My friend Greg and I were eating at a restaurant the other day when he started complaining about the amount I tipped our server. He thought that it was excessive tipping and accused me of ruining service for the rest of us who would later come into contact with that server. He said it reinforced bad service. I wasn't always excessively tipping servers at restaurants. It was quite the opposite in fact. My wife has changed the way that I tip servers at restaurants. I'll say right up front that I've never worked in the foodservice industry. I … [Read more...] about Tipping Tips – Your Excessive Tipping Causes Poor Service
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Who Should Get A Christmas Tip? Your Mailman? Holiday Tipping Guide
Every year I write an article about how I am not going to tip my mail carrier for the holidays. I'm not a fan of tipping my mailman, garbage man, teachers, or a long list of other folks. I typically take a lot of heat in the comment section for my anti-Christmas holiday tipping philosophy. There are several reasons that I refrain from tipping certain people in my life like my mailman. But, there are those that I go out of my way to give a tip to such as my housekeeper, my barber, and my guitar instructor. I'm not going to tip my … [Read more...] about Who Should Get A Christmas Tip? Your Mailman? Holiday Tipping Guide
What Will Switching to Card Reading Do to Your Tips
If you're the owner of a small business that employs people who work for tips, your choice of payment system is holding their livelihood in the palm of your hand. A lot of considerate bar owners, restaurant owners, and more will think twice before they institute any changes that could adversely affect the people who work for them. This is both kindness and practicality. If you can't get the people working for you a decent living wage then they're going to leave, you're going to have high turnover, and everything that you wanted or worked for … [Read more...] about What Will Switching to Card Reading Do to Your Tips