Tipping goes
food is now 20% but for me if its bad service i just do 10% "hey the person did bring out the food and took the order, so Im fair about that"
drinks are $1 tip unless there is a hookup from the bar
cleaning staff thats up too you.... For me when i stay at the hotel, I pile up the towels to one area of the bathroom.
hair stylist, yes if you plan to return to the person. I have over 5 plus years.
taxi driver depends on how long the drive is.
Dining at a restaurant, how much of a tip is appropriate?
Is a tip customary when staying at a hotel? If so, how much is appropriate to leave the cleaning staff?
A few drinks at the bar, do you tip a certain % or $1 per drink?
Do you tip your hair stylist? If so, what's appropriate?
What about the taxi driver?
is tomorrows question how much should i pay for a new tv?
Ummm... let me guess. You voted for Romney.
I don't tip on a job well done. I think doing your job well is an expectation. If someone meets my expectation they get repeat business from me.
I also will not tip if my bill contains a gratitude expense. I never could understand why a business would place that on my bill for, forcing me to leave them a tip. I also don't tip if someone asks for a tip. I actually had a cab driver do this to me before as I was fishing in my pocket for it. I getting give him one and left.
I usually leave tips for wait staff. Most of the time their employer isn't paying them well enough as it is, so I try to make up for the stinginess of the one percent by leaving them something. I'll also tip for those that I see regularly and have some I see on a regular basis. For example, I loved, LOVED a hairstylist that I use to see in college and use to tip him generously.
Waiters/Waitresses in IL only make $3-4 per hour. If they do good you should tip 15-20%. Average Service 10%, and bad service 0-5%.
They should try to do well since they need the tips to survive.
I think it depends on a few things
If I go for breakfast and it's only a few bucks for a couple eggs and toast I'll always tip at least 5.00 if they were friendly and attentive.
Pizza guys, minimum 5.00 too, more if they came a long way, weather bad, etc.
Of course, if I'm by myself, I usually do about 30% or more because it takes just as much work to take one order as it does two and I don't want the waitperson to suffer because I'm there alone.
Tipping goes
food is now 20% but for me if its bad service i just do 10% "hey the person did bring out the food and took the order, so Im fair about that"
drinks are $1 tip unless there is a hookup from the bar
cleaning staff thats up too you.... For me when i stay at the hotel, I pile up the towels to one area of the bathroom.
hair stylist, yes if you plan to return to the person. I have over 5 plus years.
taxi driver depends on how long the drive is.
Waiters and waitresses (min 20% up to 33%), the pizza delivery guy ($5 - $7), the guy at the car wash $2 - $10), I over tip them all. Those are minimum wage (or lower) paying jobs. They are probably trying to raise a family, so I feel better thinking that I made their life a little easier. I always ignore the tip jar for counter type service. I find those jars rude and offensive. I rarely tip on high priced services, or a hotel room unless I am staying for a week.
Is a tip customary when staying at a hotel? If so, how much is appropriate to leave the cleaning staff? Depends, I don't use a hotel for the industry so it is only personal trips I am talking about. So, if I feel I am overcharged for a room I rented and the promised amenities are mini sized and the room not well kept then I don't leave a tip. This is rare but just this last supper I had a horrible experience with a Super 8 room, 100$ they didn't have the promised roll away for me and the awesome breakfast they said they had was laughable. I did not leave a tip as I only stayed 1 night and the room did not look like it had been vacuumed! Later a stayed at a Best Western and it was very nice, stayed a couple nights and did not ask for service during(I don't like people coming into the room) however the room was reasonable, room clean, breakfast was good, amenities were as advertized so I left 10$. I know if you leave to much they get suspicious not that I was doing anything but hey I had refused service so don't like to draw attention.
A few drinks at the bar, do you tip a certain % or $1 per drink? Usually 1$ per drink is the easy way to go
Do you tip your hair stylist? If so, what's appropriate? I rarely get my hair cut and when I do it is nothing fancy because my hair is easy to cut, Super Cuts and generally on a 15$ hair cut I will tip 5$
What about the taxi driver? Depends, if he was a good driver and if he got lost. I have had Cab Drivers drive through the stick gate thing at the toll booth and break it off on the hood, he did not get a tip. Try to aviod cabs and prefer Car services/Limo Drivers. For a small party they just drive you in a Lincoln Towncar and the fee is only a little more, them I usually tip about 5-7$ when they drive me to or from the airport(costs a little less then parking and don't have to worry about my car getting damaged there OR having to make it to and from the extended parking lot, but then I am not that far from the airport)...
go up from there. A waitress/er has to do a really horrible job for me to give them less than that. I have wavy hair... it is waving goodbye so he/she gets 2-3 bucks for the 187 secondss they spent buzzing the sides.... :-0> cab driver is the same as waitress/er.
I hate when I am out to dinner with someone and the server was off the charts awesome and the person(s) I am with get out the calculator to figure out the 15%....are u serious?! This person gets $2.00 an hour plus tips. That same guy will throw 100 at a girl in a g-string in a new yawk second!!! LOL!