Comments on: How To Tip A Bartender. http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/ Where nerdy meets cool. And then cool ignores it until nerdy finally takes a hint and leaves. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: CDF http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-18315 CDF Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:12:09 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-18315 why is it an entitlement program? Thy're losers who are too lazy to work a real job. Twist a beer cap and I owe u $1? Why is the price so inflated by the greedy owner? Get real! They get a paycheck like I do and nobody tips me. TELL THE OWNER TO PAY U WHAT U R WORTH AND DON"T DIG INTO MY POCKET why is it an entitlement program? Thy're losers who are too lazy to work a real job. Twist a beer cap and I owe u $1? Why is the price so inflated by the greedy owner? Get real! They get a paycheck like I do and nobody tips me. TELL THE OWNER TO PAY U WHAT U R WORTH AND DON”T DIG INTO MY POCKET

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]]> By: Shannonlayes http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-18287 Shannonlayes Thu, 26 May 2011 14:44:19 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-18287 So what to tip when the drink only costs $1.00? So what to tip when the drink only costs $1.00?

]]> By: Twtybean http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-15982 Twtybean Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:22:43 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-15982 Yes, 20%! REALLY!!! All bullshit aside, bartenders make $2.13 AN HOUR!!! We rely on tips. If you are working in a nightclub, you still have to clean plates, tables, pull gum out of ashtrays, clean those ashtrays, mop up puke, restock beer and supplies, etc. In a bar (not restaurant) setting, the bartenders do MORE work than the servers, plus having to know the recipes of all drinks (servers do not) and many have to make the drinks for the servers. Not to mention, having to put up with lame pick-up lines, dirty jokes, and demeaning comments from drunk customers. $1 a drink, especially if it is a complicated drink like a long island or a messy drink like a lemon drop, is NOT APPROPRIATE!! Tip based on the price of the drink, not on how many you have. If it takes more time to make it, the bartender is spending more time on you and having to make other customers wait. PAY them for their time and attention. Yes, 20%! REALLY!!! All bullshit aside, bartenders make $2.13 AN HOUR!!! We rely on tips. If you are working in a nightclub, you still have to clean plates, tables, pull gum out of ashtrays, clean those ashtrays, mop up puke, restock beer and supplies, etc. In a bar (not restaurant) setting, the bartenders do MORE work than the servers, plus having to know the recipes of all drinks (servers do not) and many have to make the drinks for the servers. Not to mention, having to put up with lame pick-up lines, dirty jokes, and demeaning comments from drunk customers. $1 a drink, especially if it is a complicated drink like a long island or a messy drink like a lemon drop, is NOT APPROPRIATE!! Tip based on the price of the drink, not on how many you have. If it takes more time to make it, the bartender is spending more time on you and having to make other customers wait. PAY them for their time and attention.

