YIKES! A woman named Monica Covington has started a petition hoping to stop people from eating at a North Carolina restaurant after Kanpai Japanese restaurant in Winston Salem eventually banned her after asking her if she was going to leave a tip before she sat down, because they felt she was such a bad tipper in the past. Do you think the restaurant was right here or should she still be allowed to tip as much as she wants?
If your bill is $120 for two people let us know how much you’re tipping in the comments section.
And should a restaurant be able to ban somebody for repeatedly not tipping enough???
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14 bucks. also 120 for only two people guess the lifefiles pockets are deep cuz the most im doing is 60.
b… people really need to learn how to tip. waiters arent serving you for the hell of it. pay them like you want to be paid. think about how much you get paid per hour. is a 5 dollar tip enough if you sat at a seat for 3 hours? learn how to tip.
$20. And tipping is an option. Go Watch Resivor Dogs again…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38
love that movie!
I would give the standard 15% – $18. But this is why I stopped eating out at restaurants and make well cooked meals at home. These restaurants can’t keep raising their prices and expecting us to pay their servers who are clearly unhappy cause they have crappy jobs. No waiters aren’t serving us for the hell of it. Its their job, you are getting paid. Not much but still getting paid. My tip is a thank you for doing a good job.
Verbal tippers are complete assholes. Tipping is part of the dining out experience and if you don’t want to tip go to McDonalds.
But they get paid less than minimum wage because of tipping. So if no one tips then they just get 2.50 an hour and that doesn’t make sense. I know you wouldn’t want to only get 2.50 an hour. Whether your working while in college or its a side job. But I do agree with the 15 to 18%.
If she doesnt tip it’s her choice! If the restaurant wants their staff to be tipped by all tables then make it a ‘Built-in’ tip on the bill of 15% exactly how they do it in Europe. Case closed.
The restaurants now days found a way to get someone else to pay for their employee’s wages, so instead of giving more than min. wage to cooking and hosting staff, they make the server give a percentage of EACH customer’s total bill amount to the back of the house staff. So if the server does not get tipped, the server LOOSES time and MONEY out of their own pocket for serving you. Therefore tipping is a MUST! Servers never get raises and make only min. wage, so the tips help them financially to make it toward achieving their life goals and paying their bills.
10-15% is concidered a must and decent. IF the server/restaurant gave u an unenjoyable/poor experience than u should tip the min. 5% so its not costing the server personal money out of his or her’s own pocket.
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in my opinion, bad service deserves no tip; whether or not this hurts the server is irrelevant. it is not difficult to give good or even ‘ok’ service. people who actually have experience know this and usually tip better in general.
If restaurants paid their staff a decent wage and did away with tipping two things would happen: first, the cost of the food would go up 50% to cover wages, taxes and workmans comp.: second, servers would have no incentive to bother to do a good job. Go to Europe and see how good the service is. Ever notice how most cashiers at your favorite grocery or clothing stores are clearly unhappy and don’t care if you know it? THEY DON’T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO HAVE A DECENT LIFE. People on welfare get more money than the local gas station attendant. AND ANOTHER THING: If the hostess is rude, your food takes a long time because the restaurant is busy, etc-don’t dock the server’s tip-it isn’t their fault. They don’t cook the food or have any control over anyone else. A server does not need to be a circus clown or comedian to get 20%, they only have to be knowledgeable, courteous and get your order right. There are very few servers out there that give bad enough service to warrant no tip, they don’t keep their job very long-it’s bad for business.
Chesco- “If she doesnt tip it’s her choice! If the restaurant wants their staff to be tipped by all tables then make it a ‘Built-in’ tip on the bill of 15% exactly how they do it in Europe. Case closed.”
I completely agree. And they actually make less than minimum wage.
10-15% is decent???? 10-15% would render me following you to your car and asking you repeatedly if the service was okay, just to make you feel like an ass. do us all a favor and STAY HOME.
We don’t have a built-in tip on the bill here in Germany and it’s a rare sight that anyone gives more than 10%. The servers here don’t have to give a percentage back to the restaurant and can keep all of their tips.
We don’t have a built-in tip on the bill here in Germany and it’s a rare sight that anyone gives more than 10%. The servers here don’t have to give a percentage back to the restaurant and can keep all of their tips.
Um……..it’s 18-20% people. I serve. I know. And by the way, most servers make around $2.13-minimum wage an hour. And yes we do tip out food runners, expoditers, bartenders, host, and even busers. Depends on the resturant. And after claiming all my tips, taxes eat up my check. So I don’t even get a check and depend on cash to live.
this is what you get fat, clown makeup wearing bitch. make your own meals, that way your cheap ass doesn’t have to worry about tipping. that’s what service is about, doing something that someone else cannot or does not want to do… and that deserves compensation. it looks like the only option is to force the tip into the price, that way you fucking cheapskates can’t escape it.
Wow! That is a hilarious description. LOL
For a 120$ bill at a restaurant I would leave at minimum 25$, unless the server was a jackass, rude and slow. Then I would still leave 10%, but complain to the manager, so that that server is either forced to get better or loses his/her job.
forced to lose his or her job?!?!? what the hell is wrong with you?? who do you think you are to say someone should lose their job?? what constitutes good service?? do you think it’s okay for you to think someone deserves to LOSE THEIR JOB based on how YOU think they did as a server?? i’d bet a lot of money that you are an awful person to serve, one of those people who think servers are the scum of the earth, your personal slave to order around for the few hours you sit at their table. OF COURSE you get bad service, thinking the way you do!! servers don’t want to be walked all over, and as a server and bartender myself, i don’t put up with ignorant snobs. and guess what? i make PLENTY of money.
Lets get with the times people! 18% is STANDARD now. For Good service that should be the minimum. Great service can easily warrant a 20% tip or higher. If your server goes above an beyond for you, do the same. Bad service? Then and only then i can understand. But if you get good service and leave no tip you are ignorant and rude and shouldn’t come back. You dont have to tip at Taco Bell. Here’s some food for thought: If I serve you numerous drinks with good service, then you dont tip me at all, then i have to tip out the bartender who made all those drinks, then I AM ACTUALLY PAYING to serve YOU! Imagine that!
$20 tip for $120 bill for two. Good service or not. Don’t be a cheap ass. Makes
‘you” look bad
believe it or not, $20 on $120 STILL makes you look bad in the eyes of a server. wake up.
people need to make a living! i would tip $18-22 for $120 bill. even if it was bad service i’d still tip 8-10%.
This is funny I tip whatever the hell I wanna tip not into other’s telling me how I should spend my money!
WEll i live in New York City so i don’t tip less than 20% …if its exceptional service i’ll even leave 25%
Tipping less than 15%…just don’t even go out to eat….order take out and you can server yourself at home for free
I eat out all the time and I spent about $120 to $150 every time I go to any restaurant(usually Italian) with my wife. Standard tip for a restaurant is 20%. Therefore, I will give $24 in this case. I tip 15% if, I am in a club, lounge or bar.
20% is standard in a restaurant, bar, lounge, strip club, dance club, dive bar, martini bar…ugh.