Tipping is out of hand (haha, pun intended!) — Page 2

I've never understood why it's expected to tip food delivery people really well. It's not as though they're making a waiter/waitress's salary where they depend on tips -- they're paid normal wages, so there's pretty much no way I'm tipping 15-20%. I'll tip a couple of dollars to help cover gas money, but not much more than that.

I'm not sure that's the case here in the city. I have a feeling a lot of those delivery guys are working for tips. They're most likely illegal aliens. I always feel grateful to them because rain, shine, snow, freezing, hot, late, early, they're always outside biking or walking to you. And most of the time in my neighborhood, they have to walk up several flights.

I always overtip them.

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I always tip delivery people very well. I once had a very nice sushi delivery man say "you tip too much," but I laughed him off. I've waited tables, I know people can be douchebags and that there are a lot of crappy tippers, and I figure if I can afford to pay for food to be delivered (including a delivery fee that I'm pretty sure the driver doesn't see much of) then I can afford to tip on the high side.

And I love you, too, Mr. Roxy.

Tipping doesn't exist in Australia at all. Except maybe the oddball tourist who doesn't know better.

Saying that... having lived in the states I did enjoy tipping and good lord, every service person I ever had did earn their tip and I was more then happy to ablige them with a nice one. Here in Oz serving staff completely disapear into some wormhole or rift in space and time once the food had been delivered (and this goes from your normal family resturants to your swanky places - it is all the same).

Without the need to work for tips (in fact the serving industry I have to say is rather decently paid as well, often $17-20 an hour), well without the need to work for tips as soon as the food is ordered they don't bother. Heck I have to say there is often a long wait between seating and drinks as well I have found, not that you don't get a good one or two mind you.

So while people complain about tips, it does have alot of advantages I must say.

Though I agree, a tip jar at an automat is bizarre as say the carwash I once went to!

Same here my delivery guys have to go up four flights of stairs. I look at them out the peephole, and they always have to stop and catch their breath on the way up the last flight. I usually get a 13 dollar pizza and I give the guy a 20 dollar bill.

But I just had my landlord's handymen fix a shelf in my closet. Should I have given them a tip for that? I gave them glasses of cold water.

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I picked up dinner at Subway last night and saw a tip jar on the counter there.

The Dunkin' Donuts around the corner has a tip jar and it always depresses me. The people behind the counter seem to always be there, whether I'm there at 7am, 1am, 7pm, 11pm....its always the same two people, and they always look like they are about to drop dead from exhaustion. And the tip jar? Its a big Dunkin' Donuts mug full of nickels and pennies.

The worst is when the line is long, and its yuppie after yuppie dropping their 7 cents, 13 cents, etc in change after their coffee into the tip jar.

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