Why do you or don't you tip?
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Quote: SOOPOOWhen did this happen??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
right after I didn't get invited ;-) sorry axel had to say it 1 more time.
Quote: RSFavorite thing I ever heard from tipping, within earshot of waitress, practically shouting: “Three f***ing dollars for two drinks?! No!!! F*** that bull***!!! Go get one dollar back from the waitress. You tipped way too much!!!”
I bet that came from the same person who yelled at me for tipping a table game person $1 for getting me a $1 chip out of their rack for my collection.
I just assumed he was talking about his prison wife. ;)Quote: SOOPOOWhen did this happen??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
Quote: GialmereI'm glad this thread came up since I've been meaning to ask you guys about tipping a casino cocktail waitress. I'd read that, while tipping $1 a drink was still acceptable, $2 a drink is now considered appropriate due to both inflation and the fact that the server must pay a tax on every drink regardless of whether she gets tipped or not.
I am still a $1 tipper.
Quote: onenickelmiracleWhat kind of tipping on sports bets? I personally am not seeing the need to tip on them.
Pretty much never.
I’ve only tipped ticket writers maybe twice before. And that’s for basically good service, happy, etc. etc.
Quote: RS
I’ve only tipped ticket writers maybe twice before
Wow, you tipped on both of your wins?
Do you realise that most casinos out in the pit pools their tips. Live poker is usually the exceptions, they keep their own.
Here’s a tip, whenever their is a long wait at valet, tip the attendant $10-$20 and your car is the next one up. Or wait 30 minutes. That was during show breaks when I lived in Vegas when valet parking was free. I always had bad timing leaving the poker room at the Bellatio, freaking O show was always breaking .
I have more respect for panhandlers then dealers continually hinting for tips. It's disgusting.
Quote: AxelWolfI do not think you should tip 20% on alcohol. What if you are buying some already overpriced top shelf crap?
FYI 20% is too much in the first place.
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Normally, once every few weeks or so, I order a deep dish pizza with extra cheeses, sauce and 5 topings. For the longest time it cost $16.10. Over night it went up to just under $20. I used to give them the $20 and be done with it. I'm not going for it, hopefully the drivers will complain their tips are dismal and they will lower the price back down.
I just double the first number of the total. Sometimes that comes out to less than 20% but I include tax and alcohol.
About raising prices, Great Clips raised the price of a haircut from $14 to $16. I still pay with a $20 bill, I imagine many do the same. I’d be super pissed if I worked there.
Quote: VegasriderWould you prefer paying 20-25% higher prices for your meal and don't have to worry about tipping?
Yes, but that's not going to happen. Just go to a country like Italy where it is not customary to tip. Prices are in line. The US is an anomaly when it comes to tipping and the business owners are taking full advantage. I'm done falling for the sympathy excuses.
I know lots of bartenders in town that make over $100k and are only taxed on about $35k of it. I am very jealous.
Quote: MaxPenYes, but that's not going to happen. Just go to a country like Italy where it is not customary to tip. Prices are in line. The US is an anomaly when it comes to tipping and the business owners are taking full advantage. I'm done falling for the sympathy excuses.
You know exactly what would happen, though. A $100 meal and $20 tip would turn into a $125 meal and an effective $10 “tip” (pay raise) for the waiter. So now your meal costs $5 more, waiter is getting paid $10 less, and the owner is getting an extra $15.
And one thing I learned from reddit is that customer service in America is way better than much of Europe, according to Europeans.
Not to mention, restaurants are still required to make sure their employees make minimum wage, even if they don’t get enough tips. So even if tipping went completely out the door for one waiter, he would still be getting his $8.25/hr, or whatever minimum wage is.
I like the tipping culture in general because it allows us to tip what we think is a fair amount to tip. The part I don’t like is when people are like “minimum is 20%, no matter what. Tip more for great service”. Nahhhhhh. I’ll usually set a base amount around 15%, which is for what I say is acceptable service. If the service is poor then it goes down. If it’s good or great then it goes up. Also take into account the actual cost of the meal. And if you get truly bad service, don’t tip at all.
