Trip Tips: Just another WordPress weblog

Choose a Topic:

Sat
29
Dec '07

Restaurant Tipping Tips

We have listed some tipping guidelines researched from a restaurateur co-owner of the Four Seasons.


  • Rest room attendant fifty cents.
  • Hatcheck- Fifty cents to $1 per couple.
  • Bartender: One dollar minimum or 15% of check.
  • Waiter Fifteen percent of the bill (not including tax).
  • Doorman (to get taxi: Fifty cents normally. One dollar in bad weather or rush hour.
  • Sommelier Ten percent of the wine selection or 5% if the wine is expensive. Two dollars or $3 is a good tip.
  • Headwaiter who seats diners: Five dollars or $10 or more at intervals for regular patrons. He should be tipped in cash.
  • Other staff at a restaurant that is used regularly should be tipped once or twice a year. - Hosts, switchboard operators (where the restaurant provides telephone service).
  • Captain: Five percent. Note: If diner writes tip on the check, the waiter gets it all, unless the diner specifies how it is to be split. (Example: Waiter, $5; captain, $2.)



  • Related Results from Google Blogsearch:
    While working in a restaurant, how do you determine if your ... Going off the featured question on Yahoo! homepage regarding the customers point of view on tipping between 15 and 20%. This is your chance servers!! Perhaps I worded this wrong….what do customers do, that don't make the tip worth the ...
    Learn to Play Craps - Tips and Strategies: Dealer Tokes Craps dealers typically share tips instead of keeping what they get. This makes your job of tipping a bit trickier. Ideally, you want to maximize tips for good dealers and minimize tips for bad ones. In terms of craps dealers, ...
    While I wait for Whomageddon to finish airing so I can download ... I'm just curious about the art of tipping; I'm well-versed in the art of restaurant tipping (having grown up with "home cooking" being various Kansas City restaurants), but I'm always unsure when it comes to those other kinds of tips ...
    How-To: Tip Accordingly If he recommends a great restaurant, tip him accordingly. You can spend $200 on a meal; why not on him? Be sure to carry correct change and avoid an awkward Larry David situation. Assorted Tips (Get It?) -Tip your garbage, mail, ...
    Shameful pay by Liberty International for its Covent Garden ... We think we've found Britain's tightest restaurant chain. Our campaign with the union Unite has exposed a string of scrooge firms that pay staff less than the minimum wage and then use tips left by customers to bring the salaries up to ...
    If you can afford to Eat, you can afford to TIP For those that are out of the loop, the old standard for tipping in Canada was 10% however due to the high cost of living in most major cities here in Canada and especially Calgary. The new standard of tipping is 15%. ...
    Learn to Play Craps - Tips and Strategies: Dealer Tokes Dealers typically work for minimum wage (or close to it) plus tips. I compare them to restaurant servers because they provide a service and they rely on tips for their livelihood. The service that dealers provide includes properly ...
    Tipping Skimpers on the Rise and in the News It would make sense that restaurant servers' tips have declined with a weak economy causing more people to forgo eating out, but they are also reporting a decrease in the amount of tips received from... [[ This is a content summary only ...
    Tipping This was a big deal as it was our only sit down restaurant meal (I'd have the fish and chips, now I have the sirloin tips). My hubby's parents used to take him and the other brothers there on no-cook Saturdays (the hubby's Mom doesn't ...
    3 tips for traveling in Guangzhou,China Tipping frequently occurs when you are in a tour group, superior hotel, restaurant, train station and airport or somewhere else you can enjoy service. To be continued.Canton Fair. If you are going to tip, tip in cash (don”t add it to ...

    Leave a Reply