How Much Should You Tip a Bartender?
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- So, the amount you should tip a bartender probably shouldn’t be determined by bartenders-they’re a little self-interested here. But we gathered a group of America’s best so they could make a case for how much gratuity you should throw their way the next time you order a drink or 10.
Featured Bartenders:
Ryan Wainwright, terrinela.com, Los Angeles
Nicholas Bennett, porchlightbar.com, New York City
Bryan Dayton, oakatfourteenth..., Boulder
Eric Alperin, 213nightlife.co..., Los Angeles
Naomi Levy, easternstandard..., Boston
Joaquín Simó, www.pouringribb..., New York City
Tim Cooper, www.drinksweetw..., New York City Karen Grill, www.sassafrasho..., Los Angeles
Devon Tarby, www.thenormandi..., Los Angeles
Jennifer Colliau, longnow.org/peo..., San Francisco
Erick Castro, www.politeprovi..., San Diego
Julie Lacoste, The Chart Room, New Orleans
Chaim Dauermann, www.upandupnyc.com, New York City
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Editor: Backlot Digital
Executive Producer: Brian Berkowitz
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I watched this episode directly after the one where they all say how easy bar tending is...
just because something is easy does not mean it can't be hard work. Do any job 100% for eight hours and tell me it's easy.
Easy to pickup on and easy to maintain a consistent standard for 8 hours are two different things. This is especially true when it's related to cooking/food.
James Tipps lol. So did I
Try be "on" for 6-8 hours straight and deal with hundreds of people... yeah making drinks isn't hard once you learn how but creating an experience for every customer isn't easy
vinceat852 Cooking and making cocktails are two different things. One is extremly hard and one is job that a kid can do. I bet you can figure out which one is which.
It's awesome that they talk about how hard these drinks are to make and how much money they should receive, yet in another video they all talk about how easy the job is and that anyone could do it. Funny how that works.
They are just a bunch of hipocrites and frauds, they contradict themselves in each video just because something sounds right at the moment :D
essentially their job is not rocket science however the long hours and dealing with morons makes it hard
So tip cashier at walmart or staff in mcdonalds with that logic.
People actually feel obligated to tip those people, but I'm told Wal-Mart has a strictly enforced policy where workers aren't allowed to accept tips.
Target then? Tesco? Fucking subway? anywhere else in the world where you get service for your money?
I know that when I'm out drinking and relaxing the very first thing I want to do is work out percentages. So much fun.
"You tip, because, you know that's how bartenders make a living."
that's horseshit. My roomate is a bartender at a local restaurant burger chain and he makes more than minimum wage+ exhorbitant tips.
I work in the medical field and don't get paid tips... which I feel like medical professionals should get tipped; extremely long hours, very high levels of stress, and no tips, just the standard wage.(which varies depending on what you are/ what field you are doing the researching)
Depends on the location, the state, the country, the bar. Either way both your jobs pay pretty well compared to a veterinary assistant.
I tip because you do your job right and go the extra to stand out.
I’m a bartender and I don’t expect anyone to tip me. However I have found the biggest tips I’ve ever received have come from getting to know the person on the other side of the bar, I work at an airport and there’s always something to talk to them about where they are going etc.
Well if you work at an airport, you're probably serving rich or very high Middle class people who can actually afford to go to a bar at an airport.
How much is a domestic beer there? 20 dollars?
Who the hell bartends and doesn't expect tips lol there's no way you work in US
@@tyriqcollier5509 Yeah. In the USA. Tipping is a given. That's why bartenders work hard. Because they need those tips and I as a drinker always reward good service
You’re not getting 25% for tipping a whiskey bottle into a glass
Better tip gets a longer pour
@@atropineman3541 lol no it doesn't.
Duh! But if you sit at my bar and I talk to you, listen to you and build your experience up, then I’ve earned 25%.
@@atropineman3541 that is kinda true! I feel like it's also about making connections and a good impression on your servers. I've made great connections with bartenders/ management in my area and they usually make my drinks pretty strong as a result of my connection with them and that I tip not like an asshole.
