Originally Posted by
PSUhorty
@analise
You are making no freaking sense. Bail out now and save us the tedious replies.
Queenofcoach has clearly (and accurately) outlined the tipping/tip-out system in the US. If you can’t get it or understand how tip outs ALSO benefit your server and eventually YOU (and other customers), then, well.. I dunno.
No, she hasn't. I've asked the same question numerous times that has remained unanswered by her. I'll be asking it again below. If the replies are tedious, why are you reading them? Clearly, you must WANT to read them.
Originally Posted by planemechanic
No, full service means I am paying the hotel more money for more service. How they handle their employees is up to them.
Fair enough.
Originally Posted by cepheid
I apologize for not being psychic and knowing that you always make reservations.
No, I didn't say that. I said we don't do waiting lists. If places are busy in which we haven't made a reservation, whether they take them or not, we go someplace else. As for apologizing for being psychic, not sure to what that's in reference. Perhaps you shouldn't
make assumptions about people's dining habits. ^
That said... why not tip the host who takes your reservation information? After all, he/she is doing what you request.
That's not a service to me personally; that's a service to the owner of the business. If the person who answers the phone doesn't want to take reservations without getting a tip, the restaurant management will find that they are losing customers at warp speed.
Originally Posted by QueenofCoach
It is the server's money to do with what they want.
Is it the server's choice to do so? It seems most of what QoC is saying is that tips belong to everyone who makes the evening at a restaurant a success. But then she says the tip is "the server's money to do with what they want." Which is it? Simple question.
The manicurist keeps her entire tip even though there are others who clean and maintain the salon. My hairdresser keeps her ENTIRE tip (and that tip is huge LOL) as well as the shampoo girl keeps her ENTIRE tip even though there is a staff who cleans and maintains both of these salons.