to tip or not to tip that is the question

How much do I tip my favorite coffee room posters?

I tried to tip my cooking stuff, waiters, cleaning service, landscaper, butler, dog walker, hairdresser, delivery service, repair-person, laundromat. My wife refused the tips, but the kids took some.

Gadolhadorah,

Amen

Always,

👍

@yaakov. My kids are not government employees..

I am not “generous”, I am just writing expenses off 🙂

on a serious note:
1) Timing of tips – new year sounds better than a week before. This year, we did a couple of tips near Thanksgiving. Not sure if they expect another one

2) for those who can, consider increasing ordering more deliveries from contractors, such as instacart, and tip them. These are often people who had jobs that suffered in pandemic. So, both tips and delivery cost would count as tzedokah, I think.

perhaps keep in mind the issue of giving tips too close to a goyashe holyday

common: @does that apply to the Rebbes and Teachers

changing gears somewhat: It seems that Congress will not pass blanket protection to businesses, then you might be able to sue your Rebbes in secular courts if the following happened (not saying it happened to everyone, but all happened somewhere):

1) they were not careful enough (for example, going to unmasked minyanim), or were not promptly reporting cases to parents,

2) you discovered how bad teaching is when seeing teacher on zoom

3) that your child learned better and got better midos out of school

4) your child was able to learn at home without medication that school insisted on

5) your school always insisted that their school is better than online schools, then continued charging full tuition for online/phone classes

@common: zero to do with tipping,

You are right. The association is tipping is gratitude. Gratitude is recognition of positive. We need also to recognize the negative… Also, withholding customary tips (restaurants) is considered a negative recognition. Also, I am all for tipping good teachers. And paying them more – from savings of not tipping and paying bad teachers. Suing is simply restoring falsely claimed payment to the parents – who can now afford tipping good teachers.

Nice? Can I stay in your topic?

It is illegal for a government employee, such as the mailman or garbage man to accept a tip.

Many restaurants don’t even offer the 15% option tip option any longer on the credit card receipts and show 18%, 20% or 25%. I typically leave at least 20% but not everyone can afford that option.

What really annoys me is the “fair wage” surcharge being automatically added to bills to reflect higher “minimum wage” requirements or in some jurisdictions, a requirement to pay the standard minimum wage rather than relying solely on tip income for wait staff. Others are adding a surcharge for those who work in the kitchen who might not be directly “tipped” or where tips are not pooled among all the Staff.

Why are labor costs treated differently from rent, food and beverage, utilities, insurance and other costs which have ALL increased substantially in recent years but there are no special surcharges for those items. A surcharge might make sense if there is an expectation that the costs (e.g. fuel costs) might go down and the surcharge would then be eliminated. Labor costs are NOT going down. Restaurants should simply update their menu prices periodically to reflect their total costs. With computerized printing, it takes literally a few minutes to print out new menus every few months and slide them into the menu binder rather than alienating customers with these “surcharges” in addition to tips.

Haha I tip, I’m just saying no matter what you do the people with low end jobs are facing more pressure due to corporate greed.

CS: The legal prohibition against tipping a government employee also applies to a government subcontractor who is doing government-funded work for the public.

> try doing that these days and you risk having the tip aka the bowl of soup thrown at your face.

Suddenly you are against the Gemora, sad …

Cs, where is your derech eretz, you don’t need to tell that, just leave a big chunk of your steak there.

> he was no longer welcome there in spite of his protest that he was merely following the gemera.

well, your friend should not go to treifa places. If they do not follow gemora in this, what other halochos they might disregard !?

In a restaurant, one should always tip, unless the servers are paid a regular wage, and not a tip-earner wage, or there were serious issues with the service.

I once had an instance where there was a serious issue with the service, and I didn’t want to leave a tip. I spoke with the manager, and explained what the issue was, and how I felt about it. He agreed with me that in this case, I should NOT tip, and there were no hard feelings between me and him. I probably can’t say the same for the server, there’s no way he was happy – I believe he ended up getting fired for what happened.

the best way to do hakoras hatov is to tip.
how does one tip Biden for sending tons and tons and tons of ammunitions to Israel?

> it was a glatt place,

how is it a glatt place if the service is not smooth? And it is relative – maybe it is not customers who are cheap, but the food that is expensive.

> violate the Board of Health rule

you got me here. Maybe do it under the table?