I wonder how much these guys tip at McDonald's...
Imagine Mcdonalds staff also get tipped! I think a highschool student with that kind of salary would feel wealthy
So you should tip $1 for pulling a pint of beer? How many beers can a bartender serve in a hour, A LOT
Adam Adamson more than they want you to know.
Sounds like you are deciding how much a bartender should make. Not your call. If you think they make more money than they should then maybe you should try it.
Michael Newman When their pay is hinging on tips which you are NOT obligated to give them, I would say its fair that we decide to some extent. Tipping any flat amount is ignorant. Tip based on service.. That is the bottom line. Any other tipping system is arbitrary and illogical . The whole tipping thing in general is. Plenty of more deserving jobs don't get tipped.
wow so you're going to give me nothing? it's going to take you a LOT longer for you to get that beer full of head next time
@@evanmann8731 I agree. I think tipping is a stupid culture but as long as it’s around you play by the rules. If you expect a tip I expect great service
I'm so glad tipping isn't normal in my country. Means I don't have to worry about percentages while getting drunk.
Raust Lok same here the whole tipping in America is way overboard
You don't have to worry about it here either. The ppl in these videos are morons who think they are in a cool kids club. In reality they are probably alcoholic college dropouts.
Dollar on a beer, two dollars on a cocktail, 25% on a tab. My friend, if you can't divide something by 4 when you're drunk, that's your problem.
Booze is much higher margin than food. Pretending the same tips should exist is ridiculous and these guys are being total divas about it. They probably work at trendy little spots that serve a small amount of customers at high markup, meanwhile the local watering hole down the street has a dude in a tshirt making a buck a beer at three hundred customer orders per hour. What a group of divas
Hes probably makes more tbh
I run a tab and settle at the end of the night, so the x-per-drink stuff really doesn't work for me. I feel like bartenders work a good deal harder than waiters; I don't mean any offense to waiters, but I don't see most of your work, and I do see most of what the bartender does. So I'm more inclined to tip 25% or 30%, moving up toward 30 and possibly beyond if I'm planning on coming back some time soon.
My favorite bartender gets a flat $10 every time I walk in. The other night her tip worked out to be 93% of my tab (at least officially; one of the nice things about consistently tipping fat is that not everything I order necessarily shows up on my check).
all in favor of self-serve bars, say "aye!"
Okay so how that will work would be the bartender would show up to work a few hours before shop opens and make all the cocktails and pour it into a 10 -15 gallon jug and plug a hose into it, leave the batched cocktail jug in the walk-in refrigerator. We as a customer will walk in to the restaurant or shop, grab a glass and pull the lever (similar to beer through the tap).
I really don't understand tipping :
-for the first coctail you've ordered (How am I supposed to know if you did job good enough to deserve me throwing money at you?)
- for the tap beer ( unless it's tricky to pour, like guiness and other thick beers )- I mean are you serious? Should I tip 20% for the guy who sells me pepsi cup in cinema?)
-for the bottled drinks, including beer (why should I? I'm already paying more for the sake of being in a bar, was it that difficult to take the cap off?)
-because "that's what you do" (why would you tip even 1 cent for a bad service?)
-for making the easiest drinks (rum+coke, gin&tonic etc) in usual way (I mean it's like ordering a cheeseburger, why would you tip for it?)
I do understand tipping for difficult-to-make drinks prepared in way that taste particularly good, for fast service in crowded bar, for being extra nice to the client and especially for making not-on-the-menu drinks.
I live in Australia so i don't deal with tipping at all really but in American they get paid next to nothing, it's meant to promote good service so they get better tips and earn more i think.
Frame by Frame
yeah but that's not the customer's problem that waiter earns shit. Moreover- if you want to encourage good service you tip for the good service and... tip anyway for bad service? No, nobody should get tips for bad service. It's literally saying "waiter you were rude to me, you mixed up my order and you spit in my food- you will only get 5 dollars for no reason instead of 10 today, I hope you'll learn your lesson".
