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Originally Posted by Shimpy
Tipping is and was originally set up for exceptional service. When I walk into Vinnie's Pizza to pick up my pizza that I ordered on the phone and the person behind the counter hands it to me and rings up the register he or she doesn't deserve a 15 to 20% tip, regardless of what he or she is paid. A tip for pushing a few keys on the register? Where's the exceptional service?
The example of the pilot above is getting paid 10x the taxi driver but carries 10x the people, 100x times the distance and has 1000x times the training. Are we suppose to make all employees paid the same by tipping or not?
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You are right on part of this. Tipping WAS for exceptional service. Tipping today IS the way servers in restaurants make their living. Aside from truly high end restaurants, and we have none of them in or near The Villages, it is not a great living. Your servers work double and even triple shifts to make ends meet. Here in TV these are kids going through college, single moms, seniors who need a little extra income, etc. These are people working for a living and not going on welfare. They have earned your help, not your scorn.
Let me say again, if you cannot afford or do not want to tip do not go to or order out from restaurants. Buy your food from the grocery store and cook it yourself, go to McDonalds or BK or order a pizza (remember to tip the driver). Do not short the hardworking people who serve you. This continues to perpetuate the image we have in the community outside TV as being both greedy and stingy.