Are you guys tipping at bakeries and patisseries?
I sometimes tip 10 percent, and sometimes round up to an even number, and sometimes nothing at all.
Just seems funny for a patisserie to ask for a 15 percent tip on an individual mousse cake boxed to go that costs $10.95 Canadian before our 13 % Ontario sales tax. Today, I rounded up from the after tax price of $12 and change to $13.
pass. another click-bait story trying to pass itself off as news. i don’t hold the NYP in high regard, but this is a low bar even for them. the whole thing is tasteless. getting shitty tips on occasion is part of the job. i’d have at least a shred of respect for this person if they had the integrity to complain of the contrary situation: let’s see a report of her returning $$ back to a customer who grossly OVER tips. you can’ have it both ways, if you accept the over tipping you can’t then turn around and feign outrage at under tipping. it evens out in the end. she should muster some of that selective outrage in trying to help reform a broken, nonsensical tipping paradigm in her industry.
My husband and I both worked in the service industry way back when. That’s how we met. We tipped 20% 40 years ago. Not much has changed since then except a few % points. Breakfast or lunch out usually runs about $20. But we always leave $5. Even when breakfast or lunch was only $15 we still left $5. Nothing will change the way I tip at this point. I don’t tip for takeout or any place with tip jars except one…Walking into a clean, freshly scented ladies room is a wondrous thing… Always good for a few bucks to the attendant.
Click bait? Click bait is scrolling down past the article to a toe nail fungus miracle cure. I happen to like the NYP but also agree with your thoughts on the server. As did most of the NYP peanut gallery. She thought it would go one way and it went the other way. Not the first time someone thinks that and it won’t be the last time.
Honestly. I don’t think it is easy to understand. I usually give a 10-15% tip from a nice pastry place but I don’t give tip when i get my McApple from McDonald. Why?
I have never tipped McDonald’s. I dont know the server has ever had a tip or the policy to take a tip .
I start at 30 % when walking into a restaurant. It moves in either direction depending upon service .
I have told the server. The food sucks . Your service was good and left 30% or more its not their fault.
Im pretty much out to eat for the service not the food
Without a doubt “they” are wrong. Well informed travellers would know about things like a country’s tipping culture and act in accord with local norms.
Of course, it also works the other way - I bet many Americans fail to properly understand the culture in, say, the UK, so have no idea that the service charge is the tip, so add an extra 20% anyway. In that case, it is the traveller who loses out, so why would any British server give a shit.
I think that is the point. Not all travelers are well-informed. Forget even about foreigners. As I mentioned later, there are plenty Americans who are not the higher expected tip in large cities like NYC. Many has already claimed that the NYC expected tip is 25%. Yet, if you tell someone (an American) who are used to giving 15% to increase to 25%, then there is a good chance he will reluctant to do so. This is what I mean who is wrong at a national level. We have this tipping custom that we Americans cannot even agree among ourselves what is proper. Many agree 25% is normal. Others still believe 15% is normal. Some believe take-out should require no tip. Other believe take-out should have full tip %.
It’s not. It’s 20%.
See, exactly my point. 
We cannot even agree on this.
You don’t need to agree. It’s not a matter of opinion - a standard tip on a NYC check is 20%. People can tip however they want, but it’s like asking how much a “suggested donation” is. You’ll see a number, but the donation is still up to you.
I think that’s why so many restaurants (especially in tourist “destinations”) now list the 18%-20%-22% amounts at the bottom of a receipt. I think it’s not only for tourists, but for the many Americans who cannot do basic math. It’s not auto-added, but is “suggested.”
I have always been a 20%er–guess it’s just how my parents taught me. And besides, it’s easy math. Round up for easy accounting. But I know this is higher than my friends and colleagues from the South and Midwest.
Yes, but I have seen much higher than that… you mean the suggestive tip when the credit card rings up? Yes, 20% is easy math.
This should pretty much sum up how Americans think about tip.
In San Francisco the tipping prompts through the payment systems are almost always higher than that. Last night I ordered a pizza to pick up, not dine in or delivery, and the tipping prompts were 25%, 20%, 15% and “other” where you put your own amount in. I’ve seen the prompts start at 30%. It’s funny how they’ve adjusted the prompts to suggest the highest tips first.
I’d say it was well-calculated (pun intended).
I suppose Philly has always been the poor step child of the NYCs and SFs of the world.
If that is the case, I’ll walk back to the kitchen and fetch my own dinner (when its ready).
Just give out those “buzzer” things and the chef can buzz it when the meal is ready.
Yep. The funniest one I encountered, I think it was at Horn BBQ, they had if I recall, 25%, then 22% then 20% and 20% again - like they didn’t even want to entertain anything lower than 20% so they put it in twice.
Sure, and New Jersey is a no-one-want-to-claim child between New York and Philly.
Right, and then ask your other house members to give you tip too.