TheReal Minus25 My grand parents went to America and didn't tip when they received bad service. Even went so far as to roast him for his bad service when his manager got involved. You do realize that you dont have to tip if you dont want too, you're not a sheep.
And food is more expensive in countries without tipping as their pay has already been factored into it's price so youre not paying "extra" when you tip.
No offense, but when you said "I really don't understand tipping", you were correct. I understand your rationale on your following points, but there are reasons that the entire service industry in the US is set up this way, and it would be great if you could sort of go with the flow when you visit.
NortonNice
no
" i would tip whatever you're comfortable me knowing."
Great way to end it. This is the bottom line.
I tip 20 percent of what ever my bill is with food and drink. Individual drinks with no food are a buck. That's just how it is. When I go to resorts on vacation it's a buck a drink too
Yep, this is the rule. Hipsters and liberals aren't going to change this simply because they are known as mixologists now.
and I'm just sitting here in the UK, making 4 rounds of Mojito's and not getting tipped shit for it.
I'll tip 20% on a cocktail night, though my cocktails are pretty easy. Beer, a dollar tip, whisky 10%, depending on the whisk(e)y
"He or she will remember [if you don't tip 20%]"
This dude actually has the audacity to admit he will do a bad job if he doesn't get extra money.
The rest of us do our best 100% of the time, every day, no matter who the client is.
Must be new to the industry
It's not that they'll do a bad job, it's that a good tip will get a better pour (more liquor)
I've never understood the mentality of tipping people for doing the job they signed up to do. It is your job to make people drinks, so why do you feel you should be tipped for doing what you're supposed to do?
"But bartenders don't get paid that much."
They knew that before they signed up for this profession. They went into it knowing full well what they could expect as far a money was concerned and accepted it. If they wanted more money, they should have chosen a different profession.
By that logic you could say "You know tipping is expected when entering a bar." I agree mandatory tipping is stupid, but it's not the bartenders that are to blame, it's the employers. Pay them a decent wage and change to voluntary tipping. Works just fine in Europe.
I tip a dollar with every drink. I mostly drink beers and just two ingredient drinks, so it's not my fault if your're charging ten and fifteen dollars per drinks.
Your consistent tipping is appreciated!
My dude, if you got a problem with paying about 10-15 a drink, you must be a habitual drinker. You do the math and realize it’s getting expensive. The honest truth is, have your drinks at home. Mix them yourself. Show off at a party. If you do in fact go out, fork over the money. Going out to drink however, is your own burden if it’s a dependency.
Jesus Garcia I agree. That is one of the reasons I rarely visit bars anymore, maybe two/three times a year. I do tip 20% when I am there but I don't frequent these establishments because they are a huge drain on my wallet. I get 6 craft beers for around $10 from Kroger or any other supermarket and share them with 5 friends at home. Or make cocktails at home for around $2 or less per drink 😀
you crack open 2 beers and expect a dollar really?
Yes, if not stay home and crack your own beers
@@roberts.8389 Exactly these stingy cheap ass people
25% lol
Take an intro to economics class. Saying 'it's hard to make a drink' is not an argument
If a beer costs 5 dollars and u tip 1 doller that is 20% 😂😂
i just tip because it's something you just do, "for opening your bottle of bear you don't have to give me $2 just give $1", it's a retarded system where else do customers pay employees directly for doing their job? only thing you're doing is ensuring that their wages don't go up, but atm the system is in place so just stopping to tip would be rude to the staff
Lots of sales jobs make commission.
