Originally Posted by
homa2001
So bringing a $10 pasta disk takes less effort than a $30 steak at the same restaurant? What? Percentage based tipping makes absolutely zero sense.
For the love of God, please, don't tip in taxis for a rudimentary uneventful ride. You are paying a fare that includes livery from origin to destination without incidents. What are you tipping for?
I understand if you had a pleasant conversation with the driver as that is not mandated by the terms of service. Or the driver gave you the history of the city and places to visit while taking you from the airport to your hotel. But for daily rides? I select zero for tip in taxis in most cases. And that includes Uber/Lyft tipping nonsense.
Huh? What are you even replying to? Also, how is capitalism helping here? It's not like you bring your own server with you or select one from the pool? It's not an open market once you sat down.
I already addressed that. You wouldn't leave 20% if your food sucked just because it was brought to you expeditiously. So why does this work in reverse?
If you do get lousy service you have two options. If you like the place, you can speak to the server and/or the manager and explain how the service can be improved next time you come back. If you don't care, you just don't go back to that place which is in and of itself an incentive for the establishment provide a good experience, not just good food OR a good service.
You don't tip at the post office or in fact your mail man or woman, you don't tip at the grocery store, you don't even tip the person who sweeps your street or fixes stuff around your rented apartment. You pay agreed upon rate and move on. Why are servers, bartenders, cabbies, hairdressers, masseuses (the list goes on) different?
A $10 plate of pasta usually takes less work than a $30 steak, and your tip doesn't go just to the server. They usually have to tip out bus people, bartenders, and in some restaurants, now, kitchen staff. Cooking a steak takes more effort than a plate of pasta or a pizza, because people are usually very particular with their steaks.
As far as tipping mail people, garbage people, etc., I leave a present for my mail person at Christmas, and usually leave something for the garbage people as well. It's called being generous and appreciative.
Originally Posted by
knownothing
actiually i think a lot of us do "tip" the mailman / garbage men / handy men by a Christmas gift
This.