is tipping now mandatory?

I wll tip if the person did great customer service and that they made sure that the food was to my liking.. I would give them an extra $10.00 tip for a job well done. I love to give tips, I like to help an employee gain the likes of their customers and managers. It makes them feel good to get a tip. They know that they are doing something right..

I have never not left a tip. However just like yourself my husband and I believe that tips are extras and if you want a tip you need to treat me like a person. If we're in a restaurant and our waiter / waitress is generally uninterested in us, then we just leave the minimum. But if they're particularly nice and attentive then we give them extra. They added to our dining experience by making it enjoyable for us so we're making it enjoyable for them by giving them extra.

People take those kinds of job knowing that they will have to rely on the tips they will make, so if they do a bad job it's on them. That being said, every person defination of bad service differs and the reason for the bad service differs as well. If it is the kitchen is backed up, it's not the servers fault, though it'll probably reflect on their tip. On the same token, if the server treats you poorly, then you tip whatever you feel is best. I usually tip well for a job well done. As for poor service it would have to depend on how bad it actually was.

I normally leave a tip but I think that they have to earn it. I had a waitress the other day that did an outstanding job waiting on us so I gave her a good tip. She deserved it and I gave it to her. Now I still tip if they do a bad job but not as much.

For poor service I may give less money than I would for good service. If it's the cook that did wrong or made the service bad I don't hold that against the waittress or waiter. Some people are just having a bad day or a length of service that is bad, I can't hold that against them too much. Like when I see the place is full and the person waiting on us has tons to do and is the only person in the area I'm in having to do everything. I may get bad service from him/her but they are very busy. I leave something. Some people take what jobs that they can get and this is it. They still have families to care for.

I totally agree with you! The people who are paid poorly and rely on tips for the majority of their income know that when they start the job. I don't think its my responsibilty to tip because people choose to work jobs for low pay. I know most waitresses who get low hourly wage make a lot with tips. A lot of them make more then my husband does each day at his job. I worked at a hospital for two years and I never got tips nor did I expect any. I knew what I was getting paid when I started there and didnt expect other people to give me tips when I worked really hard. Most the time the waitresses don't have to work that hard! I think the gratuity that they mandate at certain places in your bill is ridiculous. I don't think its fair either. Some places do have a sign about it so you know ahead of time that its already going to be put on your bill. I don't tip unless someone does an EXCELLENT job as a waitress or hostess whatever. If someone doesnt do a good job there is no way that I would want to leave them a mandatory tip or even an optional tip. We went to pizza hut the other day and got a stuffed crust pizza, 1 soda, and a large order of breadsticks. It cost us around $30. I think that was a lot but we left the girl a tip. I only leave $1 for waitresses if they do a good job. The cost to eat at places is to expensive for us to afford to leave a large tip.

I think a person tips is the chose to, I will tip, but If I get lousy service I will not tip at all! Have a good day!

The full form of TIP is "To insure Promptness." If you want prompt service, you have to give a tip. There is no hard and fast rule about tipping, but it is normally 10% of teh bill amount. If you get bad service there is no need to tip. You don't tip for bad service as you do not want it repeated. Tipping more than 10% too is bad. By doing that you are making a good worker lethargic.

I almost always tip. The only times i dont tip is if the service was so lousy or in one case i was paying with cash and barely had enough to just pay for my order. Not enough for tip.

I am not particularly happy about tiping. Tipping is not very common in my home country, they usually charge us 10 or 20% service charges then you can leave the coins and that's it, wewon't especially throw another couple dollars to the bill, sometimes if the waitor/waitre4ss really do a good job, we might tip some some it is not mandatory. Yes, it really seems like tipping is a must in this country now even they do a poor job, I don't understand it.