Dude I thought it was 15%
I always struggled a bit with this. I've only been drinking in America once and I went to a reasonable few bars. I tipped at some (usually because my American girlfriend said we should and the bartender was pretty cheery so it seemed fair enough). But I remember the first bar we went to, it was a bit of a 'dive' bar, I didn't tip at all because I didn't realise it was expected to (being an ignorant foreigner). But looking back on it, I was thinking why should I have? I was sitting right at the bar, it's not like I was receiving table service, the first woman who served me was quite friendly but left soon after I had got there, and the woman who replaced her was miserable and only said anything to me when she told me the price of the drink, they also didn't even handle a situation with a drunk customer very well who threw a bar stool on the ground and was not escorted out by any member of staff. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the bar and the other patrons, and I felt a bit guilty after I was told it was the etiquette to tip, but I still overall couldn't justify giving the bartender a 1 dollar tip after every draught beer which they poured for me. I wonder how many Americans who would enjoy a drink after work or on a saturday night are put off by this culture of paying even more money for a drink which is already quite expensive? In Britain this has hurt the pub industry and you're not even expected to tip in Britain, home drinking has just become a cheaper and more convenient option.
Person tips a dollar on a complicated cocktail
The bartender will remember this action
I basically tip based on the service provided. I don't expect some extravagant pampering, but if the drink is served with a smile, and they check in every once in a while with a smile, then they're getting a good tip.
I’ll tip because someone does a good job. I don’t tip just because it’s expected and “that’s how a bartender makes a living” . I don’t own the bar I am not their employer the owner should be paying their employees a decent wage it shouldn’t land on the customer to supplement salary.
Worst thing about america is tipping culture , bars , restaurants, hotels, dry cleaners, xmas tree people omg no more!
why?
@@adamdomo8936 it's annoying
I don't know, the monthly school mass shootings seem a little worse, but I get your point.
Any business that forces its employees to depend on tips to make a bare living is deliberately underpaying them. A tip should be for exceptional service, at the end of the night only, and a customer who withholds a tip should know that the employee is earning an adequate wage without it.
That’s how the US economy works , and that’s why the US has great customer service compared to Europe and other countries .
I've tipped very well in bars and you expect to be treated well when you return. That's not always the case. Tip based on how the service was. If tips are how they make a living then effort should be placed to making you want to leave a tip. I like feeling comfortable when I go to a bar or restaurant part of that is getting good service. I don't care what people think the norm is if I get great service I give a great tip if I get bad service I don't tip, regardless it's always annoying when going out to eat with many people and having a disagreement over how much should be tipped.
How I tip. Take the tax. Round it up, say if tax is 5.01 its gonna be 6.
Ultimately the patron has the buying power because we have the money and we're at your bar so ultimately it's what 20% just like a dinner but if you're up for lunch it's 10% but if you get a beer I would give you a buck if I get a special agent I probably give you the three bucks two five bucks but I definitely tip you well though because that's just how it should be
20% per order? Im a barman in England and I can honestly say I get tipped in spare change maybe once every 5-8 orders, at the end of my shift I don’t even make 1 hours wage in tips 😂
Ok, im from UK and ive been going to pubs/clubs etc all around the world for 30+ yrs and never tipped the barstaff....bought them drinks yes...handed them cash no.
Sany0 I wish it was that way in the US
Tips are earned, not given.
There definitely needs to be a distinction... if you're just pouring me a beer from the tap, that's something I could do, or a vending machine could do... you can't make it any more strong/weak for me, so I'll just tip a little because it took some of your time to do it. But if it takes skill, or multiple ingredients, and I want you to give me good service and stronger drinks... yeah 20-25% for sure. Pouring me a beer or popping the cap off a bottle of beer for me? $0.25 or $0.50 a pint/bottle (added up at the end) should be fine. And it depends if I'm sitting at the bar or not... if I'm taking up a seat at the bar and depriving you of other revenue from other guests, then yeah I'll tip more. But if I come up there grab a beer and walk away for a while and only come back for more beers, I'll do a couple bucks and round up to the nearest $5-10 or something.
I've never got any tips yet and to be honest I don't mind if people don't tip I mean it would be great but I'm not going to pressure anyone for it
How is pouring a $5 beer harder than pouring a $30 glass of whiskey, but I have to give 20% on both
if you pouring fountain pop and watered spirits...get the heck out lol
I will say since my bartender is such a good friend I normally always tip her 20+ my bill is usually $40 to $60 but she'll always cut down, usually in half. I told her she ain't gotta cause I'll tip her good. So far I've tipped her 80 on a $40 bill. I know it's really high but she's really good. Doesn't just pay attentions to her friends and co-workers including friends who're customers. Plus she's held on to my card before when I forgot it. It all depends on them. You could be a "good" bartender but others try to get you to become regulars that's the ones I avoid.
