restaurants in town that I frequent. I am well received there, and know a lot about the servers' families and pets. They give me good service, and I tip them well.
Several of our kids have worked as food and drink servers. My son tends bar in a music club. He makes a bit over minimum wage, but has done well enough on tips to buy a duplex and support his family. My stepdaughter did very well as a waitress in an upscale downtown restaurant. She has been able to put herself through school on her earnings. Both of them tip very well when they are out, and watch me like a hawk to make sure my tips are up to snuff. I try not to disappoint them.
They have been fortunate. When I was driving a transit bus, I saw lots of kids riding to and from work every day, in their fast-food uniforms. I know they are working for peanuts, and often trying to support families on their earnings. I don't mind leaving them a buck or two here and there if I think they are doing their job well.
There are a number of restaurants in town that I frequent. I am well received there, and know a lot about the servers' families and pets. They give me good service, and I tip them well.
Several of our kids have worked as food and drink servers. My son tends bar in a music club. He makes a bit over minimum wage, but has done well enough on tips to buy a duplex and support his family. My stepdaughter did very well as a waitress in an upscale downtown restaurant. She has been able to put herself through school on her earnings. Both of them tip very well when they are out, and watch me like a hawk to make sure my tips are up to snuff. I try not to disappoint them.
They have been fortunate. When I was driving a transit bus, I saw lots of kids riding to and from work every day, in their fast-food uniforms. I know they are working for peanuts, and often trying to support families on their earnings. I don't mind leaving them a buck or two here and there if I think they are doing their job well.
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sigp220.45
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As a former pizza delivery guy of many years standing, I offer up these words of advice to anyone who stiffs the pizza guy :
Beware the special sauce.
Beware the special sauce.
My group used to frequent Sambo's every Saturday after the Friday festivities. We had a habit of out bidding each other on the tip. Tips would out do the check by 3x.
Sambo's always had the best waitresses.
I bet you all tip well at Hooters. 
My son worked in a fast food place and he warned our family and friends about people that do what you did. You are not the only one that has said they did this to people.
I don't understand this.
sigp220.45
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I didn't say I did it. I never bothered, but I know plenty of guys who did.
If you can't afford a couple of bucks for a tip you should put a frozen pizza in the oven. The delivery guy usually doesn 't get the buck they add on as a delivery charge.
Glad to hear you are not one of those people.
What about the poor people that want to buy a pizza for their kids that lives check to check? Is there not compassion for those that have to save up for a long time just to afford the price of a pizza, but can't afford the extra money to give someone that is already paid to do the delivery of said pizza?
Not everyone in Louisiana is rich, but most would like a pizza every once in a while to treat the kids.
My poor button.
M3Stuart
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Sorry, but when I tip a fast food worker, all I'm doing is subsidizing corporate profits. If the workers require higher wages to keep working there, then that's the business owners problem and not mine. (I'm obviously ignoring that this might have been a franchise owned by some guy losing his rear-end).
OP
coltle6920
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Man,what a bunch of ****!! Are you a politician? You fail to offer even one example of the "overwhelming evidence" you suggest is out there.
more education=more pay
It certainly does or at least greatly increases ones chances at a better and more skilled job.I don't know of anyone who became a doctor or lawyer with just a high school education.
hard work begets rewards
I certainly benefitted from this myself with promotions or bigger raises than those around me.
people who are rich are to be idolized
This goes against one of the ten commandments.I don't idolize any man for his worth.I can respect him if he made his wealth honestly.I can learn from him if I aspired to the same lofty goals.
the poor are deserving of their plight and not of sympathy or compassion
There is plenty of sympathy and compassion for those less fortunate.Surprisingly it's even there for those who spend their lives wallowing in their failures with no attempt to better themselves even when help is offered.
If this is mythology in your eyes then so be it! It's your idealogy that keeps people chained up with no hope by telling them that education and hard work is for saps.
I really starting to enjoy this...Normally I would need a joint in my mouth to tolerate this nonsense!
After thinking about it I guess Tipping is as much for me as the server. Unless the service was downright rotten they get a tip. The better the service the better the tip. Kind of gives me a good feeling.
Also I was at a Subway the other day. I ordered the lunch meat trio on whole wheat bread. What do you know? It tasted like lunch meat. I've had their tuna salad sandwich and it tasted like tuna, likewise the sliced turkey. Now if it didn't taste like lunch meat or tuna etc I'd say it was bad. It ain't.
If you are gonna call it bad on a public forum then justify your statement.
Also I was at a Subway the other day. I ordered the lunch meat trio on whole wheat bread. What do you know? It tasted like lunch meat. I've had their tuna salad sandwich and it tasted like tuna, likewise the sliced turkey. Now if it didn't taste like lunch meat or tuna etc I'd say it was bad. It ain't.
If you are gonna call it bad on a public forum then justify your statement.
OP
coltle6920
Member
I know I never badmouthed the food.I use to buy 2 footlongs thinking I'd save one for later.Didn't happen! At 63 yrs old I can still pack away the food if it's good.Before I die I'd like to speak to the clown who determines portion sizes on packages.
Dominus_Lex
Member
I have always been in the habit of putting a buck or two into the jar figuring the kids make next to nothing, and as such every extra buck is helpful. That is until my H.S. age son took a job at a local pizza joint and explained to me that the counter girls pocketed all the extra $ and did not share with the folks back in the kitchen. That said I tend to ask now if the $ is split between the entire staff, with mixed answers, the best being "our manager gets the tip jar".
As to the original message, a tip is 100% the choice of the person giving it, for the kid to toss the change in the jar is unacceptable.
As to the original message, a tip is 100% the choice of the person giving it, for the kid to toss the change in the jar is unacceptable.
I bet you all tip well at Hooters.
The last time I went to Hooter's, the waitress was absolutely terrible. Our drinks ran out, and when we told her, they still didn't come. They finally brought my friend another beer right when he finished his meal. He told them to take it back, he was finished and didn't need it now. We weren't alone, two tables close to us talked about how bad she was, and one of those was a table of young guys she was flirting with. The only tip that bimbo got from us was the .14 that she short-changed me. I don't know if she felt robbed after we left, but I sure did. I will never go back. Oh, and this happened early on a Sunday afternoon, it wasn't crowded.
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You are the one who is wrong. A tip that is taken is not a tip it is theft. The one receiving the service is the one who determines it a tip is deserved and how much it should be not the service provider. Had your total been under $10 and the cashier put the rest of the $20 in the in the tip jar would you still feel the same?
I've never been in one. Walked by 2 last month in Fl, one in Clearwater Beach and one in Johns Pass. My wife gave me the evil eye, so I moved on.
Besides I'm not one for fried or greasy food.
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