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Tipping 15-20% is respectable, less to nothing if the service is horrible, but note it on the bill. My minimum is 20%, but go up to 100% sometimes depending on the service. A good server tips their busboy themselves at the end of the night and sometimes there's a pool for this, there's rarely a pool for kitchen staff because they get paid more. I was in the industry for 8-9 years and never worked at a place that pooled the tips from servers and bartenders (I have done both) and split them, sometimes the bartenders pool, but that's about it. Servers prefer cash too.
If you frequent the same place, servers remember you, just keep that in mind.
The server's mantra in a bar, "when the going gets tough, the tippers get served"
 
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Interesting - we were just there in January, and I checked with my wife just now - neither of us ever saw a tip prompt nor did we feel the expectation to tip at any place e went in Australia, including a week in Melbourne.
You probably didn't go to the fashionable over priced and over rated suburbs of South Yarra and Toorak in Melboune. or Mosmon and Double Bay in Sydney.... these are the places I'd expect them to try this shit
 
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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
You probably didn't go to the fashionable over priced and over rated suburbs of South Yarra and Toorak in Melboune. or Mosmon and Double Bay in Sydney.... these are the places I'd expect them to try this shit
We were what I would describe as the main CBD, not far from the Yarra and 15 minutes walk from Melbourne Park. Stayed at The Windsor Hotel...which I gather must have been a nice place 50 or 60 years ago, but was pretty run down. We did have a pretty nice room though...the "Sir James Munro" suite...


So what I would presume is the heart of the tourist area, so right where I would expect them to do this as there are plenty of people from countries where tipping is the norm visiting.

Didn't see any requirements or asks for tips anywhere we went in Victoria or South Australia.
 
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Charlemagne1333 Charlemagne1333
Are you having a laugh?
Not at all, but I have been there, done that and probably have a different outlook.
I can tell if someone is just new or just doesn't care or goes away beyond the call or just doing the bare minimum too.
 
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97TJ 97TJ
Not at all, but I have been there, done that and probably have a different outlook.
I can tell if someone is just new or just doesn't care or goes away beyond the call or just doing the bare minimum too.
Just out of interest, under what conditions would compel you to leave a 100% tip?
 
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Charlemagne1333 Charlemagne1333
Just out of interest, under what conditions would compel you to leave a 100% tip?
Above stellar service, 5 star treatment whether at a 5 star establishment or not or my regular server that brings me my usual "set-ups" without even asking, automatically brings things I need without asking, things like that.
Again, I was in the business, so it's different, personal for me and the wife, she was a server while in college too.
Sometimes we just like to randomly "bless" people for no other reason other than they're just busting their arse.
 
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We were what I would describe as the main CBD, not far from the Yarra and 15 minutes walk from Melbourne Park. Stayed at The Windsor Hotel...which I gather must have been a nice place 50 or 60 years ago, but was pretty run down. We did have a pretty nice room though...the "Sir James Munro" suite...


So what I would presume is the heart of the tourist area, so right where I would expect them to do this as there are plenty of people from countries where tipping is the norm visiting.

Didn't see any requirements or asks for tips anywhere we went in Victoria or South Australia.
The Windsor was magnificent but went down hill some years ago, The Oberoi group let it run down to try and redevelop it. but there was an uproar. I haven't been there for over 30 yrs. Yeah the Windsor would be within the tourist precinct.
South Yarra isn't really a tourist area it's a suburb that happens to be to south of the river, it is pretty close to the city though.
 
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Arrived in Hawaii.actually finding prices more than reasonable.last time in Miami £1 was worth $1.06 thanks to the lettuce we had as PM (remember her?).now getting $1.33 👍. So tipping isn’t so bad. Aloha Waikiki 💸🌅🎇🌋🛖🛶🏄🍺🍔🌊🌴🐬🕶️❤️
 
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Foreign travel to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon area is off the charts. The supposed foreign travel boycott makes a good headline but probably is 99% bullshit.
 
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Foreign travel to Las Vegas and Grand Canyon area is off the charts. The supposed foreign travel boycott makes a good headline but probably is 99% bullshit.

What charts?
 
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Tourism often has a bit of a lag before trends become apparent as people plan and book their trips well ahead, they pay deposits or in full well ahead of departure so it takes a little time for any changes to show properly in the figures as once committed most people go ahead with their plans as the don't want to waste the money that they've already committed, and they've arranged leave and don't wish to waste it either.
So if there is any drop now, I would imagine it's likely to only get worse, based on what I hear and read.
Not very scientific, I know but I'm not interested enough to bother getting all excited about it, as to the best of my knowledge I have no exposure to the US tourism market. If there is any, it would only be minor exposure through my superannuation fund, long service leave fund or redundancy trust.
 
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Maybe it’s different here in Canada due to our social safety net where, through our taxes, we pay in advance for our socialized medical and to some extent, dental care. I don’t feel I need to rescue a server from poverty through exorbitant tipping. But maybe that’s just my interpretation. When the credit card pay machine arrives at the table and is default set for 18%, 22% & 25% tips, I do the awkward “other” amount to get to 15%. If I’m going to pay more than 15%, then I would just stop dining out. I just don’t enjoy the meal with a 20% fine tacked on top of the bill. I wonder if restaurants will be staying open as part of our cultural landscape for much longer. The office refrigerator has been full of packed lunches the past 5 months, that’s been quite telling.
 
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