I generally tip closer to 30% and up to around 50% when I'm asking the bartender for recommendations on certain whiskeys
In the bar that I work in I make roughly 1000 Euro on each shift in ireland. Are you trying to seriously tell me that I get 200 Euro five days a week in the states and STILL be considered working in a poor job? That ratio still works out as 1 Euro per beer. That's crazy money!
Bartending in the uk we don’t demand tips cos we get a decent salary. U get a tip for doing a good job 🙄🙄
Serve me well, get tipped well. Friday night hustle to simply grab me a beer and pop the top for less than a minute of work and be happy you get paid. If bartenders don't like it, plenty of jobs elsewhere or get an education that pays. Easy to replace.
Bar staff don’t get tips in Ireland. At best, people will say “keep the change” which will amount to maybe a 5% tip per order. You tip when you buy food, generally between 10% and 15%.
1dollar for a beer 2 dollars for a mixed drink...that's what I do
Bartenders shouldn't complain about not making tips, especially in US/Canada. When asked if they would rather make a regular wage vs a lower one + tips, they always choose tips because they usually end up making more on tips...BUT....in doing so, they inherit the full risk of not making tips and then have the audacity to argue that their living is based on the customers tipping them. It's a risk that is entirely on them, and if customers aren't tipping 20%, then it's not enough. 20% is a joke
My buddies and I and our wives all drink at home. It’s more cost efficient. And when we get a new bottle we like to share it with close friends and family, not watch a bunch of drunken idiots at a bar.
I guess it is the bar culture to tip. With that being said I don't do 20%. I may do that if I had a regular watering hole and I know the people and they do a good job.
I round up. Say I'm buying a $7 cocktail I'll pay $8 that way if I have $30 I have enough for exactly for drinks including tip. I'm a regular at my preferred drinking establishment and when I'm in there they know what I'm drinking if they know I'm consuming alcohol they're already making my drink by the time I'm in line for a drink and because I pay cash I often don't have to wait for my drink but that's because I'm a regular and I treat the staff well cuz they are friends also I live in Canada where you tip based on service.
If my beer is $5 I'll pay six basically I round up to the next even number.
Probably closer to a 15% tip but if I'm ordering drinks all night and even though not to mention I always tip a little extra on my last drink of the night to make up for any cheap Miss I may have displayed earlier in the evening
or tip what the service was worth?
Depends on which country you are in.
Tipping can be a way of making sure you get fast service on the next drink. Also you should tip if the service was good. To have a system which actually lets the customer pay for the wages via a "you're a bad person if you don't tip" is just bad. I will not tip if the service/food was shit - its a way of letting them know so. And if they are offended? That's just the point...
Though I hate the idea of tipping, I like preferential treatment I get when I start with $5 or $10 then $1-2/drink after.
I get it if I order a cocktail but what about if you just want a glass of neat whisky? Still 20 percent?
Ryan Wainwright in the previous video you said a secret is how easy bartending is now you work very hard ? ohh I see just depends what subject we are on ! hehe haha Nice one !
Wow American bar tenders expect a lot of tips. Most places in the U.K. The norm is the change to round up to the next £. And even then some places only take around 50p
compulsory tips are weird ... why do i have to pay pay a tip? whats with the U.S obsession of tips? i dont get it!
Because servers and bartenders in the U.S. make below minimum wage, and essentially our entire income is tips.
@@jadeyarrowjuntunen6258 why should i care make the minimum wage higher so everyone can be happy. I don't understand why i must tip for nothing. Wow you gave me a beer in a bottle take 20% -_-. If the drink is difficult to be made then okay you deserve a tip. Like a shot is pretty fucking simple why you need Extra money it wasn't hard. Pay for good service and only when they do a good job don't tip because it's a must
Sometimes I go crazy and tip up to a dollar per order!
