Originally Posted by Laker (Post 2437230)

At McDonalds you go to the counter and pick up your food, it is not delivered to a table by someone who is catering to you, and cleaning up your mess.

People who don't tip look for any excuse not to, bottom line is they are just cheapskates.

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2437246)

A lot of posters are saying that they do tip generously. But I find it difficult to believe that many people are actually happy with the current tipping tradition. If restaurants eliminated tipping altogether, I think most people would applaud that decision. But this will never happen because the restaurants are the ones who benefit most from tipping, not the customers or the servers.

Originally Posted by Regorp (Post 2437253)

Wait staff rely on tips as income and soon they will be tax free. Be generous to these hard working and underpaid service workers.

Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2437258)

I am not happy with the tradition and I would like to see it go away but I don't expect that to happen. No one would be happy with it, not the customers, not the owners, and certainly not the servers.

Just thinking about the customers, many will balk at the higher prices even if they are just 20% higher. A $16 burger and a $8 beer seems about right but at just 20% more, a $19 burger and $10 beer seems expensive. The total amount paid, $31 (the former with tipping and the latter without), will be the same but many customers won't recognize that.

The customers will see the higher prices and will spend more time at Publix, the owners will see a drop in business (at least initially, people will get bored with Pub subs), and the servers, at least the better ones, will see a drop in compensation.

Getting away from tipping is the way to go, I just don't see it happening any time soon.

Originally Posted by FastAndCurious (Post 2437212)

I have also noticed that at many restaurants, the suggested tip is based on the total bill, INCLUDING TAX!
Why would you tip 20 percent on the tax?

Originally Posted by asianthree (Post 2437375)

Next table of 4 golfers ordered the wing special $6 each plus drink $2.99 for soda. Total with tax $10.69. Each left $11 cash. It’s just sad.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2437163)

And you know as well as I do, and as well as everyone else does, that the pandemic and shut-downs was an unusual circumstance. Most people were out of work entirely, and those who were working in tipped service positions were taking huge risks, and dealing with insane employee shortages because many quit or were too sick to work (or died).

During normal times (which we have now, thankfully), overtipping can be (not always, but can be) harmful to the employee's bottom line, and healthy for the employer's bottom line. This is completely reverse to the intention of tipping.

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2437178)

Do you leave the same tip at McDonald's or Wendy's where the employees make the same amount?

Originally Posted by Nordhagen (Post 2437183)

T- to
I-insure
P-prompt
S-service

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2437231)

Question - If the minimum wage in Florida is $13 per hour, why should servers at a sit down restaurant get a 20 percent tip, when fast food restaurant servers usually get no tip?

Originally Posted by MrLindy (Post 2437245)

Maybe so. However, prices at comparable restaurants OFF THE VILLAGES seem to be considerably less than Villages, especially FMK restaurants! We should vote with our $$$ and become patrons of businesses that don't seem to be trying to take advantage of us!

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 2437246)

A lot of posters are saying that they do tip generously. But I find it difficult to believe that many people are actually happy with the current tipping tradition. If restaurants eliminated tipping altogether, I think most people would applaud that decision. But this will never happen because the restaurants are the ones who benefit most from tipping, not the customers or the servers.