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Originally Posted by S.Dobrzynski
What's always bothered me is tipping a percentage based on the final bill of the meal. Wait people that serve at typical breakfast restaurants work just as hard, and sometimes harder, than wait staff at typical dinner restaurants, yet receive a pittance since the bottom line of the bill comes to a lot less for breakfast than dinner.
It's something that's bothered me for years. Say a typical breakfast for two comes to $12.00. A 20% tip is $2.40. Compare that to a typical dinner for two comes to $40. A 20% tip is $8. Both the breakfast and dinner wait person did a good job, thus the 20% tip, yet the dinner wait staff got $5.60 more in tips.
You add that up over the course of a 4-6 hour shift and there's a big money difference in what they take home at the end of the shift. I feel it is inherently unfair as the job is the same (i.e, taking your order, bringing your drinks, bringing your meal, refilling your drinks, bringing a to go box, bringing your check). The only thing different is the cost of the meal, and the time of day you're eating it.
Has this ever bothered anyone else? We try to equalize it by giving our breakfast wait person on average what we would typically tip our dinner wait person during a normal dinner out.
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I think the difference is on how many times you can turn the table during a breakfast vs a dinner. I think the table turns many more times during breakfast than at a nice dinner restaurant providing more opportunity for tips.
If the breakfast server thinks they could do better by serving dinner, they should go for it !
Personally, I tip .50 a drink (no matter the cost of the drink) and 15 to 20% for the food based on the service received. Taxes do not get tipped.