We don't tip bartenders in Ireland like we don't tip people in a bank or working in a shop.....as they are already being paid to do there job by their employer like the rest of us. As they said in an earlier video that their job is easy so why get a tip
I did not watch this video but I am assuming all of bartenders expect a tip. The video should also include some bar patrons to get their views on tipping. BTW if a bar provides waiter/waitress service I always tip is the service is good.
Why would we tip them when they al ready get paid
$2.53/ hour? Can you live on that?
How much I tip? NOOOOTHING!
It’s all good , don’t expect good service but doubt you even go out to nice places
i usually dont tip at a bar until the end of the night i might throw a 5 bucks at them and that a small might. I look at it as you already chargeing me double what alchool cost at the liquor store so why would i pay another 2 dollars. its gonna cost 6 or 8 dollars a beer for something that cost 2 bucks. NO THANKS
Think about how much it costs to get a bar up and running. Construction and licencing is easily $500,000 and usually way north of that. Annual labor and payroll taxes can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Other overhead can be tens of thousands of dollars easily. The bar stool that you sit on is $250, as are the other ten next to them. You're paying for all of that, and it takes a lot of "$2 beers" just to cover the startup costs, let alone operating costs. So, maybe don't stiff the worker. Maybe just buy your beer at the liquor store and stay home.
NortonNice sorry bud i stay out its not my problem to pay your operating and start up cost its not 2 dollar beers its 9 dollar beers they sell when its 2 dollars of cost i dont care there makeing money off the bar and the server get paid shit hourly so your telling me because the guy that started up the bar payed ao much money and pays the staff pennies that in order for his workers to make a "fair"wage as you say i as the customer gotta pay 7 dollars over cost of the beer and then pay the server cause the employer doesnt want to?
I'm saying that startup, build out, and operating overhead are factored into the price that you pay. Just like how a hamburger costs $10 at a restaurant, but you can make at least 5 hamburgers at home for the same price. Some people get it, and some people stiff the staff because they think they've got some novel ideas about how dining out is supposed to work. Lets face it though, if you can't afford the gratuity, you really can't afford to eat out. Nothing wrong with that.
If it costs less at the liquor store, get your booze there and drink at home. If you go to a bar, you're paying for labor, atmosphere, occupying the space.
wow... si much entitlement. if the drink is difficult to make, raise the bloody price. don't artificially lower the price by expecting tips, and then become judgemental pricks
Keeping prices low and putting the burden of compensation on the patron is the work of the owner, not the bartender. It allows the owner to underpay their employees (literally the lowest wage allowed by law), and lure guests in with low prices.
NortonNice they still have to pay minimum wage if they don't make tips equaling or exceeding said wage...
sometimes us is weird
i think i always do 20% on beers/shots. thats the only thing i drink though
As a bartender who is made a lot of Ramos gin fizzes you tip more than 20% on those
If I hit the Lottery I would give a great part of it to Bartenders and Waitpeople.🍺
How do u have a gimlet that takes 4 days to make that doesn't even make sense it's just Spirits, lime juice, and simple syrup
It probably has to do with making their own lime cordial in house, would be my guess. Prep work for cocktails can be a very time-consuming process.
Bartender here. Just want to thank everyone who tips their bartenders. We work for your satisfaction and look out for your safety, and appreciate your business and understanding attitude. BTW, I've never met a rich bartender. We're just earning an honest living and aiming to get by, despite the common conception of raking it in.
NortonNice most ppl don't even know we were suppose to tip you guys in the first place. Just being honest.
Just for some context, I'd say the average income for a bartender in my city is $38,000 - $58,000 per year. Median home price is $540,000, gas is $3.45 a gallon and a gallon of organic milk is $5.99. Annual income of my regular, everyday customers is in the neighborhood of $250,000 to $450,000 (lawyers, judges, doctors, pilots, pharma sales, software engineers, basically a white-collar bar). In other words, my regulars make 10X what I make (I'm happy for them, they got a good education and great jobs and they work very hard). The bartenders that I know make enough to stay out of poverty, but not enough to take a lot of vacations, let alone buy a home.
