You ever observe people not tipping?
Muddy
USA
Not with lap dances or VIP because that's a totally different thing in my view but like with the standard stuff like waitresses/bartenders and tip walks. I've been seeing some stuff online about restaurant waitresses and servers bitching about how so many people don't leave tips. Maybe it's more common than I realize I just wonder how hard that hitting the strip club world. I'm not a big tipper personally more of standard type tipper, beer, leave a dollar, anything more complicated I double the tax. But definitely not nothing.
And I'm fully aware are headspace is in what the naked girls are doing but maybe you sat next to somebody who was holding out.
And I'm fully aware are headspace is in what the naked girls are doing but maybe you sat next to somebody who was holding out.
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So, when I tipped for my drinks, I tipped significantly extra. She knew why I did it and thanked me. Partially I did it because I thought it was a shitty thing to do. But also it's not a bad thing if the bartenders like you a bit more than the next guy at a regulars' club.
Where did you grow up? Standard tipping rates in the US are 15% for standard service, 20% for good service, 25% or more for excellent service, and have been for as long as I can remember, which is a long time. In my regular club, I routinely tip on the excellent side, for the reason stated by CMI.
The servers you speak of are bearing the brunt of the ridiculous expectations to tip at fast food places when your lunch isn't made to order and places where you take something out of a cooler, walk it to the counter to pay for it, and there's a tip jar sitting there. Employees who aren't categorized not paid as tipped employees shouldn't be getting them.
In order of appearance I tip:
* Doorman gets change from door fee.
* waitress gets change from drink fee (non alcoholic here in WA).
* stage dancers get $5-$10 in 1s if I want them to stop by.
* LDA dancers get their asking price plus $0-$20 depending on quality of service.
* VIP dancers get their asking price plus $20-$50.
On drinks, I tend to tip $3. If I’m ordering multiple drinks, it’s $3 per drink or more if the dancer I’m with orders some complicated cocktail. In one of my local clubs, I routinely get extra uncounted time in the timed rooms. Is it because I tip? I don’t know but I’ll continue to tip.
Same as doc, standard tips at restaurants are 15/20/25%.
I was in Spain years ago and my friends got angry that I left a tip on the table.
Plus, who came up with rule that determines which professions deserve a tip and which don’t ? A doctor saves your life and doesn’t get a tip. A waiter brings you a Diet Coke and expects a tip.
He put me and my buddy in charge of the entire hot dog operation. (He must have fallen asleep during management training when they talked about pilferage and internal controls.) We even stopped at the Sabrett distributor to pick up all the supplies on our way into work on Saturday mornings. I don't remember the numbers exactly, but the markup on hot dogs is fuckin' ridiculous, and the P&L for our department got a nice bump, even after all the money we were stealing. We probably pocketed $50 bucks a day all in cash, which was about the same as either one of us earned legitimately. We would either split the proceeds or go out to a bar and spend it all.
Then my buddy suggested we should start putting a fucking tip jar on the cart. It was a pretty bold move because tip jars weren't common like nowadays. We'd bait the jar with a few singles folded lengthwise and sticking out the top. Sure as shit people started tipping and we more than doubled our "hot dog bonus" as we called it. Most of our customers were dudes who had a girlfriends or trophy wives burning up their credit cards in the shoe department or wherever while the guys hung out around our cart. They didn't think twice about tipping the hot dog guy.
For me, I tip waitresses and bartenders decently. Not enough where they're excited to see me or anything, but certainly not low enough where they'd rather not wait on me. 2 bucks a drink is probably typical. I tip dancers commensurate with their service level, or my interest in them. I don't do rejection tips or nonsense like that. Tip walks really depend. I'll play along if its the culture of the club, but as soon as I notice the girls taking advantage I shut down the whole thing, or leave.
There's a lot of situations I don't tip in out of ignorance. A few I don't out of principle. But in general I'll usually tip. Even for shitty service, I find a small tip makes it more clear that I was dissatisfied with the service than not tipping at all.
I even had some customers ask for the moon and then saying dumb shit like ‘I’m gonna take care you’ and then leaving a tiny tip. No real skin off my back in the big scheme but it has shaped my own biases.
Everyone is bitching about how inflation is making everything more expensive, then they can’t wait to increase the price of their dinner/coffee/beer etc. by an extra 25% by tipping.
And why does a guy carrying my steak, plated by the kitchen staff, deserve a $50 tip on a $200 dinner but the kid in my neighborhood restaurant only gets $10 (even though that is also 25%) for doing the EXACT same thing.
My daughter works in a higher end lounge and getting $500 extra a night is considered by her a below average night. And that is on top of her decent hourly wage.
And the suggestion at the bottom of nearly every restaurant receipt “helping” you calculate if you want to leave 20/25/30% as if anything less is unacceptable is annoying. I can multiply thanks.
Then to top it off now even clothing store, pet supply stores and book stores etc. offer you a “tip” option when you check out.
I haven’t seen it yet but I expect I will soon see a tip jar at the self checkout kiosk.
Generally speaking I believe better service Will Always yield better tips. Sure you might get the occasional cheap skate but I can assure you they are a minority.
Point being, if you want to be consistently earning good tips provide good service!!
A Door Dash driver says he declines 70% of all orders. If people don’t tip upfront or don’t enough he won’t pick up an order.
But I refuse to tip at coffee shops and fast food restaurants. I fucking hate when they swing the iPad in your direction, with the "no tip" box in red in order to chide you for not tipping. I also hate the "suggested tip" and "automatic tip" boxes. I have a visceral reaction to being hustled. It's a great way to assure I won't tip more than the bare minimum.
LOL. I probably wouldn't have even read this if you hadn't brought it up, but it's a pretty funny typo.
In the places I club, if you're paying cash and not tipping your bartender/waitress, they'll quickly forget that you exist. That means that you have to chase down every fresh drink, which is a PITA. And if you're drinking hard alcohol, you can safely assume that your pour is going to be shit. Conversely, it's amazing how smooth everything goes if you take care of them.
Now yes, like many, I'm not fond of having to deal with everyone with their hands out. But in a place like a strip club, a little love can go a long way. Also, tbh, for most of us tipping service staff is a tiny % of our spending in a club. So I make sure everyone gets taken care of, including the door girl and even the bathroom troll.
It is sometimes frustrating watching other custies bring cheap, but as I have learned from another thread, it's best to just focus on my own tipping, rather than be brought down by the dreggs of society.
I have a particular distaste for the quibbling by any customer in any stripclubs regarding domestic beer prices when a domestic beer is $10 or under. That is subject to an expression by me that tends to be less than kind sometimes.
If the club has happy hour prices, regularly tipping whatever the discount is. At a regular spot, tipping up to 100% of the bill. It pays to be well known in a spot you really like
why didn't you just tip her the next time you visited that club, it happened to me years ago, not that I forgot, but the bartender that was taking my drinks shift ended and I didn't realize that until she had left. Next visit I walked right over to her and gave her a twenty and apologized that I didn't realize her shift was coming to an end. That happened almost twenty years ago and we've been friends ever since, as a matter of fact she provides me with intel on the girls in the club is always quick to buy me a beer.