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]]> By: Mark http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Mark Mon, 11 May 2009 07:25:31 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-520 Re: polexia and gnick if you are having problems paying your taxes ask your employer to take off extra from your paychecks to help offset this. my gf does this and it works out fine. no giant payment at the end of the year.perfect. i understand you get paid a shitty wage. that sucks. i understand that the government makes you pay for tips you are supposed to get(but that whole honour system thing doesn't mean you have to declare all of it does it? do you always declare all of it?). that sucks. i understand that you have to deal with drunks and spilt drinks(omg!). that sucks. what i dont understand is why this has to be my problem. why does your choice in a job that is obviously so aggravating have to be my problem. most people who don't like dealing with people stay away from jobs where you have to deal with actual customers face to face. its a shitty situation and i realize you stay because of the tips and you make good money because of the tips. lets say a server has served 3 tables in an hour each bill average $60. so that leaves about $30 in tips and (here in BC anyhow) $8 dollars in wages. 38 dollars an hour is prettty damn good considering and its pretty damn outrageous as well. and thats just three tables.you think your job is honestly worth that kind of money? Regardless of how many questions are asked about the fancy martini some chick wants, it is your job to make the damn thing and you get paid for it. you get paid shitty but again not the customers problem. charging extra for questions is crap. imagine a customer service desk charging per question. and the comment about the cashier not deserving a tip because all he had to do was punch a few buttons on a register? crap too. if you get me a beer you say you want a dollar for uncappin the thing and takeing my money? you just did the same amount of work as those people you think shouldnt be tipped. go to a grocery store. those cashiers ring up tons of stuff, and bag it to, in an organized manner so stuff isnt crushed or contaminated. but you wouldnt tip her right? seems to me she would be just as deserving. its not your job to listen to problems you just happen to be standing there while somebody is talking or slurring probably. its great that you make good money without a huge student loan. you are doin better than lots of people im sure. you really shouldnt be but hey thats the world we live in. if you are a bartender and are complaining about making people drinks...well i dont even know what to say to that. bottom line is you get paid what your employer feels you are worth. same as everybody else in the world. you guys complain about your jobs same as everybody else in the world. If you thought it was a good job we wouldn't have to tip you. Its not the expense of the thing, thats not the point. i can afford to eat out, i like eating out. i just don't like giving you guys money more money for just doin your job. and if you cant afford to tip don't tip. period. the server just made more than you do an hour off the other two tables if thats the case Re: polexia and gnick
if you are having problems paying your taxes ask your employer to take off extra from your paychecks to help offset this. my gf does this and it works out fine. no giant payment at the end of the year.perfect. i understand you get paid a shitty wage. that sucks. i understand that the government makes you pay for tips you are supposed to get(but that whole honour system thing doesn’t mean you have to declare all of it does it? do you always declare all of it?). that sucks. i understand that you have to deal with drunks and spilt drinks(omg!). that sucks. what i dont understand is why this has to be my problem. why does your choice in a job that is obviously so aggravating have to be my problem. most people who don’t like dealing with people stay away from jobs where you have to deal with actual customers face to face. its a shitty situation and i realize you stay because of the tips and you make good money because of the tips. lets say a server has served 3 tables in an hour each bill average $60. so that leaves about $30 in tips and (here in BC anyhow) $8 dollars in wages. 38 dollars an hour is prettty damn good considering and its pretty damn outrageous as well. and thats just three tables.you think your job is honestly worth that kind of money? Regardless of how many questions are asked about the fancy martini some chick wants, it is your job to make the damn thing and you get paid for it. you get paid shitty but again not the customers problem. charging extra for questions is crap. imagine a customer service desk charging per question. and the comment about the cashier not deserving a tip because all he had to do was punch a few buttons on a register? crap too. if you get me a beer you say you want a dollar for uncappin the thing and takeing my money? you just did the same amount of work as those people you think shouldnt be tipped. go to a grocery store. those cashiers ring up tons of stuff, and bag it to, in an organized manner so stuff isnt crushed or contaminated. but you wouldnt tip her right? seems to me she would be just as deserving. its not your job to listen to problems you just happen to be standing there while somebody is talking or slurring probably. its great that you make good money without a huge student loan. you are doin better than lots of people im sure. you really shouldnt be but hey thats the world we live in. if you are a bartender and are complaining about making people drinks…well i dont even know what to say to that. bottom line is you get paid what your employer feels you are worth. same as everybody else in the world. you guys complain about your jobs same as everybody else in the world. If you thought it was a good job we wouldn’t have to tip you. Its not the expense of the thing, thats not the point. i can afford to eat out, i like eating out. i just don’t like giving you guys money more money for just doin your job. and if you cant afford to tip don’t tip. period. the server just made more than you do an hour off the other two tables if thats the case

