I went to deaf club at guesthouse/resturant last Saturday. Of course I questioned my friend, his family own guesthouse/resturant where we meet every month. He gave me right that service charge and tipping are not the same thing. Charge service means is to add % for utiltiy used, foods, employee´s wage, and go on.... tip is total different... It´s up to us to tip or not...
Reba,
My other friends who went to America last summer for 3 weeks holiday. They said that the prices of resturant is almost same as here in Germany. The waitress is very friendly to them... later they want to pay the bill... the waitress turn into different person when they asked her to keep the change. My friends were like
and wonder what have they done anything wrong to upset her and thought $1 is good tip or what? They can´t stand waitress and waiter´s offence remark. They can´t stand to go resturant so they went to fast resturant, they are friendly to them... I told them that $1 is not enough to them because they expect 15% to 20% tip of meal cost, that´s where I learn from American forum... They were like WHAT..
because travel brochure didn´t say anything how many % waitress/waiter expect from customers. I´m not surprised after read Opal´s post because Europeans said the same thing.
I would never work as waitress for that $2.50 per hour... No thank! It make me stress to try soooo hard to get tips from customers...... It make me stress to think in my mind "hope to get better tips today"... then again on next day... No way... I prefer to enjoy what I am and friendly to customer as usual... little tip is great appreicate... and thank them... It sound "flattery" to me if I try be nice to customers for their tips...
I rather stay what I am instead of play flattery to get tips from them.