Hi ,,, [i]Rightly said, even i do not tip at times if the service is lousy or the waiter is uninterested. There was a time ,when i had to get my change , but the waiter did not turn up , guess he kept it with himself thinking it was his tip. Gone are the days when genuine services were given at reasonable prices,but these days services comes at a heavy price .[/i] Cheers

Tipping custom varies from country to country. When I was in italy most restaurants included a 1euro cover charge, even to eat a 1 euro ice cream at a table. -__-. I DO work as a waitress.. but I do not get all the tips. I do this work because I need it to supply my studies and I have learnt to love it. The thanks and the feedback I get are better than any tips, which at the end of the day I use for bus rides. I do have a policy however - if a waiter goes really out of his way to be nice, I leave a nice tip. If I find out the owners take a share in the tips, I don't even leave one cent.

i dont think that its mandatory but i used to be a waitress and i only made 2.15 and hour and the only way you really make money is from tips and its not like you have to tip alot 2 or 3 dollars is good cause it adds up..but if your not getting good service from the waitress or waitor then i dont think they should get a tip..you go out to get served and have good sevice.

if you watch the intro to the movie Reservoir Dogs, they have a great argument for tipping. Anyways, if you have ever been a waiter or waitress, then you might understand the hard work that goes into waiting and how tipping is part of how to make a living. However, the argument is that people from fast food restaurants work just as hard and sometimes even brings your food out but they never get tipped. It is true though that if service was really bad, sometimes I don't leave any tips. But most of the time, I try to be gratuitous.

Waiters and waitresses are notoriously underpaid and overworked. We usually try to leave them a tip of some sort, just because we know they aren't being paid much otherwise. We just leave more if they did a super job. I've never worked in a job where I got a tip in my life, but I think tips have become more an expected extra with any service worker.

Hi dvschic, well, I do tip...even a lame waitress because I know how much she depends on those tips to get by. I worked briefly as a waitress....I did try but to be honest....I sucked at it. I do feel as you do...it should be a gratuity for a job well done. My biggest beef is with the employers that for some reason are allowed to pay their help such low salary that we as patrons feel we have to pay it for him! We are already paying a pretty hefty price for what he is selling so why should we have to pay his help as well? I have seen very good waitresses go to their jobs and if customers don't have the money to tip...oh well..she has worked her butt off for 2.25 per hour! No one should have to do that. When I gave it a try...I once spent 8 hours in the restraunt. It was very slow so I did cleaning and mopping and I worked quite hard and because we only had a couple of patrons....I was paid next to nothing for that night. I think that any of us that do customer service work should have tip jars but our wages should not depend upon it. I would imagine if everyone stopped tipping, the waitresses would all be forced to look for other income and maybe then the owners would pay their people what they are worth in order to keep them.

I do give tip only when I get satisfied with the service otherwise sorry as they don't give tip if the service is poor. There is no problem to give tip but these people should learn how to serve well if they expect to be tipped. I don't think tipping is mandatory. It is the prerogative of anyone to tip or not to. I don't think we should ever feel obligated because in the first place that is their job and they are supposed to do their job as they are being paid for it and the tip is just a bonus if they really served well.

I always leave some sort of tip. However, if they've done a bad job, they'll know it. I usually only leave part of a tip because several of us are always eating together, and we will all try to chip in. I know that there was a time where I was so dissatisfied with the waitress (the place was not busy and she would rather talk to her co-workers and laugh and play than check up on us here and there like she could have been doing) that I left a quarter on the table and told everyone not to leave anything else. I think a quarter says more than leaving nothing at all, anyway.

If the services are really poor then sometimes I do not tip but otherwise I tip the people. I do not like to tip people but sometimes have to do the same due to compulsion. I think it should not be the case as they are paid for this thing only and then why should we pay out of compulsion.

Well. Now, to tell you the truth its all a game of heart and your emotion. If you feel pity over what you see(i am referring to their conditions), Then probably you'd feel like tipping them. So it all depends on your emotional controls and what you want to do at that moment. I would also think twice before tipping for poor service