Leana Jo clothes and makeup no longer equal status i. todays society
I'm Canadian, and though Ive never bartended a day in my life, a couple of my closest and oldest friends do.
The problem in the US is that most of a server's compensation relies on the tip. We tip up here to, but because we have sane laws that don't exploit the service industry, bartenders are guaranteed $10-14 (depending on province) an hour before tips. I've lived in the states a couple years, and the food in restaurants is noticeably cheaper on a per meal basis -- basically, the restaurateurs/ bar owners are fine skimping on server's wages, and using the customer's choice to tip (or not) as the reason. So servers down there ultimately feel the pressure to say insane things like "20% tip is normal". Imagine taking out your family once a month for a nice meal, spending $150, then adding $25 tip, and STILL being thought of as a cheapskate.... Im in healthcare, and my wife owns a daycare -- trust me when I say we know a thing or two about working to serve the people. To guilt the public into tipping more instead of holding the industry accountable for deliberately suppressing labour costs in order to advertise a lower cost to the public is not only ineffective, its also insulting.
I tip 14-15% most of the time; I rarely go below 10%, if service was terrible (like the worst of the year), and up to 20% if its pretty good (a couple times 30%, because the service was over and above). Tipping 25% makes the cost of eating out prohibitive -- and Im sure Im not the only one who feels this way.
ps- Bartenders usually make OK money if you count it at an hourly rate, so I don't know what the OP is talking about. I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but someone making $25-40/hour pouring drinks is not a sympathetic figure; especially when so much of your income goes undeclared, hence untaxed.
Look out for our safety? I didn't know superman pulled a few pints
Fuck I feel like a cheap bastard now, haha.. Never tipped in a bar, already expensive enough as it is. Although I must say it's not really in the culture here (Netherlands) like it is in the USA and I usually visit way too busy places.
capitalism has distorted the value of everything
when i bartended after your first drink no tip meant a third less in your drink, id happily put that third in a tippers drink. non tipping beer drinkers? even the owner knew his $ was liquor sales so they could wait till i made 5 drinks and 5 shots for the next group but id open them a beer whilst pouring shots if they tipped. its mind games you gotta hustle, theres only so much time even on the busiest night, you may never get rich but you might pay your bills
$1 a drink is my minimum. But I usually order $2/3 beers
if i hear this id love to work wherever they work .. i mean i get payed 1400 euro for a 38 hour per week ...@ 8 hours per day .. im not sure if they earn any outside of tipping .. but if i would even get 5 percent of every bill i do in a months time .. oh boy i would go home with atleast 5000 euro( so a little less in dollars ) a month .. and then lets cut taxes , and those are ALOT less in america ) i would have earned atleast 4 to 5 times more then i did then i did right now on the age of 26 ... ( and i have been working Fulltime in the bartending busssines since my 16 ) .. i am gonna be cold here , if i any of the american bartenders would work in europe ( belgium in special , because there is nowhere else in the world to pay more taxes ) none of you would be in such a good mood ... but i still do it everyday with a Huge smile ...
What country do you live in that makes 4800 euro a month of salary?!?!
Woooow, so many cheap shits here. I tip the norm or a little bit over the norm in general, not because "it was hard work for them" but because I'm not stingy and know that there are people working their asses off around me. I have worked tipped jobs before, and I know how it is to deal with cheap, rude, and entitled pricks. If the service, attitude and personality of the bartender, speed of making the drink, and everything else is up to snuff, why is it so terrible for you to drop a dollar or two? Not ALL bartenders make great money, not every bar is quite is busy as others that have a packed house every night. If you frequent the bar enough, it's actually quite nice to have a friend in the bartender anyway.
