Tipping Bartenders

[KITNfury]

What are your thoughts?

They twist off a cap of beer and hand it to you, worth a buck or two?

Do you think you get better service if you tip well?

Personally I haven't found that tipping well, or under tipping does anything for my service, but I usually still give a dollar per drink or thereabouts. I've started to rethink tipping a dollar if I get cheap swill in a bottle. $1 for twisting off a top is prolly too much. Maybe $1 every other beer.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

If you're drinking liquor, tipping well generally helps get stronger pours.

['taterblast]

usually:

at least a dollar, or ~%20 if buying an "expensive" drink or a round of drinks

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

I tip every first drink so I wont have to wait as long for a second. for drinks...

every third beer bottle
every other draft beer
every mixed drink

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

I tip every first drink so I wont have to wait as long for a second. for drinks...

every third beer bottle
every other draft beer
every mixed drink

I think this is a very reasonable approach to it.

[420seriouscat69]

Shots at Stevesie. Kick his ass, man!

[KITNfury]

I tip every first drink so I wont have to wait as long for a second. for drinks...

every third beer bottle
every other draft beer
every mixed drink

IME, I've never ever noticed a difference in waiting for my next drink regardless if I tip right away or not.

[star seed 7]

Stevesie60 convinced me that since people don't tip coffee people, you shouldn't tip bartenders. So yeah, I don't tip.

[KITNfury]

Stevesie60 convinced me that since people don't tip coffee people, you shouldn't tip bartenders. So yeah, I don't tip.

It really makes you think, right? I mean, anyone who has ever watched Reservoir Dogs has to reconsider tipping someone just because their hourly wage blows and it's some kind of societal norm. Like, earn that tip.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

I tip every first drink so I wont have to wait as long for a second. for drinks...

every third beer bottle
every other draft beer
every mixed drink

IME, I've never ever noticed a difference in waiting for my next drink regardless if I tip right away or not.

IME, ive noticed the exact opposite. I tip while theyre looking at me so they know I 'preciate them.

FTR, I tip stevesie every time because buds! 

[420seriouscat69]

20% on every bill or a dollar per drink with cash. If you can't do that, sit the eff at home.

[KITNfury]

20% on every bill or a dollar per drink with cash. If you can't do that, sit the eff at home.

I'm not anti-tip, but explain why you should do that.

[cfbandyman]

I tip every first drink so I wont have to wait as long for a second. for drinks...

every third beer bottle
every other draft beer
every mixed drink

I think this is a very reasonable approach to it.

Weirdly enough I find myself doing that almost exact model without trying. Agreed on the reasonableness of this. 

[420seriouscat69]

20% on every bill or a dollar per drink with cash. If you can't do that, sit the eff at home.

I'm not anti-tip, but explain why you should do that.

I think if you've worked in the industry it just feels natural. I guess I feel guilty, cheap, douche baggish if I didn't. I also like helping out younger ppl, cause I've been where they are and they have to take and deal with a lot of crap. Ppl are unappreciative assholes and like to walk all over servers.

[420seriouscat69]

That's just my opinion tho.

[KITNfury]

20% on every bill or a dollar per drink with cash. If you can't do that, sit the eff at home.

I'm not anti-tip, but explain why you should do that.

I think if you've worked in the industry it just feels natural. I guess I feel guilty, cheap, douche baggish if I didn't. I also like helping out younger ppl, cause I've been where they are and they have to take and deal with a lot of crap. Ppl are unappreciative assholes and like to walk all over servers.

Well, I'm courteous to all servers, however I'm just starting to rethink my tipping status quo. For instance, if I walk past a beggar, I do not give 2 shits, he ain't getting any money. If I walk past some homeless dude trying to play some drums on an empty bucket or something, he'll prolly get a few bucks.

Some schmo walks half assedly to the beer cooler, pulls out a beer and hands it to me and I owe him a buck on top of the beer? Not sure any more. If he does a cartwheel or some Cocktails and Dreams crap, he's gonna get a nice tip.

[Mrs. Gooch]

I tip more when the other people in my party are being loud a-holes.

[KITNfury]

I tip more when the other people in my party are being loud a-holes.

Valid reason to tip well.

[TownieCat]

$1 per drink or 25% of the tab. You must visit bars that aren't very busy if you've never noticed a difference. I tend to open tabs a lot (and occassionally leave them open over night  )

Same rules apply to waiters/waitresses.

[michigancat]

holy crap, some of you people don't tip for every drink?

[Willesgirl]

For quick service, I recommend a low-cut shirt and some cleavage. (This sometimes also negates the need to tip with your own money.)

I tip every round, unless really drunk. And then I have no idea whether I tipped, but I generally wind up with zero dollars left when I get home.

[TownieCat]

For quick service, I recommend a low-cut shirt and some cleavage. (This sometimes also negates the need to tip with your own money.)

I tip every round, unless really drunk. And then I have no idea whether I tipped, but I generally wind up with zero dollars left when I get home.

If you pay for any drinks with with this approach then you are doing it wrong.

[Dugout DickStone]

For quick service, I recommend a low-cut shirt and some cleavage. (This sometimes also negates the need to tip with your own money.)

I tip every round, unless really drunk. And then I have no idea whether I tipped, but I generally wind up with zero dollars left when I get home.

Most good places have female bartenders now and I am super hot so this theory works both ways.

[Tobias]

If you pay for any drinks with with this approach then you are doing it wrong.

[420seriouscat69]

For quick service, I recommend a low-cut shirt and some cleavage. (This sometimes also negates the need to tip with your own money.)

I tip every round, unless really drunk. And then I have no idea whether I tipped, but I generally wind up with zero dollars left when I get home.

Most good places have female bartenders now and I am super hot so this theory works both ways.

I can't tell you the last time I paid for a drink at Sol.