.. nahi , I was a kind hearted manager ..kasam sai ..
I did give them the fair share of what they all deserved … in the three years that i was there , we had no more then just 12% employee turnover rate ! that was one huge success and indicative of the fact that the staff loved working for us …
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tip tip tip … tip remind me of murad … in old drama serial … guest house 
It seems as though nobody commenting here as actually waited tables or worked in or owned a food service establishment. I have. So here is how it is in America:
Waitstaff are paid slightly less than minimum wage, because it is the custom here to tip waitstaff. If the place has buspeople, the waiter/waitresses will share 20% of their tips with them. A good busser makes the waitperson's job easier & helps to make happier customers and bigger tips. Often shifts are short, so they don't really have a full time job.
If it is a slow day, they all work less, and earn less tips; if it's a busy day, maybe they make more because they are serving more people (but maybe not proportionately more because they can't provide the best service if they're too busy): that is the economic justice of the tipping system. Think of it as production bonuses.
You people who have salaried jobs and a slow day: is your income impacted? Probably not. And your compensation is built in to your salary.
Some of you get year-end bonuses or commissions on sales: waiter's tips are the same thing.
For a restaurant owner, wages are a huge expense, make-or-break actually, even with waitstaff hourly wages so low. If you want them to give the waitstaff higher wages, they will have to raise their menu prices: are you willing to pay more?
I don't believe in adding the gratuity to the bill except in cases of large parties (8 or more). Working a large table is much harder work, and if one or two of the people there (if it's a split ticket) don't put on a decent tip, the waitperson is getting cheated. Sometimes it can be a misunderstanding about who is covering the tip, so it is better to have the gratuity included in such cases.
I don't tip the hairdresser because that custom stems from the time when ladies' hairdressers were their maids doing an extra service. I don't look at hair stylists as servants -- I consider them professionals who set their own prices.
Thank you for bringing in the staff perspective. You've said pretty much all the things that I was trying to say in general business terms. Although I haven't worked in a food service staff position, I've had friends and family who have, and listened to their stories - so I know it's a really demanding and yet unthankful line of work.
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I do hate it when an automatic gratuity is added to your bill - in some restaurants its as high as 18% to 20%.
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I have a tip calculator on my phone 
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^hmmmmm I need that option too!!!!! :)
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I tip pretty decent, only because I know that importance of it from the recipient point of view. I used to park cars, valet .. and was getting minimum hourly rate and was working for tips, mainly.
To my hairdresser, I pay about 33 percent (they charge $15, I give them 20 dollar bill). in restaurants, I always round off the figure to next 10 or 15 .. so if the bill is $33.23 .. my tip would be such that my total will become $40.00. Higher the bill, bigger the rounding off would be in my case.
Same here bro, :k:
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oh but you know I have seen the difference in tipping amount if the recipient is a guy or a girl.
For guys - usually they do get a better tip than women in same profession. I am guilty of discriminating :( (before that is - not any more)
For example:
Haircut - if a woman is doing a haircut - they get $3
but if it was a guy then it would be $5... (This was in my college day - but now I tip them both equally).
My theory was simple at that time - A MAN has to SHARE that $5 bucks with his family and responsibilities - be it girlfriend whatever... BUT a girl does NOT have to SHARE. They get to keep it for themselves!
So that's why the discrimination.
... and seriously I never mind that a guy in my profession gets MORE pay than me - because he has THAT MANY MORE latched on to him. He NEVER gets to keep the entire amount to himself.
I love guys :)
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difference lies coz of the service they ver providing .. gal can nvr ever provide the kinda service tht guyzz do .....Faraq tou perhta hai :p
no way man! jaaaaaaggoooo - shayed aapne aaj chai kaam pi hai! LOL - (because you are always w/ chai n newspaper)
Women also provide excellent service…
If that’s how a guy thinks - LIKE YOU - then I will have to RETHINK my tipping issue. I cannot let a man’s ego -LIKE YOURS - rule my bechari simple si thinking
I told you - I love guys - now you are making me think otherwise!
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u love them coz u hav alot of justifiable reasonssssssssssssss .....u rnt love thm for me :(
oh but you know I have seen the difference in tipping amount if the recipient is a guy or a girl.
For guys - usually they do get a better tip than women in same profession. I am guilty of discriminating :( (before that is - not any more)
For example:
Haircut - if a woman is doing a haircut - they get $3
but if it was a guy then it would be $5... (This was in my college day - but now I tip them both equally).
My theory was simple at that time - A MAN has to SHARE that $5 bucks with his family and responsibilities - be it girlfriend whatever... BUT a girl does NOT have to SHARE. They get to keep it for themselves!
So that's why the discrimination.
... and seriously I never mind that a guy in my profession gets MORE pay than me - because he has THAT MANY MORE latched on to him. He NEVER gets to keep the entire amount to himself.
I love guys :)
Don't you realize how many working women are supporting their families? Not to mention supporting their husband because he hasn't got a job. Not to mention taking care of their mothers? Sheesh! What world do you live in??
Don't you realize how many working women are supporting their families? Not to mention supporting their husband because he hasn't got a job. Not to mention taking care of their mothers? Sheesh! What world do you live in??
I know I shouldn't be generalizing, because each situation is different.
I know I was only tipping discriminatorily based on a fairy tale situation... meaning girls don't have that many responsibilities...
I know I was wrong.... I have corrected myself... and tip girls fairly too now:)
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So how is tipping in Pakistan? does it even exist?
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Okay so me and hubby went for lunch at a restaurant here.
Food was good but service was CRAP. So incredibly slow, the waitress showed up maybe twice, rest of the times we relied on busboys for whatever we needed. i mean we had to ask like 8 times for a glass of water before we could get any.
Bill comes, i left 50 cents tip. And i wrote on teh receipt: "For increidbly SLOW SERVICE".
Not like ill be going back there :D
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Okay so me and hubby went for lunch at a restaurant here.
Food was good but service was CRAP. So incredibly slow, the waitress showed up maybe twice, rest of the times we relied on busboys for whatever we needed. i mean we had to ask like 8 times for a glass of water before we could get any.
Bill comes, i left 50 cents tip. And i wrote on teh receipt: "For increidbly SLOW SERVICE".
Not like ill be going back there :D
plz they didnt deserve a tip...tip has to be earned!!
by the way i thought it was 67 cents :)
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same diff. :D