[kstew43]

I'd like to know as well......I'll save your chair whilst you dance for a tip, dance with your spouse...for a tip.....just let me know...LOL

[kstew43]

Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

In The Villages, your drinks are around $2.50 and meals around $15. This is CHEAP if you come from any metro area. The server still makes a very small wage and depends on your tip.

Average income of Villagers is around $95,000 in retirement benefits and investments.

Give 20 percent! The servers do not control the quality of the food. If you don't like the quality, go somewhere else, but tip the servers!

$95,000 is the average......dang....

that means 60,000 Villages make over $95k.....that leaves me out....

[Kathrynsews]

Tip if you wish, or don't. I think we are all so lucky to have all this free entertainment, I don't begrudge anyone with a tip jar, and am happy to contribute. As far as waitstaff, they are paid peanuts and depend on tips for their livelihood. Consider it part of the price of dining out.

[justjim]

Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

In The Villages, your drinks are around $2.50 and meals around $15. This is CHEAP if you come from any metro area. The server still makes a very small wage and depends on your tip.

Average income of Villagers is around $95,000 in retirement benefits and investments.

Give 20 percent! The servers do not control the quality of the food. If you don't like the quality, go somewhere else, but tip the servers!

Why do people want to take it out on the Server when the food is bad? Low wages, few benefits and complaints----20% gratuity is the least we can do when we go out for dinner and get reasonable service.

[TheDude]

This started with a tip bucket and snowballed.

No one is forcing anyone to tip, and if you are able to not have feelings, then don't tip. Some older people (I know I said that in TV website) grew up tipping 10%. I usually tip 30% on the food (I don't tip on the taxes). If bottles of wine are bought then it is a game day decision but I am not tipping 30 dollars on a 100 bottle of wine. I don't even know what is right in that case.

As to the basket, tip the guy then ask why in a kind way he feels the need, he may have an interesting story to tell.

[fred53]

[QUOTE=Chi-Town;1331153]Saw Beautiful Bobby Blackmon and the B3 Band at LSL and requested Hey Joe, which is not a dance tune but a listening one. He played about a seven minute version. He had a tip jar which I contributed to happily.

you feeling good(that's just selfish), but about making someone else feel good.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Kathrynsews

Tip if you wish, or don't.

I think we are all so lucky to have all this free entertainment, I don't begrudge anyone with a tip jar, and am happy to contribute. As far as waitstaff, they are paid peanuts and depend on tips for their livelihood. Consider it part of the price of dining out.

Exactly!

No one is being forced to tip (for anything) and if you're offended by just the mere presence of a tip jar/can...then I think other serious issues are at play IMHO.

[outlaw]

I always add at least a 10% tip to my federal income taxes each year as a little "thank you" to the federal government. I feel it is patriotic.

[kstew43]

Originally Posted by outlaw

I always add at least a 10% tip to my federal income taxes each year as a little "thank you" to the federal government. I feel it is patriotic.

Your kidding...right?

if your not.....just so you know....As a ex federal employee.....we are not allowed to accept tips of any kind......

[daveczo]

Excellent response Gerald, I agree.

[Paperboy]

What pumpkin wagon did U fall off of to get this $95K figure? This isn't Frisco or New York city! There must be quite a few billionaires living here to make this average so high. Maybe the CFO of Wells Fargo bank with his $125 MILLION golden parachute helped INFLATE this OUTLANDISH sum of $.

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

Saw Beautiful Bobby Blackmon and the B3 Band at LSL and requested Hey Joe, which is not a dance tune but a listening one. He played about a seven minute version. He had a tip jar which I contributed to happily.

Here's Hey Joe at Brownwood:


Bobby Blackmon and the B3 Band performs HEY JOE at THE VILLAGES FL - YouTube

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I like that tune - he did a nice job on it too.

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[Boomer]

Good music makes me smile. I look for the tip jar.

[Chi-Town]

[QUOTE=fred53;1332711]

Originally Posted by Chi-Town

Saw Beautiful Bobby Blackmon and the B3 Band at LSL and requested Hey Joe, which is not a dance tune but a listening one. He played about a seven minute version. He had a tip jar which I contributed to happily.

you feeling good(that's just selfish), but about making someone else feel good.

Huh?

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[RickeyD]

Asking for a tip is begging. The last time a begger asked me for money I took him into a diner on Delancy St. , gave the owner 20 bucks and told him to give this guy whatever he wanted until the 20 bucks was spent. That was 40 years ago. I felt he needed the food more then the money. As a rule, I don't tip.