You, sir, are a complete retard.

Only in America~ In the wider world, you tip however much you want, depending on how satisfied you are with the food and/or the quality of service. it's also optional. There's also no such BS as waiters/waitresses getting below minimum wage. If a restaurant isn't getting a lot of customers (and hence "tips"), that's the management's problem and employees shouldn't have to earn less.

Actually, TIPS does not stand for that.

tips aren't for 'insuring' proper service, it's for acknowledging *exceptional* service. if you don't do your job properly just because someone doesn't tip, then you are surely over-entitled. and not really encouraging the small-tippers to tip you, ever.

At my job, I put together takeout orders too. You get paid server wage for take out as well. You rely on tips. That .40 cents won't pay my power, rent and food bills asshole.

It's not only optional, it's uncommon to tip for takeout. I worked at Denny's 15 years ago, I know how much servers get shit on. Just use it as an excuse to improve your life with a better job, not bitch on the Internet how you deserve better. The only person who is going to work to improve your life is You.

It's optional, but the better the place, the more common it is to get tipped for carryout. Dennys is more of a fast food place than somewhere I would actually call a restaurant.

No one said surviving on $7.25 an hour is easy, but if you don't like it, go get some actual skills. Seriously, for a large order, how long does it take to gather some food and cuttlery and put it in a bag? If you actually think that is difficult, that's probably the reason the best job you can get is in the food industry. So how long does that take? For a large order, 10 minutes, max? A minute here a minute there. So you expect to be paid extra for that? That is part of YOUR JOB. Your job is not ot just sit there for an hour and get paid $7 and then every movement you make adds money to that base pay. So for a $100 takeout order, where you put in a maximum of ten minutes (generous estimate), you expect people to tip you $10-20 (I'm sure you would gripe about a $10 tip)? $10-20 for 10 minutes of work. That's $60-120 per hour. Even for a small order of $10, the same math would get you $6-12 an hour, on top of your base pay. I'm sorry, but if you are handling takeouts, you likely have at best a highschool education. It is also likely that you are new, and not yet skilled enough to be a server. Do you really think your unskilled labor putting food in a bag is worth more than the unskilled worker at Burger King who makes minimum wage? I don't want to hear about how hard you work. I'm sure you do. If you're also a server, I'm sure that bus-boy at your restaurant who makes less than you works just as hard. We pay people based on three important factors: (1) How much time they work (as judged by a clock), (2) How hard they work (as judged by your employer, or perhaps the people you serve), and (3) How valuable their skill is (as judged by your employer and society as a whole). Want to make more money? The answer is not bitching, but instead working on one or all of these three things. Work more hours. Don't want to or can't? Work harder (in the eyes of the people who matter). Don't want to? GET SOME FU**ING skills! Get an education. Get a degree. Invent something. Go ***** yourself around (yep, those are valuable skills to some people). Anyone can wait tables, some better than others, but anyone can do it. Stop overvaluing your skills. Many people work hard, yet we all get paid differently because some skills are valued more than others. That's life.

You'd be surprised what a wait staff makes. And there is all kinds of people, even with degrees, that waitress. Regardless if you tip or not, they still pay tax on the expected tip-even if they get ZERO> So, that is why non tippers get poor service, it literally costs them money to serve you. Everyone has a right to work, and there are no "small"people except cheap people like you!

i dont think any one here is trying to survive off 7.15 / week. they probably wouldnt have access to a computer.

@166. I don't know (m)any people with degrees who wait tables, at least not people with useful degrees. If there are in fact that many people with degrees who wait tables (or better yet, handle takeout orders) it should tell you something: that many servers are greatly overpaid. I actually tip very well, usually 20%, but the more I think about it, and the more I hear servers bitching about their pay, the more I reconsider that. I personally don't think servers should make much more than minimum wage. They are unskilled labor just like house janitors and cashiers. Why should they get more money. I also personally don't value the job they do at all. Regardless of the quality of food, I go out because I either cannot or do not feel like cooking the meal I will be ordering. I eat out based on the cook/chef's skills, not the server's. If every restaurant (even the expensive ones) suddenly became Panera or fast food style where you order and bring your own food to your seat, and you get up every time you need a refil or a napkin, I would have no problem with that. I have no problem walking 50 feet a few times throughout a meal. But seriously. Servers, you are by far the highest paid unskilled labor around, so stop whining.

hell yeah 7.25 ain't near enough I work for a movie theater which pays no overtime

Asshole. I don't have a bus boy. I don't have food runners. Sometimes we also have to seat the door on top of our duties because there isn't a host around. Don't say boxing up a to go order is easy. When you have 5 tables, and a to go order, it's very hard. Boxing up a large order takes time away from your tables, hurting your tips. So when some asshole like you has a 100 dollar to go order at 6 o'clock on a Friday night and don't leave me a tip, we are basically working for free. It doesn't just take "10 minutes" to box something up "real" quick. There is a lot more that goes into it. You have to box certain things separate, make sure there are enough sauces and dressings, everything that comes with the meal is there, ect. And just because I sometimes find my job hard and stressful, doesn't mean I only have a high school diploma. I actually have a degree in nursing, and have past my boards. I've been looking for a job for months now. The economy sucks, everyone knows that, and finding a job nowadays is hard. You take what you get. So **** you and your "it's so easy to box up" blah blah blah blah attitude.