Tipping

SeanD said:
If there was a cheaper option on my way to work, Id be fine with that coffee. Coffee is coffee really.
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There's not a Rebel, 7-11, or Terribles convenience store (trying to remember local LAS convenience stores off the top of my head) on your way to work? :)
 
Beech90 said:
Great insight guys. What about hotels that want your debit/credit card and charge a fee, but it's released once you checkout...do you try to dispute it or not?
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Never ran into the issue using my card... But I wouldn't know for most work hotel transactions as they go on the company card.
 
MikeD said:
There's not a Rebel, 7-11, or Terribles convenience store (trying to remember local LAS convenience stores off the top of my head) on your way to work? :)
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I wish. I love Terribles coffee. There isnt anything on my side of the street. ;)
 
Bumblebee said:
then you load your own bags and open your own doors.
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JacetheAce was told this same thing, after his post on this topic 5 years ago :)

JaceTheAce said:
I NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER, under absolutely NO CIRCUMSTANCES tip the van driver when he/she is transporting me to and from the airport. It is a requirement to go to a hotel for my job and I don't believe in tipping them for this reason. We don't get reward points at the hotels anymore too - all the more reason to not tip them. The only time I'll tip a van driver is if they bring me to a special location from the hotel on my own personal business.
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I worked at an FBO for years and I honestly never expected a tip for driving the crew van and loading bags. It was mostly a nice break from the noise and exposure of the ramp. That said, $1 per crew member was perfectly adequate in my mind. I always thought the lav service warranted a tip the most.

Now that I'm the slob getting driven to and from the airport, I do $1 per leg since I suspect that van driver makes more money than me anyway. Also, I don't tip if they blast their preferred music, drive like a teenage boy, or do the AC on max 100% of the time. Tipping is for service, not just showing up.
 
Cal Goat said:
I worked at an FBO for years and I honestly never expected a tip for driving the crew van and loading bags. It was mostly a nice break from the noise and exposure of the ramp. That said, $1 per crew member was perfectly adequate in my mind. I always thought the lav service warranted a tip the most.

Now that I'm the slob getting driven to and from the airport, I do $1 per leg since I suspect that van driver makes more money than me anyway. Also, I don't tip if they blast their preferred music, drive like a teenage boy, or do the AC on max 100% of the time. Tipping is for service, not just showing up.
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Pretty much this. I was once tipped a c-note for staying late and doing an heroic lav dump as a line guy; now, I will tip the van drivers for doing a good job (e.g. schlepping my bags and not killing me) or for stuff that's out of profile (hey, can you run me to the pizza place at 2330, since the hotel has stopped serving food).

Incidentally, I feel like Santa could make "naughty and nice" judgements from this thread.
 
"A tip is the amount that one American is willing to pay to induce another American to acknowledge inferiority."

From "The Itching Palm," by William R. Scott
 
Mark815 said:
Restaurants are 15-20% or more based on service. Here's a question though, how about tipping on drinks with dinner? If you go out and have a few beers, do you tip on the total cost of the bill or just the food? 2 beers could easily cost more than a meal at some places, so what do you do then?
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I was in the food service industry for a decade as a waiter and bartender at various places. Absolutely tip on the drinks, always, especially if they're included with the food bill. You shouldn't subtract the drink costs from the meal price and tip that lower amount. While we're on the subject, if you run up a $100 bill and have an $80 gift card, don't tip on the remaining balance of $20, tip on the $100. The server still did their part serving you a $100 worth of service.
 
mikecweb said:
Hotel free breakfast but with a waiter...
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Depends, but I usually tip the amount of the bill. I get free breakfast being diamond at Hilton so if I stay at mainline Hilton hotels, or HGI's, the breakfast is included in the restaurant. I always leave a couple bucks (Usually the bill is $10-$15 depending on hotel). You're still getting service.

There were a couple time where out of habit I left two bucks on the table and left, and then realized that I sat myself, ordered from the buffet, and had gotten my own food and drink.
 
MikeD said:
Worse, what does it say about you for paying $2.11 (or more) for a cup of flipping coffee?

:)
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Sidebar alert!

Good coffee (which can't be had at Starbucks, Peets, Costa, etc., and almost certainly won't be found at Your Local Coffee Shop) costs more than $2.10 per cup to source, purchase, roast and extract in a fashion that will result in "Good coffee".

If I go to, say, my kitchen (I roast my own coffee most of the time, have a commercial grinder, espresso machine, PID-controlled kettle, 3x v60 setup, etc), my cup of coffee will cost me somewhere around $1-$2, and I have no problem paying that. Most people who try my coffee are amazed ... for a reason: Coffee tastes amazing, if you just don't screw it up.
It's not even that hard not to screw it up! Source good coffee, find the best lots? That's kinda hard ... but there are people who do it for the industry. Purchase those lots, or purchase from someone who purchases those lots? Easy peasy! Roast coffee? It can take some time to learn how to do it, but even in the hands of a rank amateur, good results can be had. Use the coffee within two weeks, grind it within five minutes of extraction ... have a consistent grind setting, apply water at 198-204°F for an amount of time that corresponds to the grind setting, roast level and bean density, then remove the ground coffee... and bam, you're done. A great cup of coffee.

Now, if I go to Verve, Chromatic, Stumptown, Zoka, Sightglass, Bluebird, Bird Rock, Klatch, Grumpy, Counter Culture or even Intelligentsia, or a shop that does a good job with their coffee, I will pay $3-$6 for a 12oz cup, and it will generally be worth every penny to me... usually on par with my own coffee, sometimes a bit better, sometimes a bit worse.

So $2.11 for a cup of flipping coffee? Sounds like a deal, to me!

Now, for those of you who just use coffee as a caffeine delivery device... why not just get a vial of food-grade caffeine? :p Life's too short for bad coffee!

-Fox
 
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