Times are tough, and you also may balk at paying a tip these days, when your paycheck is already strained. But remember that waiters and waitresses are working people too. Below are some recommendations about tipping customs in the 21st Century.
Stiffing the help
As reported in Detroit News, one diner in California recently stiffed a waitress, leaving a card rather than a tip. On the card the deadbeat wrote, "I must cut back on discretionary spending and gratuities. I wish it didn't have to be this way for both of us."
Needed tips
A lot of the time, waiters and waitresses need tips to survive and depend on them.
Lennie Copeland from Record Searchlight talked to a restaurant worker who said, "If you can afford to eat out, you can afford to tip. Otherwise, stick to macaroni and cheese at home."
Copeland explained that $7.50 an hour is the federal minimum wage, but restaurant workers make much less than that. It is expected to come out to $15 to $20 an hour with tips, but about $2.13 an hour could be the actual pay.
Employees have to share tips with other people in the restaurant usually, according to Wes Babcock at Cattlemen's Steakhouse. On top of it, the Internal Revenue Service expects that employees are getting tips and needs a minimum 8 percent for tax purposes. Then there is the 12 percent rule where the IRS will look into a business that is reporting less than 12 percent.
Learning tipping standards
Here are few common recommendations for tipping.
A few older diners may remember when 10 percent was customary for almost all tipping. Today a little more is anticipated. According to etiquette experts, today it is customary to give 15 to 20 percent of the pre-tax bill to waiters and waitresses.
You only need a five to 10 percent tips at a buffet, according to Tipping.org, since you are serving yourself.
People who spend less than $30 at a coffee or deli counter only have to put about 50 cents to $2 to the tipping jar if it is there.
It is nice to give a 10 percent tip to the counter person whenever you get a to-go order at a restaurant, according to Tipthepizzaguy.
If that pizza is delivered, however, Tipthepizzaguy says 15 percent is more like it, with a minimum tip of $3.
Stiffing the help
As reported in Detroit News, one diner in California recently stiffed a waitress, leaving a card rather than a tip. On the card the deadbeat wrote, "I must cut back on discretionary spending and gratuities. I wish it didn't have to be this way for both of us."
Needed tips
A lot of the time, waiters and waitresses need tips to survive and depend on them.
Lennie Copeland from Record Searchlight talked to a restaurant worker who said, "If you can afford to eat out, you can afford to tip. Otherwise, stick to macaroni and cheese at home."
Copeland explained that $7.50 an hour is the federal minimum wage, but restaurant workers make much less than that. It is expected to come out to $15 to $20 an hour with tips, but about $2.13 an hour could be the actual pay.
Employees have to share tips with other people in the restaurant usually, according to Wes Babcock at Cattlemen's Steakhouse. On top of it, the Internal Revenue Service expects that employees are getting tips and needs a minimum 8 percent for tax purposes. Then there is the 12 percent rule where the IRS will look into a business that is reporting less than 12 percent.
Learning tipping standards
Here are few common recommendations for tipping.
A few older diners may remember when 10 percent was customary for almost all tipping. Today a little more is anticipated. According to etiquette experts, today it is customary to give 15 to 20 percent of the pre-tax bill to waiters and waitresses.
You only need a five to 10 percent tips at a buffet, according to Tipping.org, since you are serving yourself.
People who spend less than $30 at a coffee or deli counter only have to put about 50 cents to $2 to the tipping jar if it is there.
It is nice to give a 10 percent tip to the counter person whenever you get a to-go order at a restaurant, according to Tipthepizzaguy.
If that pizza is delivered, however, Tipthepizzaguy says 15 percent is more like it, with a minimum tip of $3.
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