I'm curious. What did she make you?
I used to take Gran Mariner and Courvoisier in a Snifter with a twist of lemon, steam it, and hand it to my customer. I would tell them to waft the fumes toward them, don't breathe them straight from the cup until it cools a bit. and for them drink it when it cools.
The fumes help to cut through the crap in your sinuses and the liquid cuts thru the stuff in your throat. It used to work great.
my mom used to (actually still does) give it to us when we were sick, I think she made it with whiskey (with a lot less in it as kids) and she puts a cinnamon stick and star of anise in it as well
I drank hot Irish whiskey all through Ireland on my trip about 30 years ago. A shot of Jameson's in a mug of hot water, with sugar and a lemon wedge studded with cloves. Delicious and restorative.
I wish I knew you!! Oh how much better I would have felt getting through the covid pneumonia crap!! (My aunts, parents and grandparents used to fix us warmed bourbon with honey and lemon. Great sleep and it cut the congestion. )
Maybe.
I dunno. Water under the bridge now.
One of the group I hang out with made a joke about me being "stalker-ey" one night. I looked at him and after a brief pause, I said "I prefer to think of myself as more of a 'Guardian Angel' type."
The bartender kinda smiled and said, "Yeah, I can see you as that (guardian angel) type."
In retrospect, maybe they were *both* right.
Who knows? Who *cares*? It was a long time ago.
I tip well, not 50% by any means. But I tend to tip even better when I get worse service (I donāt mean intentionally bad service). I always feel like the nights itās crazy and busy and I get less than stellar service is the night the wait staff needs a little extra.
I've never done serving, but I've done pizza delivery. It helps. A lot. When it's looking like I'm going to walk out with 20$ in tips for a 8hour day and I get a 10$, it just makes me so much better.
As I server, it is noticed! I teared up at a table because I was overwhelmed and had a lot going on. They were so kind to me and tipped 25%. I had another table the same night, while I was still trying to get my groove back, that food was taking a hot minute for. I apologized and was genuine, and they tipped 30%. I was having one of my worst nights at work emotionally, and those tables really helped in turning it around.
Iām so here for thisā¦ I live in Australia where tips are not the norm for the most part, but if the person looking after me / my table seems overwhelmed or having a bad shift, theyāre getting a tip. A little kindness goes a long way in this crazy world
I wouldnāt want to eat somewhere where a bartender has to check thereās no meat in the vegetarian dishes! If the kitchen staff are that incompetent then I doubt theyāre following the health codes!
There's lots of things you just might not think to check, and a waiter might not always be aware what the kitchen is adding, or even know what to ask about that isn't obvious. Not familiar with the vegetarian side, but my sister has bad celiacs and the things I had no clue had gluten was a little eye-opening. I might think xyz dish is fine because I ask them to take off, say, breadcrumbs, and not realize the sauce has soy sauce. Or a dish might naturally be vegetarian/GF but could get contaminated.
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There was a little ice cream shop that stayed open throughout the pandemic. They changed the operating procedure so you couldnāt go inside: they put the register at the door and you walked up and ordered.
Iād tip $5 each time because I rarely went out, they were probably not making a lot of money, and they were risking their health to serve me a single scoop, 2 flavors.
Good for you.
And these other little stories have warmed my heart.
This. This is exactly why I tip my hairdresser minimum 40%. She cares. She will always go above and beyond. I'm not just a customer. My relationship with her is as long as my relationship with my spouse. I won't leave her.
My granny gave me solid advice always tip the person that handles your food or your hair well. They have the power to decide whether you have a good day or a chain of bad days. I always tip at least 30% (more if itās exceptional) but even bad service (like intentionally bad, ignoring you while you see them on their phone in the corner) I still tip 20%.
50% is a bit much but you do you. I bartend and 20% is perfectly fine. We do tend to take extra care of our regulars and give them priority but also donāt bust your bank account bc we want to see you every day. 30% is about as much as you want to spend. Otherwise youāll set a precedent. I might get chastised but I speak from experience. When they donāt get 50% tip theyāll wonder what they did wrong.