Quote: RSYou know exactly what would happen, though. A $100 meal and $20 tip would turn into a $125 meal and an effective $10 “tip” (pay raise) for the waiter. So now your meal costs $5 more, waiter is getting paid $10 less, and the owner is getting an extra $15.
And one thing I learned from reddit is that customer service in America is way better than much of Europe, according to Europeans.
Not to mention, restaurants are still required to make sure their employees make minimum wage, even if they don’t get tips. So even if tipping went completely out the door, waiters and others are still getting their $8.25/hr, or whatever minimum wage is.
That's not the case in many states.
Quote: billryanThat's not the case in many states.
I'm confused. Please clarify.
What is not the case in many states?
Are you saying that in many states restaurants are not required to make sure their employees make minimum wage?
Quote: FleaswatterI'm confused. Please clarify.
What is not the case in many states?
Are you saying that in many states restaurants are not required to make sure their employees make minimum wage?
Servers make less than the federal minimum wage, they are compensated by tips.
Quote: VegasriderServers make less than the federal minimum wage, they are compensated by tips.
But, again, if they don’t make minimum wage, then the restaurant needs to pay them enough to make up for the minimum wage.
I did stiff a waitress at a restaurant a few months ago since the food took forever to come out and she was never to be seen after she brought it. I went to the cashier and told her what I ordered and paid her directly.
Quote: GWAEright after I didn't get invited ;-) sorry axel had to say it 1 more time.
I say we annul the wedding until all of you show up to the wedding next time.
ALSO a new dress code: NO KHAKIS
Quote: djatcI say we annul the wedding until all of you show up to the wedding next time.
ALSO a new dress code: NO KHAKIS
Wait what. No khakis. Khakis are the new sweat pants.
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ALSO a new dress code: NO KHAKIS
I say the next wedding everybody wears parachute pants.
Quote: DRichI say the next wedding everybody wears parachute pants.
Just when I finally bought some pants and leather shoes.😎 Figures.
Vitalvegas seems to think 2% or about $22,000 would have been appropriate.
I've gone by the suggestion that an appropriate tip on a $20,000 royal is $100. Several well known video poker writers suggested this amount.
(I have to admit that on my three $100,000 royals I tipped $300 each time. Okay, I'm cheap.)
$100 on $20,000 is 0.5% and using that as a guide I'd say an appropriate tip on $1.1-million is $5,500. Round it down to $5000.
Quote: AlanMendelsonThe vitalvegas.com website is reporting that the recent winner of a $1.1-million table game progressive jackpot at the Golden Nugget tipped only $200. That's two-hundred dollars.
Vitalvegas seems to think 2% or about $22,000 would have been appropriate.
I've gone by the suggestion that an appropriate tip on a $20,000 royal is $100. Several well known video poker writers suggested this amount.
(I have to admit that on my three $100,000 royals I tipped $300 each time. Okay, I'm cheap.)
$100 on $20,000 is 0.5% and using that as a guide I'd say an appropriate tip on $1.1-million is $5,500. Round it down to $5000.
I frankly am not sure what I’d tip. I know I’d ‘tip’ Uncle Sam and NYS over $300k! I realize what I’d consider reasonable (the $200 seems reasonable for a dealer just doing his job) would get the kind of reaction that you had, AM. If it is a place I frequent frequently (I enjoyed using those words consecutively) I would probably go up to $1,000. If I was an out of towner I might do way less. No way more than $1k.
Yeah. Tips are the least painful.
Perhaps a sign of the times, but a few dozen donuts or getting a stack of pizzas delivered is often helpful enough.
As far as tipping at the tables, once I start winning and am ahead I change one of my black chips to red and green and start with a single five dollar red chip on the side of my bet for the dealer. Eventually, as I get more ahead, I'll double that to ten dollars on the side, twenty five on the side, fifty on the side, even a black chip on the side, if I am really clocking them for a lot I will put as much as 250 as a side bet for the dealer. I almost never just hand the dealer anything, I put the tip into action and if I win, the dealer wins. And I don't put the tip out there on every hand, not whatsoever, just some hands. For example on a run, I might win 5 or 6 hands in a row before I start placing the side bets, but in such a situation if I'm already at several thousand a hand, I might jump straight to placing fifty on the side for the dealer on the next hand.
