Should tipping be banned in the foods and beverage industry?

Question

Tipping is the bane of my existence and we don't receive better service for it, if we can all agree to stop completely then everything will be better.

I am sick of the expectation of a tip, I didn't receive better service, I received what I paid for;nothing more.

STOP TIPPING ... weeeee

Answer 1

well, i dont think waiters/waitresses will agree.

I agree you shouldn't just tip for average service (especially not if a service charge is included in the bill!), but if the waiter has been helpful and/or informative, its common courtesy to give a tip.

unless, of course, they do an asian waiter and hand back the money one note at a time, waiting for you to tell them to stop...then just dont give a tip out of spite

Answer 2

I agree with wendylil... raise the pay rate to minimum wage and do away with tips. I have degrees in Foof Service Management and Culinary Arts. What I have found is: The added costs to our food would be worth the savings from stoppage of the tip.

Most waitstaff do not work for it as Vivacity suggests. They figure it as entitlement. He thinks that a tip is a bribe or reward for someone just doing their job. h**l, why do we not tip the grocery clerk or auto parts sales person too? Over the years the quality of service has got worse and the tip expectation increased. If you ask about wine or beer they do not have a clue. Ask if the sauce has dairy, they do not know. They make one return trip to your table one-minute after service to ask how the food is. But we have hardly had time to taste it. Later when you need something you must hunt them down. Many are just teenage kids or college students looking for a buck and not a career.  Exceptions can be found in higher levels of service ("gourmet") restaurants. But this too is not always so. The added costs to our food would be worth the savings from stoppage of the tip.

I had a discussion with a bartender (serving me beers) about tipping. I mentioned that cooks need to be tipped too. He said, “well you have choose your job.” My reply to him is "yes, and you chose yours." He got no tip from me.

Today, it seems everyone has their hands out for a tip just for doing their job.

I say pay everyone minimum wage and go back to the old and actually better system of,  T = To; I = Insure; P = Promptness.

Answer 3

Your tip, Is you my friend are shot out....

Answer 4

The problem with doing away with tipping altogether is a server would have no incentive to give a little extra in the service department.  Wages would have to be raised (did you know that their pay is about 1/2 minimum wage?), then even the slowest, laziest, most incompetent server would get the same as the harder working, kinder more attentive one.  Tipping is a pain, but the whole idea is to tip not because it is expected, but directly in relation to the service received.

Answer 5

If tipping was banned, servers would have to be paid basically the same as cooks, hosts, etc. in a restaurant.  That would be a huge expense to the restaurant/club/diner/whatever owners.  That extra cost would have to be passed on to you, and it would be very substantial.  

Answer 6

yeah it's really annoying, why don't they just include it in the bill?

"service charge" is stupid too, the people who run the place should pay the waiters and not put pressure on the customers to do that.

Answer 7

Tipping is an absolute scourge.. Waiters /waitresses should be paid an award wage. The inference with tipping is that everyone should accept crappy service as the norm and good service comes about from tipping... How crazy is that. I don't get any extra wages for doing a good job, I do a good job because that is the way you should do things. Restaurant / bar owners pay their staff crappy wages and expect you to make it up... So you are paying for your meal/ drinks AND the staff wages. TIPS stands for To Increase Proprietors Surplus. s***w tipping !!!

Answer 8

Tipping is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. There is already a goods and services tax, so why pay for service twice. I don't care how much waiting staff pout and fidget, they are not getting one single penny. In fact, I would rather fight an ancient Rancor with a gaff hook than tip in a restaurant.