]]> By: gnick http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-519 gnick Mon, 11 May 2009 02:38:37 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-519 Couldn't agree more with Polexia. What most people don't realize or care to acknowledge is that most servers/bartenders make $2.13/hr, which is the absolute minimum that is required by law, at least in my state. In other parts of the world, the employers include the labor costs into your bill, paying for the person serving your food (really a much better system, imo). However here in the states, the customer is allowed to be the judge. That doesn't mean we're looking for handouts, as one of you put it. If you are just ordering $8 heinekens (glad I don't live there), I see no problem in throwing a buck a beer or so, but if you walk in to my bar, weave your way through the crowd, and proceed to ask 17 questions about every drink you've seen on Sex in the City, and finally settle on a margarita (light salt, crushed ice, extra tequila, but not too strong, 3 limes <--actual order from tonight), I'm gonna expect a little more than the coins in your change purse. As a bartender, Im also required to listen to your problems, stop your drunk friend from ending up in jail, and in my spare time deliver a drink to the hot girl at the end of the bar who wants nothing to do with you, since she's waiting on her boyfriend (also bartending) to get off work. You can call me uneducated all you want, but I don't owe 50k in student loans, don't work in a cubicle with Dilbert cartoons on the "walls", don't wake up a 5:00 am to sit in an hour of traffic, don't have to kiss ass for that promotion you're not getting, and I ENJOY what I do for a living. I do however believe if the service is shit, tip should reflect that (somebody PLEASE post a how-to on the upside down water glass), and the percentage should also fluctuate with the orders' complexity. When it's all said and done I will make my money regardless, because I know what I'm doing. Do think there should be tip jars everywhere? No, if all you did was punch a couple buttons on a register, don't put the jar out. If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out. Period. Don't blame us, we didn't make the rules... Couldn’t agree more with Polexia. What most people don’t realize or care to acknowledge is that most servers/bartenders make $2.13/hr, which is the absolute minimum that is required by law, at least in my state. In other parts of the world, the employers include the labor costs into your bill, paying for the person serving your food (really a much better system, imo). However here in the states, the customer is allowed to be the judge. That doesn’t mean we’re looking for handouts, as one of you put it. If you are just ordering $8 heinekens (glad I don’t live there), I see no problem in throwing a buck a beer or so, but if you walk in to my bar, weave your way through the crowd, and proceed to ask 17 questions about every drink you’ve seen on Sex in the City, and finally settle on a margarita (light salt, crushed ice, extra tequila, but not too strong, 3 limes <–actual order from tonight), I’m gonna expect a little more than the coins in your change purse. As a bartender, Im also required to listen to your problems, stop your drunk friend from ending up in jail, and in my spare time deliver a drink to the hot girl at the end of the bar who wants nothing to do with you, since she’s waiting on her boyfriend (also bartending) to get off work. You can call me uneducated all you want, but I don’t owe 50k in student loans, don’t work in a cubicle with Dilbert cartoons on the “walls”, don’t wake up a 5:00 am to sit in an hour of traffic, don’t have to kiss ass for that promotion you’re not getting, and I ENJOY what I do for a living. I do however believe if the service is shit, tip should reflect that (somebody PLEASE post a how-to on the upside down water glass), and the percentage should also fluctuate with the orders’ complexity. When it’s all said and done I will make my money regardless, because I know what I’m doing. Do think there should be tip jars everywhere? No, if all you did was punch a couple buttons on a register, don’t put the jar out. If you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to go out. Period. Don’t blame us, we didn’t make the rules…

]]> By: Polexia http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Polexia Sun, 10 May 2009 22:21:27 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-518 I think there are a few keys points that are not being addressed here. First: In most states waitstaff (i.e. servers and bartenders) do not make enough money hourly to even pay they're taxes. I end up owing over $1000 every year in taxes because I only make two bucks an hour. My tips are all I live on. Second: We are taxed on our sales, and the amount of tips we claim are factored into that. We are being targeted by the government right now because we are the only people who are on the honor system for reporting how much money we make each day. Third: A minimum gratuity of 15% is customary and appropriate. That's right folks, MINIMUM! Fourth: Most bars serve food as well as drinks. Bartenders are cleaning up after your mess just as frequently as servers are. They also have to deal with people knocking over drinks, breaking glasses and causing more of a ruckus. Fifth: If you can't afford the tip, don't go out. Please stay home. I think there are a few keys points that are not being addressed here.

First: In most states waitstaff (i.e. servers and bartenders) do not make enough money hourly to even pay they’re taxes. I end up owing over $1000 every year in taxes because I only make two bucks an hour. My tips are all I live on.

Second: We are taxed on our sales, and the amount of tips we claim are factored into that. We are being targeted by the government right now because we are the only people who are on the honor system for reporting how much money we make each day.

Third: A minimum gratuity of 15% is customary and appropriate. That’s right folks, MINIMUM!

Fourth: Most bars serve food as well as drinks. Bartenders are cleaning up after your mess just as frequently as servers are. They also have to deal with people knocking over drinks, breaking glasses and causing more of a ruckus.

Fifth: If you can’t afford the tip, don’t go out. Please stay home.

]]> By: Dan - Your Sash http://tremendousnews.com/2009/04/08/how-to-tip-a-bartender/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Dan - Your Sash Sun, 10 May 2009 21:59:28 +0000 http://tremendousnews.com/?p=601#comment-517 And what about places that automatically include gratuity in the bill already? Your thoughts on that? And what about places that automatically include gratuity in the bill already? Your thoughts on that?

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