I work my ass off around people as well as a nurse, should i get some extra on the side? And i don´t just pour you few drinks, i have to deal with a lot of mess that might be coming out of you and more.
I always tip according to the quality of the service. I once had a bartender fuck up a whiskey "neat"...3 times in a row. Needless to say, he received no tip.
Nah. A buck for a glass of wine
BULLSHIT! I have worked long enough to know that Bartenders are NOT tipping the cooks, bar backs, etc., based on what the night delivered. I have known only 1 bartender that legitimately tipped out the support staff at a rate that was to the job performed by support every time. She was about the job in the long term and not the quick-hit-see-ya world style of service. She makes damn good money because she knows that long term consistent cash is far more significant than the "wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am" method.
I have never in my life tipped a bartender, as far as i am concerned i paid for my drink. Fuck that shit.
What if you pay and tip in cash all the time?
That’s fine
If i go into a bar and i order a drink as i wait if its 12 dollars or under ill hand them a 20 and im okay with that. But im a melineal that carries cash so i may be an odball in that sense
That's the dumbest shit I've ever read
" You tip because that's how bartenders make a living. " as if. most bartenders i know, they buy coke and more beer with that money.
You must live in a crappy place
I want to be a bartender but theese guys put me off. They already make above minimum wage and I'de be happy with that. Dishwashers and cooks are also working hard and get payed way less, I wouldn't complain.
Mario Perez well these guys work in cocktail bars in busy or richer parts of their cities, so a wall street guy shouldn’t be tipping a buck for a cocktail that’s $16
Just tip them a dollar, how hard is it to pour a drink lol
How about a dollar for 5 beers. And if u r lucky, u might get that dollar the next time. They act like they went to college for this crap. Watch what u ask for. $2 beer, so here's your forty cent. Damn you couldve have a buck
10%.
bro do I have to tip? man what if I dont tip bro those people has limited amount of money do they have to tiipppp? 😭😭
Ask for higher wages I ain't paying you shit.
Expect poor service because you're low class and don't know how to act in public.
In Europe, we pay our bar staff a decent wage and only tip them for exceptional service. This culture of tipping, which you have on the American continent, is entirely contemptible and it reeks of entitlement.
Interesting perspective. Over here it doesn't reek of entitlement, people just understand that service employees are purposefully underpaid and earning good tips through good service is an incentive, and incentives work. One of the things Europe is known for is bad table service, possibly for this very reason.
I've been all over the world, I don't think we have a particularly poor table service. I don't think it is particularly different to the table service you get in the United States. Sure, we don't get the frequency of the waiter/waitress asking us if everything is ok. Though I think that can only be good. I personally find that incredibly irritating.
I'm convinced that the tipping tradition in the US is simply because you chaps have one dollar notes and with them you can give off the faux impression that you're generous. What would be really generous is to give them a fair wage - I've never had to tip a fireman to give him an incentive to put the fire in my house out.
Christopher Herman Interesting perspective. I generally agree with your description of the differences. I agree that a fair wage is a fair idea. I'll just add that most tips are over one dollar, and placed on private credit card transactions, and that Americans on the whole, are extremely generous, both with their time and money.
I don't drink and have no interest in it or any idea why I keep watching these videos
All you guys do is pour liquid into a cup
It’s a service , if you don’t like it make your own drinks at home
Whew! So I'm good. $1 per bud.
Dont make a gimlet then.
you guys aint entitled to a tip
In America yes, if you don’t like it stay home
@@roberts.8389 nope
I'm not going to lie, if it's a pretty girl, I tip a very large amount. especially if it's at a bar and I'm drunk. if it's a guy or a not very attractive women then I usually tip standard. the way I see it, the waitress or bartender is geting payed to do a job, he or she doesn't give a shit about you, but if they do you g
should definitely tip them. I don't like how it's always like you absolutely have to tip even if you get bad service. but if you have good service always tip.
3 days for a gimlet!!! What the heck.
1 billion dollars
Everything at a restaurant and bar is marked up 5-10 times the price that the business paid for it. Why is the service fee not included in an already inflated price?