I would like to send some love and praise to all the good tippers out there! Thank you for understanding that in Canadian culture, it is custom to express your satisfaction with the meal, service and overall experience by leaving a little extra money to the staff at the restaurant. This money not only goes to your server, but also the person who washes your dirty dishes, the people who prepared your meal, the person who showed you to your seat, and in many cases to the person who prepared any drinks you may have enjoyed. Thank you for understanding that these days a tip of 15% is considered a good tip and that anything less than 10% is interpreted as if you did not enjoy your time at the restaurant. Also, I appreciate that you recognize that waitresses and waiters are working this job to make tips. If we wanted to work for minimum wage, we probably would have taken a job that is less physically and mentally strenuous and high-stress like serving is. So thank you so much to those who show their appreciation after a good meal by giving a good tip. It’s the right thing to do. If it was a bad time, that’s fine, don’t leave a good tip—just don’t be a cheapskate to a server who deserves better! And to all of you bad tippers out there, remember that chicks don’t dig guys who don’t tip and visa versa. What goes around comes around and all that junk. So, let this be a tip on good tipping for you! Thank you! —A Tired Waitress
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
Hay, I have a family member who just bought a condo in toronto and works as a server. And in Ontario, you don’t even make min wage if you’re a server.
So tips really can help with boosting your income.
That or she’s living above her means …
“remember that chicks don’t dig guys who don’t tip…”
yep, better have cash or we don’t dig you…
you probably should have just left that part out…
cause that’s where you lost me.
There’s one restaurant chain that I’ve been to where you can’t NOT tip on the debit. Usually when I go out for lunch with my mom we take turns paying/tipping — if I pay, she tips, if she pays I tip. Last time she tipped and she had cash and left it on the table. When I went to pay with my debit card I had to leave a tip through their machine. So I ended up paying for the tip and the meal. So I took the money from the table.
It was just a big giant piss off.
Anyway, donk: her fiance is in the restaurant industry too and works at a very high profile place. They make quite the comfortable living and paid their deposit in cash. They really aren’t living beyond their means. They don’t even own a credit card! 🙂
Please do take-out if you can’t afford to tip at least 15%.
Please work take-out if you believe that you are somehow entitled to a 15% minimum for whatever service you provide.
dear zZz,
you’re a dummy. her point wasn’t that chicks dig guys with money, it was that chicks dig guys who understand and abide by proper etiquette. your response says to me that you have a bad attitude, and are probably a crappy tipper.
it wasn’t her ‘main’ point.. but it was said all the same.
your response says to me you infer too much and over analyze and are thus annoying to be around. See, it works both ways.
i may have a bad attitude but appreciate I work ethic and tip accordingly.
Sadly, as we’ve found, today’s youth have shit all for work ethic and thus aren’t usually worth tipping.
I’m with Mr. Pink on this one. someone post the youtube of the scene in reservoir dogs where Steve Bushemi is talking about tipping, it’s the first scene of the movie I think.
The only people who I have a problem getting tips is Tim’s. Why should they get tips for pouring coffee? The guy flipping burgers letting his skin turn into a pizza from working in a hot greasy kitchen all night doesn’t get tips. I worked at subway making people’s subs all day and there’s a tip jar and maybe one out of 15 or 20 ppls actually left a decent tip. I’d get like maybe 20 bucks every 2 weeks if I was lucky. Tim’s workers make that in a day. I call bullshit, good thing I don’t drink coffee.
These servers downtown make a killing in tips. They can under or over report that income and CRA won’t know the difference. I appreciate that one of them is thanking us. It’s definitely a tough job that I wouldn’t want to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38