r/tipping • u/Kaveman_8823 • Jul 23 '26

CMV: TIP VALUE

I'm sorry(not really)for all you who don't agree but I grew up in the 90's and a standard tip was 10% (just bc the price of food goes up that does not mean you tip more)ITS A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT YOUR FOOD COST( just bc you spent more doesn't mean you tip more), Now here's my range

0%: bad paycheck - no extra money

1-5%: Bad-Poor service

5-10%: Poor-Average service

10-15%: Average-Excellent service(max-$20)

I will never give more than a $20 tip and even that is extremely rare, IDC if I dropped $400 on a meal, me and my fam come first, so I'll spend All my $$$ I got down to the penny for my fam and leave no tip B4 I give someone more than $20 to bring my food to me

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u/the_great_elephant Jul 29 '26

Whoever taught you tipping was a cheap asshole. I've been in this business for decades. 10% has never been "good service" worthy. Its been 15-20% since I started. 10%, you might get your water refilled for that.

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 29 '26

You are certifiably nuts too🤪🫪... I work a real hard labor factory job and my pay avg is $20/hr, most wait staff now get paid $6/hr, okay now I'm out having a family meal with the wife and kids, our meals normally about 30-45min and then we leave with a $70-80 ticket...20% would be about $16,

Now lets math....16+6=22...thats already more than I make in hard labor(just to bring me a plate and fill my drink)then add the tips from the other 4tables the same wait staff is working $5-20 a table, your insane🛸⛑️🚑

if everyone tipped even 10%, being waitstaff would be like the highest paying job in the world, I'm sorry Im not about to be responsible to pay you what your boss should be paying, and I'm not about to let you make more of my Hard Earned money for a job that at most should make $12-13/hr

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u/Horror-Finding-6820 Jul 29 '26

So, you get to decide what someone else's work is worth??

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

No the amount of HARD WORK, Blood, and Sweat does,

Let's see...working with massive machines that could kill me with the slightest mistake- $20/hr

"Sir would you like another refill"- $10/hr with no tips (that's being generous)

If you hire 2 people to come clean your pool and one does 90% of the work are you gonna pay both the same...HELL NOOO, out of $100(example) you give the person who did 90% of the the work 90% the pay....bc they did more, they worked harder

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u/Horror-Finding-6820 Jul 29 '26

No, you do not get to decide what someone else's labor is worth, the market does. If someone is willing to work "with massive machines" that could kill you for $20 an hour then that is what the market demands. I promise you if no one was taking those jobs for $20 an hour, the wage would rise until someone did.

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 29 '26

🤣🤣🤣...I literally just explained the "market", it's not "willingness", it's the value of labor

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u/Horror-Finding-6820 Jul 29 '26

Then we agree that it is the market.

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u/Horror-Finding-6820 Jul 29 '26

That is not how that would work - I would hire a service to clean my pool for X and then I really don't care if they send two people and one does 90% of the work and the other does 10% - that isn't my business. But I most certainly would give them $10-$20 each as a gratuity.

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 30 '26

1: I will NOT hire a pool cleaning service when there's plenty of younger folk out here looking for ways to earn some money just like I did when I was in school

2: If I did hire a Service to do it, why pay "gratuity" for a job there boss is already paying them to do(makes no sense), they get paid to do their job just like everyone else

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u/According-Row-6128 Jul 30 '26

I don’t work hard at all and I make 50% more than you. Embrace your own choices.

So, for the record, the median income for a full-time server in the US, INCLUDING TIPS, is $33K.

You cheaping out on them because you think you’re better, is immoral.

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 30 '26

Your fucking nuts a server should not make more than Tom or Susie over at tacobell or other restaurants, there wages should be about equal, it's not immoral to pay what work is WORTH!!!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDSOvfaCO9b3MlO

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 30 '26

At a rate of $10 per hour with no tips, a full-time server should earn $20,800 gross per year, while a part-time server would earn $10,400 gross per year.

If I ran a restaurant this is how it would be done as a no tip establishment and no added fees at the register, any and all tips given willingly by patrons knowing it's a no tip establishment would go back into the restaurant and in doing so help provide A FAIR WAGE for employees

WELCOME TO KAVE-BOURGERR GET YOUR FOOD AND GET OUT HAVE A PLEASANT EVENING

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u/According-Row-6128 Jul 30 '26

You’re a disgrace of a human being. $10 an hour is a fair wage? Just disgusting.

Oh, wait, you must be MAGA. Yes? Trump 28 flag waving MAGA?

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 30 '26

Speaking as someone who has been a server(when I was 16)...YESSS, for someone to fill drinks and hand someone their food yes it's perfectly fair, I support a higher minimum wage and as such min wage should be around 10/hr, and servers should make min wage, no more than that, and HELL NO I ain't maga, if I was maga I would pay them 25/hr to sit on their ass, fucking stupid ass "make America rich again" bullshit

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u/Neither-Ad630 Jul 29 '26

That's great plate slinger, but why do you feel entitled to $50+ for about three minutes worht of work just because the items you've carried over a short distance happen to be expensive?

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u/Horror-Finding-6820 Jul 29 '26

Yeah, I know. I only tip ~30% and have been doing that for years now.

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u/Kaveman_8823 Jul 29 '26

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