Quote Originally Posted by amat View Post
Yeah I'm a waiter so obviously I sympathize and tip appropriately everywhere even for my coffee. That's also because I seem to try to seduce every girl that ever serves me coffee ever and that always starts with the tip. If I'm lucky enough I might get one back. As a waiter if I make 15% then I'm thrilled but usually it's closer to 12% or 13%. I'm not working at a high end institution, it's Applebees so it is a bit ghetto and you get the ghetto crowd who just don't tip no matter what. We have to claim whatever credit card tips we make plus 8% of whatever our cash sales were and that's deducted from the check. So if you pay cash and don't tip at least 8% then I'm actually LOSING money waiting on your table. Kinda shitty.
You see, that really sucks. Why is it on the customer to make sure you are getting enough to live? That should be the companies obligation and they should be making more than enough profits from their regular business anyway. Like I say, I'm out of the loop these days...but just find it very odd the way things are in the west. Well America and the UK actually. I heard in a lot of European countries tipping is not the norm. It certainly isn't in the parts of Asia I have been to.