I know plenty of servers who make more than 10%. As I said before, I averaged 15%-18% daily in tips from my total sales. So did most of my coworkers. Asking someone to tip that is asking for someone to tip average. Not an unfair request if you ask me. You obviously do not know good servers. They should find another job if they cannot average more than 10% tips.
I was unaware a bellhop made the same hourly rate a server did. This doesn't negate my other points. Just the one on the bellhop making more an hour if this is true. The bellhop comes into contact with more people with more chances to receive tips. They have less time to make an impression, sure, but they don't spend 30min to 2 hrs waiting on your party and surly are not expected to memorize a menu nor wine list.
You obviously do not see how giving the same tip on a $30 check as a $100 screws over server. Nor do you seem to care. Hopefully you stick to low end places where if you give a few bucks it's still a decent tip. You have never said what YOUR standard is! Is it 2 bucks for crappy service? 5 for good? 8 for great? Even at that if you bill is over $30/$40 your tip is poor to average. Maybe if you gave example of how you tip people would lay off you. You are lucky that not everyone feels the same way about tipping or every decent server would go find another job and leave your dining experience to the people who "can't read there own writing".
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I was unaware a bellhop made the same hourly rate a server did. This doesn't negate my other points. Just the one on the bellhop making more an hour if this is true. The bellhop comes into contact with more people with more chances to receive tips. They have less time to make an impression, sure, but they don't spend 30min to 2 hrs waiting on your party and surly are not expected to memorize a menu nor wine list.
You obviously do not see how giving the same tip on a $30 check as a $100 screws over server. Nor do you seem to care. Hopefully you stick to low end places where if you give a few bucks it's still a decent tip. You have never said what YOUR standard is! Is it 2 bucks for crappy service? 5 for good? 8 for great? Even at that if you bill is over $30/$40 your tip is poor to average. Maybe if you gave example of how you tip people would lay off you. You are lucky that not everyone feels the same way about tipping or every decent server would go find another job and leave your dining experience to the people who "can't read there own writing".