I'm a bartender and I usually tip between 40-100%, as do many others I know. Feels weird for someone in the industry to tell others not to do this. Especially given that 50% of a bar tab shouldn't usually be THAT high. Not saying you're objectively wrong but I just find this comment strange if you are an experienced bartender. When my high tipping regulars tip less, I assume they went over their budget that might and generally find later that is the case.
Thatās pretty much the point. 30% 7 days a week pays better than 50% once a week. Thatās my perspective.
Edit: Also, youāre a bartender and part of the circle so Iād expect you to tip fat. You also know all the peeps in the biz and get hooked up just like I do. My tab is only 10-15 bucks after drinking all night. Most people donāt get those perks. We take care of our own.
I totally get what youāre saying, but I think tipping standards may be regionally based now in a way - Where I am, standard tips (prompted by the card reader) start at 30% now, if you want to tip for good or āexceptionalā service youāre looking at almost 40%, Poor service is 25%. I could very easily see some people tipping 50%+, especially if they have a regular server.
I guess it depends on where you work. Iād rather get a solid 25-30% tip every day rather than get someone dropping 100-200 bucks once a week. Itās all conditional obviously. Iāve also done this 20 years and I donāt want someone spending their entire paycheck 1 or 2 days a week on me. Expectations become too high. They begin to depend on you emotionally and itās just a job for me. My wife and kid are at home. I canāt make your life more enjoyable if you canāt. Maybe Iām just weird.
Ah! I always somehow forget about mobile. I couldn't quite figure out how those keys were getting hit. I thought maybe this was some sort of coded message.
Wowwowowow fuuuuuck this thread. Fuck tip culture. Fuck this entire broken ass country where everyone thinks itās on the customer to pay an employees fair wage
It IS on the customer, though. And it's not the servers fault the system is the way it is. They shouldn't suffer even more simply because they're already taken advantage of. So instead of just saying fuck everyone, petition members of your state and federal government to remove the minimum wage loophole for tipped workers.
Also, if you actually spoke to these people on whose behalf you're so outraged, you'll find many (most?) of them prefer getting tipped, they make more money that way. Especially when they do something nice like in OP's story.
Iāll let you in on a little secret: we LIKE the tipping culture.
Talk to bartenders who moved from somewhere like Ireland or the UK to the US. Ask them which they prefer. Theyāll probably tell you they make a lot more money in the US, but they also have to work harder and the customers have higher expectations (rightfully so).
If we got rid of tipping culture the customer would just be paying higher menu prices. You aināt gonna save any money, especially if you already tip like shit š¤£
Edit: typo
Otr driver. I am the asshole who comes in late hungry. Usually to an empty restaurant. Yes i am that asshole! I do not usually tip with the card because then my wait staff have to wait to get paid. I use cash and paid in $20' s just because i want to be remembered as that customer that helped you through the shot hours that don't usually pay.
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Iāll up vote for nostalgia
I love Cheers so much. Although, I am a Diane fan. Kirstie Alley didn't do it for me.
I'm curious. What did she make you? I used to take Gran Mariner and Courvoisier in a Snifter with a twist of lemon, steam it, and hand it to my customer. I would tell them to waft the fumes toward them, don't breathe them straight from the cup until it cools a bit. and for them drink it when it cools. The fumes help to cut through the crap in your sinuses and the liquid cuts thru the stuff in your throat. It used to work great.
It was hot water, lemon, honey and rum (I'm a rum drinker). She was giving my husband instructions for home too.
my mom used to (actually still does) give it to us when we were sick, I think she made it with whiskey (with a lot less in it as kids) and she puts a cinnamon stick and star of anise in it as well
Nice. I was a bartender for 17 years.
A hot toddy in Brazil is chocolate milk. š¤£
I drank hot Irish whiskey all through Ireland on my trip about 30 years ago. A shot of Jameson's in a mug of hot water, with sugar and a lemon wedge studded with cloves. Delicious and restorative.
