Tipping. . . . .

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:24 pm

Usually, one tips the restaurant server, the door man, the car valet, barkeep, cabbie, newspaperboy, and the like.

Now I've always left a tip for the housekeeping maid who cleans our hotel room, even when it is just overnight stay. Like I did tody, for our stay last night)

Do you do the same? :-2

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:28 pm

I basically tip everyone and anyone.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:04 pm

cars;1321329 wrote: Usually, one tips the restaurant server, the door man, the car valet, barkeep, cabbie, newspaperboy, and the like.

Now I've always left a tip for the housekeeping maid who cleans our hotel room, even when it is just overnight stay. Like I did tody, for our stay last night)

Do you do the same? :-2

I tip a server if they have done a good job or anyone else for sure.

door man? car valet? They're not in my world.:yh_rotfl

Limey · Post by **Limey** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:21 pm

We're no where near as big on tipping in the UK as the US are. A service charge is usually added to any bill you might get. When I visit the states I always have to make sure to have several extra dollars on me for all those random tips throughout the day. :wah:

I'm happy to do it though.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:49 pm

I've worked in a hotel before, lol more like i helped my mom clean, and it was always super cool to get tips! Sometimes it was our dinner money! lol now i tip for everything too mainly cause i remember what it was like working in those places...

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:50 pm

I tip everyone, especially add a nice tip to those people that I see often like the postman and garbage men at holidays, food servers and hair styluses.

It's good for business and I appreciate all that they do for me.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:53 pm

Limey;1321333 wrote: We're no where near as big on tipping in the UK as the US are. A service charge is usually added to any bill you might get. When I visit the states I always have to make sure to have several extra dollars on me for all those random tips throughout the day. :wah:

I'm happy to do it though.

I hear ya Limey,

My rellys in Ireland are always yelling at me because I tip everyone in Ireland who waits on me. They say it's bad for them as they are then expected to tip also. So, I don't tip in Ireland unless I'm alone and my rellys can't see me.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:07 pm

I tip everyone that deserves it and in most cases that everyone who I receive service from. People work hard for minimum wage tips are their extra spending money.

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:15 pm

Kathy Ellen;1321337 wrote: I tip everyone, especially add a nice tip to those people that I see often like the postman and garbage men at holidays, food servers and hair styluses.

It's good for business and I appreciate all that they do for me.

Basically, that's the jist of this thread, we never see the hotel maid who cleans our room, because we leave & then it's cleaned. So it's being cleaned for the next person. I don't think/know if the hotel expects their housekeeping staff to get tips, as they expect their serving people to get tips. Therefore, are the housekeeping staff failrly compensated, anyone know?

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:18 pm

cars;1321344 wrote: Basically, that's the jist of this thread, we never see the hotel maid who cleans our room, because we leave & then it's cleaned. I don't think/know if the hotel expects their housekeeping staff to get tips, as they expect their serving people to get tips. Therefore, are the housekeeping staff failrly compensated, anyone know?

Yes, they leave special envelopes in the hotel rooms that I've been in ,stating that it was for maid services. I always tip the hotel services as it's expected.

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:28 pm

Kathy Ellen;1321345 wrote: Yes, they leave special envelopes in the hotel rooms that I've been in ,stating that it was for maid services. I always tip the hotel services as it's expected.

Actually, the only place I've seen them leave "tip envelopes", was in our room cabin, when we were on our curises.

In the hotels, I just take a sheet of paper from the hotel pads in the room, & write on it "for maid", usually drawing a smiley face on it!

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:35 pm

cars;1321347 wrote: Actually, the only place I've seen them leave "tip envelopes", was in our room cabin, when we were on our curises.

In the hotels, I just take a sheet of paper from the hotel pads in the room, & write on it "for maid", usually drawing a smiley face on it!

I do the same thing Cars if there's no envelope.

When I fly down to Siesta Key, I end up buying a beach chair and beach towels, small umbrella and other goodies. I can't take the stuff home, so I leave it for the service people with a thank you note.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:54 pm

Our different wages system in Australia ensures that every employee is paid properly for the work they do. Tips are therefore not necessary and are rare. You might round up a taxi fare or add something for service beyond what would normally be expected. Australians tend to be egalitarian. Tipping someone suggests the tipper is somehow superior to the tippee. This is however only if the tipper is another Aussie. If visiting foreigners want to give us all their money, that's fine.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:07 am

Yes, I tip for the maid-we always have the same sweet lady when we go to the beach. It is a nice feeling, she knows my husband and he feels comfortable when we make our little trek to the sea.

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:13 am

I just did not tip for maid service this past trip. There was an envelope placed next to the remote with a note that said 'please leave a tip for housekeeping'. Swear to god!:-2

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:36 am

flopstock;1321375 wrote: I just did not tip for maid service this past trip. There was an envelope placed next to the remote with a note that said 'please leave a tip for housekeeping'. Swear to god!:-2

Yes Flop, I agree, that would rub me the wrong way as well. So I would not not leave anything also!!!

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:44 pm

Tipping for anything in New Zealand or Australia is not the custom. The only people that tip are American Tourists that have not learned better. However, despite the fact that wages are supposedly good enough that tipping is not necessary, service is pretty poor by American standards of what we would call good service.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:28 pm

Lon;1321478 wrote: service is pretty poor by American standards of what we would call good service.

Really ??!!!! I mostly get excellent service both here and in the US, and occasionally less good service, in both.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:04 pm

AussiePam;1321479 wrote: Really ??!!!! I mostly get excellent service both here and in the US, and occasionally less good service, in both.

Sorry bout that Pam, but it's a fact. There is no comparison when you compare a Yank waiter or waitress that is really hustling to earn a tip. There is more to good service than just placing the food on the table, filling the water glass, clearing the empty plates, refiling wine glasses.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:16 pm

psh if you flirt with the customers tips sometimes will go up... in fact tipping is known as "to insure perfect service" i heard somewhere that tipping was done before you were served a while back... i dunno how truthful that is......

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:26 pm

Omni_Skittles;1321483 wrote: psh if you flirt with the customers tips sometimes will go up... in fact tipping is known as "to insure perfect service" i heard somewhere that tipping was done before you were served a while back... i dunno how truthful that is......

Tipping link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_(gratuity)

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:01 pm

Lon;1321482 wrote: Sorry bout that Pam, but it's a fact. There is no comparison when you compare a Yank waiter or waitress that is really hustling to earn a tip. There is more to good service than just placing the food on the table, filling the water glass, clearing the empty plates, refiling wine glasses.

... Sure they clean the empty plates... with alacrity!! Just a part of their technique in rushing everyone out as speedily as possible, so the next lot of diners can be raced in and force-fed and hurried out, so the next lot... the faster, the more tips. Not so in Europe, not so in Australia (I can't speak for New Zealand) where dining is a whole lot more than just gulping down as much as possible in the shortest time possible. Anyway, your experience - with no proof - says one thing. My experience -with no proof - says quite another. Stale mate :sneaky:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:03 pm

Minnesota is one of the few states that doesnt allow companies with employees that recieve tips to reduce the minimum wage. Some jerk off legislator wants to change this law because he heard of some employees making over $100,000 a year. Maybe someone somewhere has made that amount but its ludicrous to think thats possible for anyone not working in some elitist environment to come anywhere near that kind of wage in the hospitality industry.

Freaking legislators....they live in some unknown world Im very unfamiliar with.