Gratuities

Yup, my daughter worked as a hostess when she was in college and explained how the servers/bartenders were usually the one's putting the order together. That place did the tip sharing/pooling thing, where credit card tips were evenly distributed among the serving staff each payday. That throws a whole other tangent in the tipping idea. The girl up the road that rides to school with my son, works at another place where the servers put together the food and bring it to checkout, but they don't tip share, so dropping a few bucks in the jar doesn't necessarily mean it goes to the right person. I try to make sure I give a couple of bucks to the person that I see bringing the food up in most cases.

 

God damn spelling checks on the beeb. They will be the death of me. Did I spell anything wrong? Scared to hit post

 

I think he meant he had already achieved crotchety. Bitter...not so much.

 

I rest my case judge wapner, time for a rum and coke!

 

I was a regular at a Mexican restaurant when I lived in TN. They had a takeout counter, but it was handled by the waitstaff, not a salaried worker, so I tipped.

 

Yeah, I can see both sides of it. Daughter said management always encouraged everyone to be friendly and timely with customers so that everyone's tips would be higher, therefore the split would be more. But almost always end up with a few that just do enough to get by, yet still get an equal share. Had never heard of tip sharing until she explained it to me, as well as talked about the good tip weeks vs. the bad tip weeks and how it impacted her check. Since then, I try to always leave a cash tip, so the person deserving it can more likely keep it in her/his pocket instead of the "pool".

 

The idea of having to tip when you pick up your own food offends me on general principle. I might understand it if there was an option to go to the kitchen to get your own food. Maybe.

 

This was the disconnect for me and my point.

 

Depends on the place... Restaurants I've worked in the person in charge of take out got paid a regular hourly rate while the servers and bartenders made $2.33

 

Price on the take out menu should be "as delivered to your hands." It's never crossed my mind that tipping should apply to grocery stores either. And yet someone has to put the groceries on the shelves so I can buy them.

 

I have noted that in the US, there tends to be fairly strict rules about bartenders and waitstaff not drinking on the job. Not so in Germany. Quite a few bartenders work in bars because they are alcoholics, and can drink OTJ.

In the town I lived in previously, the bartender would get mad if I didn’t do shots with him when I stopped in for a beer before picking my daughter up from school. . He would just drink them himself and mutter about stupid foreigners.

 

Obviously your experience has its limits.