[quote name='Filler2001']Now this is the funniest thing Ive heard today. Tipping is completely optional, and when you say "It's a part of dining out", you forget to mention it's an optional part. Secondly, that is a terrible metaphor. 25+tax is not OPTIONAL, and tipping is OPTIONAL. I (and everyone else) should eat out because they want a good meal, NOT because they want to support people who work there (although do that if you want). If they really have so much difficulty, they are welcome to hunt for another job as they were capable enough to find the first one. Now I already tip whenever I can, but I feel that it is stupid to feel pressured to eat out at all when you cant provide a tip. If tipping is so necessary, it would have been added to the bill. Nice blogs though[/QUOTE]
Not tipping because you don't feel like it is stealing IMO. The reason tipping is setup the way it is, is so the employees go out of their way to help you out. It's like hotel chains that only franchise. They want to make sure that their brand is managed well, so they franchise it out, so that the quality is mostly put on the person who runs the business.
I never worked a service job a day in my life, pure retail until I finished college, but I would never eat out if I couldn't afford to tip. They don't automatically include it, because then they'd have to worry more about slackoff employees.
If a waitstaff is totally lazy, never refills drinks, doesn't check up on the order, takes forever to get to you and doesn't apologize, then yea you shouldn't tip. The point of tipping is to prevent people like this from working, as they are responsible for maintaining their own work ethic.
I didn't really want to respond as I hope your just
'in with people in the thread, but if you're serious you shouldn't be eating at a restaurant unless you go in with the mindset of tipping 15-20% pending establishment and only after bad service do you leave less.
Now the grey area I get to are the restaurants like Outback that have curbside takeaway. I hate doing that cause I feel like I should be tipping, but the whole reason I get curbside is so I don't have to tip. I usually walk in, but then they all want to bring the meal out to your after you pay unless its ready. Just let me walk in and pay for my meal like I'm at subway so I don't feel the need to tip. I always wonder if those people are relying on tips or are on tipshare.
On another note I hate
'n places like starbucks that have tip jars. Unless you are considered waitstaff just do your job. I took it in the rear and bent over backwards all the time at best buy, way more than some schmuck makin me a venti frufru drink, and we did not have a tip jar.