Yes, when I win one hand with 5 on there for the dealer, and then I put 10 for the dealer on the side for the next bet I am aware as the cards are dealt that if I lose that second hand then that's $15. gone that edges away further at the incoming winnings, and in that situation of win one lose one the $15. gone increases the % gone between the two hands, but I don't look at it that way. If my goal is X dollars I don't wind up with X minus whatever I tipped out in front of me, at worst it just takes a tiny bit of extra time to reach that goal due to having tipped out along the way. And if I end up to the felt with nothing in front of me I won't end up with the sum of what I tipped out if I had not tipped out at the end, I will end up still with zero.
Funny but I recently had a session where EVERY TIME over the course of a few shoes whenever I put a side bet for the dealer I won that hand. Without exception. The dealer, pit boss and I were laughing about it.
And at the end of the session when I ask the pit boss what has down for me as average bet, if the number seems a little low to me, I will toss out a higher figure and almost every pit boss I deal with will go along with that and many will comment about how "you take care of my dealers, I take care of you." I did have one pit boss I didn't know say something along the lines of "So what, that doesn't help me" but that pit boss was the exception. So, whatever else tipping might get you, at table games, it can get you a higher rated average.
In the old days there used to be the "happy handshake" where I would fold a 100 bill into my hand and shake the pit boss' hand, but haven't tried that at all since I resumed play a few years ago.
Cocktail waitress / server, I give usually 5. per drink and I don't even drink so it's always something nonalcoholic. If the server has set up something special, more than one drink, I will tip 10.
In the VIP rooms I tip a few dollars or 5. each time I am served anything - snacks or drink. On the way out on checkout I will usually hand every attendant in VIP 10 or 20 if I have had a good trip, which is pretty much every time lately. Sometimes mid trip I will hand every attendant in VIP 10 too.
As far as casino hosts, I don't hand them cash. I give them gifts after winning trips. My hosts tell me about some of their clients who are extremely wealthy (one host I have claims that a number of his clients are billionaires), and these guys, for their hosts, do everything from put them up in their getaway vacation residences, to fly them in private jets all over the country or even world for social events the players are holding. Don't ever feel sorry for some of these highest end top hosts - some are living a higher rolling lifestyle than many wealthy players.
I was thinking the same thing. I’d buy one but, on Chrono24, that watch is $115k and up. At a Rolex store it would probably be $150k…if you could find oneQuote: MDawgMaybe, but I still don't have that platinum Daytona that you wisely suggested I buy a year or so ago. It is going to cost me almost 3X more if I pull the trigger on it now.
I got my rose gold day-date about three years ago which turned out to be perfect timing. The price has gone up 60% since.
Even when I bought mine there was very low inventory. But supply is insanely low right now, probably due to low production during covid. Interestingly enough, prices listed on the Rolex site are still “book retail”, though the actual price is at least 50% higher than that
Say what you will about Rolex, but I don’t think it can be beat in terms of value retention/appreciation
Be aware of one thing though. With chrono24 when you pay with credit card, the processing is done overseas (in Germany) and your credit card company will usually tack on an International Transaction Fee of 3%.
So I ended up buying a few different watches instead, spending over 100K, and they have increased in value too, but not as much as that Platina. You were on the level of a financial advisor with your advice there. Bravo!
He owns a dozen Ferraris and has loads of cash. Why can’t he buy the elusive $2.2-million LaFerrari Aperta?
Weird I would rather tip a dealer than some random waitress or staff.Quote: 1BBI tip everyone but dealers because I don't feel they deserve it. I'm only speaking of blackjack as that is all I play.
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I'd like to know why some people only tip if they've won. Did you not get the service when you lost?
I paid with a credit card and there was no extra fee. Another great thing about Chrono24 is its 14 day return policy…if you have any doubt of the watch’s authenticity just take it to a Rolex store during that period. I had no reason to doubt since mine came from a well established, highly referenced dealer on chrono24. The watch was about 30% cheaper than buying from a Rolex store, which is a material savings on that amount, even for the Rich and Famous 😆Quote: MDawg
Be aware of one thing though. With chrono24 when you pay with credit card, the processing is done overseas (in Germany) and your credit card company will usually tack on an International Transaction Fee of 3%.