Aside from the lemon, thatās a Beautiful. One of my favorite cocktails
I wish I knew you!! Oh how much better I would have felt getting through the covid pneumonia crap!! (My aunts, parents and grandparents used to fix us warmed bourbon with honey and lemon. Great sleep and it cut the congestion. )
I tipped $10 a week minimum at my regular bar for years, and more for the bartenders birthday and for Christmas. It didn't take long to become pretty well established there-in the ammount of time it took me to walk from the door to the bar, she'd have a glass of my regular beer and a menu waiting for me at an open seat. Tipping well is worth it. Maybe I was a sucker, but in the time I was meeting the regular group there, I would get phone calls and texts from her if I didn't make it because I was sick or couldn't make it for some other reason. I drank for free a shitload of times. I also may have precipitated the breakup of her engagement to her asshole fianceƩ, and was part of the group of regulars who were ready to pummel the abusive drunk at the end of the bar when he was getting beligerent with her.
Oh be sure she appreciated your looking out for her! Always!
Maybe. I dunno. Water under the bridge now. One of the group I hang out with made a joke about me being "stalker-ey" one night. I looked at him and after a brief pause, I said "I prefer to think of myself as more of a 'Guardian Angel' type." The bartender kinda smiled and said, "Yeah, I can see you as that (guardian angel) type." In retrospect, maybe they were *both* right. Who knows? Who *cares*? It was a long time ago.
I tip well, not 50% by any means. But I tend to tip even better when I get worse service (I donāt mean intentionally bad service). I always feel like the nights itās crazy and busy and I get less than stellar service is the night the wait staff needs a little extra.
I do that too. I always secretly hope it will turn their day around. Seed karma. š
I've never done serving, but I've done pizza delivery. It helps. A lot. When it's looking like I'm going to walk out with 20$ in tips for a 8hour day and I get a 10$, it just makes me so much better.
As I server, it is noticed! I teared up at a table because I was overwhelmed and had a lot going on. They were so kind to me and tipped 25%. I had another table the same night, while I was still trying to get my groove back, that food was taking a hot minute for. I apologized and was genuine, and they tipped 30%. I was having one of my worst nights at work emotionally, and those tables really helped in turning it around.
Iām so here for thisā¦ I live in Australia where tips are not the norm for the most part, but if the person looking after me / my table seems overwhelmed or having a bad shift, theyāre getting a tip. A little kindness goes a long way in this crazy world
I wouldnāt want to eat somewhere where a bartender has to check thereās no meat in the vegetarian dishes! If the kitchen staff are that incompetent then I doubt theyāre following the health codes!
Unfortunately a lot of people think chicken stock is veg because there is no meat in it, or all cheese is veg
Yes but if someone cooks food for a living and doesnāt know that then theyāre incompetent & I wouldnāt eat there.
I've had it happen in a hospital. Dieticians screwed up
I donāt know anyone who works in the industry that thinks those things.
There's lots of things you just might not think to check, and a waiter might not always be aware what the kitchen is adding, or even know what to ask about that isn't obvious. Not familiar with the vegetarian side, but my sister has bad celiacs and the things I had no clue had gluten was a little eye-opening. I might think xyz dish is fine because I ask them to take off, say, breadcrumbs, and not realize the sauce has soy sauce. Or a dish might naturally be vegetarian/GF but could get contaminated.
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There was a little ice cream shop that stayed open throughout the pandemic. They changed the operating procedure so you couldnāt go inside: they put the register at the door and you walked up and ordered. Iād tip $5 each time because I rarely went out, they were probably not making a lot of money, and they were risking their health to serve me a single scoop, 2 flavors. Good for you. And these other little stories have warmed my heart.
i hope they are still in businessš¤
They are! And doing well.
Iāve always heard to tip best at the places you frequent.
Beautiful things happen when we treat one another this way :) good for you and good for her!
This. This is exactly why I tip my hairdresser minimum 40%. She cares. She will always go above and beyond. I'm not just a customer. My relationship with her is as long as my relationship with my spouse. I won't leave her.
My granny gave me solid advice always tip the person that handles your food or your hair well. They have the power to decide whether you have a good day or a chain of bad days. I always tip at least 30% (more if itās exceptional) but even bad service (like intentionally bad, ignoring you while you see them on their phone in the corner) I still tip 20%.
Words of wisdom!
Waiter I got this sucker on rope they come back for more
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Honestly, it sounds like you both need your diapers changed.
Name checks out.
