Tipping?
 

How much do you normally tip when dining out? How much do you tip to service people ...such as furniture delivery or workman that do something at your home.

Seems many Villagers get alligator arms when it comes to tipping. Perhaps its cheapness...perhaps its regional standards.

Have you heard the one about the difference between a villager and a canoe?

Canoes tip!

Perhaps it is just your assumption.

I will tip 20% if the service and food is good. I tip the lady who cuts my hair $3.00 for a $9.00 hair cut. For the past couple of years we have given the yard guy $100.00 at Christmas time. $20.00 to the paper person and mail person. I would not tip a plumber or electrician or other service folks.

Paper Person
 

Tipping the person who delivers your paper 365 days a year anything less than $2.00 a week is wrong. Tip at least $100!

We tip 25% in the restaurants to make up for the 10%ers

So i guess you think everyone here tips fairly for good service? Sorry but thats not what im seeing.

As the OP, why don’t you tell us your standards?

I don't watch other people's tipping habits.

If you need to know to simply reply to my OP...

20-30 percent for good service in restaurants.

Minimum $20 to delivery people for large items.

Minimum $100 to UPS,mail,sanitation etc for the holidays.

At least $20 to workman that do work in my house as long as they are not the owners.

As I said..tipping is a regional custom. ive noticed folks from flyover states tip less...sometimes to the point of embarrassment.

Never dined out with good time charlies or skinflints?

Tipping
 

We have been out once and never again with people who tip 10% to the penny. They are not from the coasts or Chicago.

Correct.

We used to tip 15%, but our son was a waiter for a time and they are paid very little (less than $3/hour). They have to make it up in tips. So now we generally tip 20%.
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Bob C

Yes!
 

Totally agree!

Good service, 25 to 30%. 3 years ago, I gave a waitress $100. She still takes good care of me after all that time. She is the best waitress I've ever had, and she said villagers are lousy tippers.:bowdown:

$100 for UPS?
I don't think I've ever had the same driver down here.
Especially around the holidays, when the temporary's are working.
Regarding regions...I've noticed folks from the right and left coast, tip the least, and drive the worst...:beer3:

Tipping
 

The coast people tip. The fly overs are cheap. The newspaper people deserve $100.

I had a paper route. I was lucky when people paid for the newspaper. When someone gives me a Christmas card with a return envelope attached, $20.00 is plenty. If the delivery person has 300 homes and all give $20, a $6000 bonus is pretty nice.

I was asking about UPS.
Newspapers are a waste of trees.
Coasters are cheap.

UPS drivers are very well paid. They probably can make up to $70,000/80,000 per year with overtime. I don't think they are allowed to take tips. Save your money for the ones who really need and deserve the extra income.

How did you get that job? Telling people what is de rigueur?

Fly over states. Hmmm.

Like Villager Joyce pointed out, there are a lot of nice things going on that no one brings to anyone's attention.

There are a couple of words for that kind of behavior; Class and Class.

From the silent majority.

:agree:

East, West, North, South, Coasts or Plains it’s pretty obvious that there are “good tippers and “poor tippers” from all regions and all different walks of life.

If in a restaurant and I receive good service from the waitress/waiter, in addition to a 20% tip, I will leave a short note thanking them. I know you can’t spend a note, but positive reinforcement for a job well done is appreciated.

And let the mgr know on the way out what a good job the employee did.

As a solo diner I don't work on a percentage of meal charge. I give servers $5 for lunch and $10 at dinner, whatever the bill. In company I go with the consensus.
I never go back to restaurants that add a service charge to the bill. Who are they to presume I was satisfied with meal and service. JMO

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Wow..."I am bowled over by your generosity and will adjust my future tipping habits based on your chastisement of the rest of us for not keeping up to your high standards of living".....said no one so far! What a condescending post...

Well stated. IMHO several of us hinted with just enough to keep our thoughts in the acceptable category and available for others to see.

Im not telling anyone how to spend their money. Simply pointing out the less than generous nature of the "thrifty" people in TV. I choose to be fairly generous with regard to low paid people who provide me with good service.

For decades, the standard in restaurants has always been 15% for good service. Somehow over the last 10-15 years, it has become 18%-20%. How and why did that happen. I generally tip 15%. If the service was especially excellent I go 20% and if there was a problem 10%.

We went out for Indian food yesterday. While researching Indian restaurants, I came across one that automatically adds 15% service fee to your bill. I will not go there because of that.

:clap2::clap2::thumbup::BigApplause::agree:

In the case of the Daily Sun, the cost of the paper is about $2.00 per week and we're supposed to tip the delivery person the same $2.00? I don't get the paper so I really don't know.

I'm sure these people that deliver get paid at least minimum wage. Why should we tip them and not the workers in Wal-Mart for example?

20 - 25% at restaurants, the higher number for exceptional service. If the service is poor so is the tip. Since we have been known to have a cocktail or two and/or wine the tip adds up. The newspaper person gets a card with a fifty dollar bill and the mail person the same. After thinking about it, Maybe we should go to a $ 100. Delivery and service people get tipped if they do something beyond the job they were hired to do.

Newspaper Tip
 

I give a $100 because never ever have we not had our paper delivered. Always double bagged so it is dry. It is in our driveway by 6 AM (we have dogs)

Pray tell! How far did you have to go to find and Indian restaurant? Was it good?

A good place to watch how people tip is to watch while standing in line at one of the drink kiosks at the Squares. It will make you shake your head.


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If I understand correctly, the newspaper costs about $65 a year and you tip $100. Wowzy.

Tipping
 

I am tipping for the service not a % of price. If I gave 20% it is only $13 which would be no where near the value of the service.