I looked online and others have complained of the same.
https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/chrono24-and-credit-card-transaction-fee-awareness.5234304/
Since this thread is about tips, I suppose we could view it as an unwanted and unwelcome mandatory tip in the form of a bank surcharge.
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Since this thread is about tips, I suppose we could view it as an unwanted and unwelcome mandatory tip in the form of a bank surcharge.
I would call it extortion or graft; tips are more voluntary.
Still obliquely on topic.
But what about 30-years-ago me? I used to think that when you hit a $20,000 jackpot, they sometimes take your photo and maybe put it up on a wall, and you walk out of the casino with $20,000. Or a check for $20,000. I didn't know it was customary to tip someone for what I thought was their job. Had I hit a jackpot, I suppose my glee would have been met with dirty looks, and I wouldn't have known why until years later?
What if one's significant other isn't aware of the tipping custom, and is horrified at witnessing a $200 or $500 tip? Have relationships or marriages been severely damaged because of tipping?
Quote: smoothgrhSo now that I read these gambling websites, I know that it's customary to tip the staff upon receiving jackpot winnings.
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But what about 30-years-ago me? I used to think that when you hit a $20,000 jackpot, they sometimes take your photo and maybe put it up on a wall, and you walk out of the casino with $20,000. Or a check for $20,000. I didn't know it was customary to tip someone for what I thought was their job. Had I hit a jackpot, I suppose my glee would have been met with dirty looks, and I wouldn't have known why until years later?
What if one's significant other isn't aware of the tipping custom, and is horrified at witnessing a $200 or $500 tip? Have relationships or marriages been severely damaged because of tipping?
I don't know about tipping specifically, but I know many relationships that have been damaged by worrying too much about what the other person is doing with his/her money, so that's probably the underlying problem and not so much the tipping.
Quote: Mission146Quote: smoothgrhSo now that I read these gambling websites, I know that it's customary to tip the staff upon receiving jackpot winnings.
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But what about 30-years-ago me? I used to think that when you hit a $20,000 jackpot, they sometimes take your photo and maybe put it up on a wall, and you walk out of the casino with $20,000. Or a check for $20,000. I didn't know it was customary to tip someone for what I thought was their job. Had I hit a jackpot, I suppose my glee would have been met with dirty looks, and I wouldn't have known why until years later?
What if one's significant other isn't aware of the tipping custom, and is horrified at witnessing a $200 or $500 tip? Have relationships or marriages been severely damaged because of tipping?
I don't know about tipping specifically, but I know many relationships that have been damaged by worrying too much about what the other person is doing with his/her money, so that's probably the underlying problem and not so much the tipping.link to original post
Ya know, I'm a decent tipper, and I have no problem in most situations. But tipping on a big win, especially a slot win, galls me. I lose $5000, nobody does anything. I win $5000, and now I'm an ATM?
And I'm the guy who is $10/night for the maid, 30% in restaurants, etc. Dealers are $5/hr on average, win or lose. I just don't get how a big win means I have to pay.
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Ya know, I'm a decent tipper, and I have no problem in most situations. But tipping on a big win, especially a slot win, galls me. I lose $5000, nobody does anything. I win $5000, and now I'm an ATM?
And I'm the guy who is $10/night for the maid, 30% in restaurants, etc. Dealers are $5/hr on average, win or lose. I just don't get how a big win means I have to pay.
Yeah, I think maybe the hand payers did more to create the tipping culture than the customers did, but maybe not. I wonder if the first tip on a hand pay was offered (and the employee didn't even know if he/she could accept) or if it was asked for. I should try to find out.https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/off-topic/gripes/11182-pet-peeves/120/#post815219
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I don't know about tipping specifically, but I know many relationships that have been damaged by worrying too much about what the other person is doing with his/her money, so that's probably the underlying problem and not so much the tipping.
Do married people actually have his and her money that is separate? In my household there is one small pile of money that belongs to whomever spends it first.
Quote: Mission146Sometimes. My fiancee has her money and I have mine, anyway, then we have money that is ours.
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I understand it for non married people.