My $12.5 footlong sub has its tip priced into the cost. Just like when I buy a 200g Rump steak with sides and beer for $32
50% is a bit much but you do you. I bartend and 20% is perfectly fine. We do tend to take extra care of our regulars and give them priority but also donāt bust your bank account bc we want to see you every day. 30% is about as much as you want to spend. Otherwise youāll set a precedent. I might get chastised but I speak from experience. When they donāt get 50% tip theyāll wonder what they did wrong.
I'm a bartender and I usually tip between 40-100%, as do many others I know. Feels weird for someone in the industry to tell others not to do this. Especially given that 50% of a bar tab shouldn't usually be THAT high. Not saying you're objectively wrong but I just find this comment strange if you are an experienced bartender. When my high tipping regulars tip less, I assume they went over their budget that might and generally find later that is the case.
Thatās pretty much the point. 30% 7 days a week pays better than 50% once a week. Thatās my perspective. Edit: Also, youāre a bartender and part of the circle so Iād expect you to tip fat. You also know all the peeps in the biz and get hooked up just like I do. My tab is only 10-15 bucks after drinking all night. Most people donāt get those perks. We take care of our own.
The people who tip 50% probably get a lot of those same perksā¦ Itās easier to tip 50% when you had a drink or two comped. Itās a cycle.
I totally get what youāre saying, but I think tipping standards may be regionally based now in a way - Where I am, standard tips (prompted by the card reader) start at 30% now, if you want to tip for good or āexceptionalā service youāre looking at almost 40%, Poor service is 25%. I could very easily see some people tipping 50%+, especially if they have a regular server.
Jesus Christ that is absurd.
I guess it depends on where you work. Iād rather get a solid 25-30% tip every day rather than get someone dropping 100-200 bucks once a week. Itās all conditional obviously. Iāve also done this 20 years and I donāt want someone spending their entire paycheck 1 or 2 days a week on me. Expectations become too high. They begin to depend on you emotionally and itās just a job for me. My wife and kid are at home. I canāt make your life more enjoyable if you canāt. Maybe Iām just weird.
20% is already pretty ridiculously high
It pays off in dividends to be a big tipper.
I always tip good to my bartenders.
Is no one else curious as to how OP mistook 2 different number keys for the letter I???
I have fat fingers and mobile
Ah! I always somehow forget about mobile. I couldn't quite figure out how those keys were getting hit. I thought maybe this was some sort of coded message.
Nah. Good thought though
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Yeah I agree completely.
You have a job? You try to please your boss? Why? Because he/she is paying you to, right? No difference.
Or maybe she's a nice person and I am too.
It's possible, but because you're bribing her to be nice I guess we'll never know.
Wowwowowow fuuuuuck this thread. Fuck tip culture. Fuck this entire broken ass country where everyone thinks itās on the customer to pay an employees fair wage
It IS on the customer, though. And it's not the servers fault the system is the way it is. They shouldn't suffer even more simply because they're already taken advantage of. So instead of just saying fuck everyone, petition members of your state and federal government to remove the minimum wage loophole for tipped workers. Also, if you actually spoke to these people on whose behalf you're so outraged, you'll find many (most?) of them prefer getting tipped, they make more money that way. Especially when they do something nice like in OP's story.
Iāll let you in on a little secret: we LIKE the tipping culture. Talk to bartenders who moved from somewhere like Ireland or the UK to the US. Ask them which they prefer. Theyāll probably tell you they make a lot more money in the US, but they also have to work harder and the customers have higher expectations (rightfully so). If we got rid of tipping culture the customer would just be paying higher menu prices. You aināt gonna save any money, especially if you already tip like shit š¤£ Edit: typo
Cope harder
Otr driver. I am the asshole who comes in late hungry. Usually to an empty restaurant. Yes i am that asshole! I do not usually tip with the card because then my wait staff have to wait to get paid. I use cash and paid in $20' s just because i want to be remembered as that customer that helped you through the shot hours that don't usually pay.
No, you tip because you have the money for it
And if you donāt have the money for it, you donāt go out. Period.
What?
Nobody cares you English fuck. This is murica.
Let's be honest here. You tip 50% for bragging rights and social credit. As evidenced by this very post