The tipping thread got my thinking. I am usually a good tipper, but I just remembered. I don’t tip the owner if I happen to get them. That’s never happened to me in a resturant, though. It’s happened in a few salons. So, do you tip the owner?
I don’t usually tip owners.
In family restaurants, where the girls are waiting tables, I tip. I don’t know enough about the structure of the tips between wait and bus staffs, etc and who is whom. I don’t know if the children are on wages, cut of profit, etc. Have to tip.
Once in a great while, I will visit my old barber, who now has some actual hair salons, and if he cuts my hair, then I don’t tip. His daughter cut my hair, and I tipped.
When in doubt, TIP. You had better be 100% sure that the service you receive is 100% from the owner, and should know the situation pretty well. In the case of my old barber, he’s known me from when I was in a stroller.
Well Service is Service aye?
I go to a pub and the owner usually serves…I feel strange not leaving a tip. :dubious:
I feel the opposite. I think it’s a bit tacky for the owner to take tips. The owner sets the price. Where as someone working under them, has no control (usually) over price.
No tipping the owners.
With one exception: If owner of said business runs and operates the business all by his/herself, then yeah, leave a tip. (Like a hot dog vendor or what not)
I have a friend that owns a (very famous Milwaukee) bar. When he bartends he throws all the tips he gets into the pool for the other bartenders to divvy up at the end of the night. But that’s him. I’m sure some do that, while some pocket it like a normal bartender/waiter.
I’ve never given it any thought. Personally, I’d tip whomever served me my dinner/drink. Even though tipping is supposed to happen because of the wages wait staff makes, in reality it’s become customary to tip in restaurants and bars. I tip based on my service, not how much I feel the person that served me my food or drink makes.
I tip my barber and he’s the owner. I actually never really thought about it, but now I wonder if this is a faux pas?
It would explain a few things. Normally when I give him a bill he will give me change back that isn’t really easy to break into a normal tip. My barber charges $14 for a haircut and I’ve always tipped him $3, which is a little more than 20%.
But he doesn’t usually make it convenient, and maybe this is because he does not expect a tip? Normally when I hand him a $20 he will, if I don’t remember to say something, give me a five and a one back. Now, in a restaurant if I have a $14 bill and give the waiter a $20 they will usually not bring a five and a one back but will bring six ones, I have always assumed this is done because the waiter expects I might leave a 2.5-3.00 tip and am not going to give them a $5, 35% tip just because they didn’t break my change down for me.
So when I forget to say something before hand and my barber goes to hand me a five and a one I always say “I just need three back” (giving him the $3 tip), is it possible I’ve been offending him all these years?
I always tip. I don’t always know who the owner is.
I don’t.
The owner gets All the Net, which is the ultimate profit-sharing deal. If they weren’t doing well, they’d scaleback or end production/service. This is very different from the $2.13 @ hr ‘plus tips’ folk.
A lot of servers will do this, too. It’s like they don’t realize that if someone has to make an extra effort to break a bill, that the customer might very well just not bother and leave a smaller tip. Or possibly the servers hope that someone will leave the five rather than get change.
Martin Hyde, I hadn’t paid attention to how my hair dresser gave me change, but thinking about it, she does the same thing. She’s the owner and sole worker in her small salon. When I’ve gone to Great Clips, they do break my change into singles. I really had not thought about it before.
I’ll keep tipping her. I would hope that if I was offending her, she would say something.