<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by letiole:
Help me out here ... why would they expect a tip if they don't get to keep it? And who does it go to? I'm having a hard time grasping that a valet given a tip would hand it over to someone else. Seems all the more reason to never tip a valet.</font>
They expect it, because most people tip them. And you are right in the logic that if they don't get to keep the tip you shouldnt tip them. If i go to a restaurant that uses the same company we use, I don't leave a tip.
If it is just a single valet parking the cars, then I do tip, because I know that they will keep it.
There are different services, sometimes it is a single valet, not working for a company, but just doing it themselves. Or it is a single valet, who rents the spot from a company. In both these cases they keep the tip.
The reason I keep it to a dollar, is that, although I am more informed than most customers, I still have no way of knowing where it is going.
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