i have just been talking to my friend who lives in texas and she said disney restraunts expect higher tips and eating off site you would only be expected to tip 15% for table meal and 10% for a buffet is this right ???
i have just been talking to my friend who lives in texas and she said disney restraunts expect higher tips and eating off site you would only be expected to tip 15% for table meal and 10% for a buffet is this right ???
Your friend is totally right
I think, the tips at Disney are inflated.
Actually, I always work on the basis of 15-20% for good service at a TS restaurant, 10-15% for a buffet. Anything over and above good gets a higher tip.
Not sure if the tips at Disney are 'inflated' but we have always tipped the same no matter where we are in Florida and plan to do the same in Las Vegas next month.
My family comes from deep Georgia. There the people tip usually 10% not more, sometimes even less or nothing, if they are not satisfied with the service. But 10% for Buffet and 15 % for table service is really fine.
From what I have read online, the assumed minimum wage for wait staff in Florida is assumed to be $7.79 per hour, of which $4.77 is paid by the employer, and I am guessing that they are taxed assuming this rate. So by my reckoning, if wait staff are getting, say, $10 for each table, even if they split it with other persons, they will be earning in excess of the assumed minimum wage. It is for that reason that I won't be paying any more than $15 per meal (for 2 adults and 1 child) unless I get some extra special service.
wayneg said:I assume minimousefan means regular cast members being helpful in parks and counter service meals which you don't tip.
We have been a party of 6 last twice on DDP, as a family of 3 we sometimes tipped less, sometimes more so at 18% its not much different for us.
Last year every place we ate at added 18% except Beaches and Cream, she left it upto us to decide, her service was exceptional so we left 25%, they might gain from some with 18% auto tip but lose on others. I know you can add more but its not something I would do, if they set it at 18% then thats what they get.
I saw this at work today, and thought it was strangely apt given this thread!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-applebees-waitress-needs-tips
Interesting POV from a Waitress.
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The one the h that really gets to me is the fact I have to tip 18% at buffets!!! To me this is a joke .
I get my own food plus the kids, and yet all the server does it collect my dishes and fill my drinks and because of the buffet prices they can get a higher tip then a Ts server!
Next trip now the boys are older i think we will only do 2 buffets at the most!
Kath2003 said:We tip the same amount as TS at buffets (15-20%). The server may not take your order and deliver your meal, but statistically they collect more than twice as many plates as people are more likely to sample different dishes. It's easily as much work as TS. We prefer buffets for some meals where we want to try a wide variety of foods (breakfast in particular, I want pancakes, waffles, fruit, eggs, the works!) so am more than happy to tip accordingly. The buffet servers we have had in Disney have actually always been better than the TS servers we had (e.g. One heard me say to my partner the they were out of strawberries - fresh bowl appeared on the table for me a moment later).
We also tip cab drivers (min 10%), housekeeping (min $1/person/day) and bartenders ($1/drink). We budget for all of this in the cost of our holiday.
See I feel very different about buffets then you do,
My kids eat very little at buffets we don't collect a mountain of plates just because we can! And I feel they really don't do that much compared to the TS places I eat at but then like you said before you don't do Disney!
So if I was only paying $10 a buffet and at breakfast as little as. $4 I would not mind paying 20% either lol,
But instead I'm paying upwards of $30 for a plate or 2 of food at the most, we also due to having owned a cafe always stack our plates etc so the server never normally has to come by twice.
We also always budget for
Taxi
Housekeeping we tip a $ a person each day which is $6
Bar tenders
Porters
Etc
We have been going to the US Many yrs and as nearly all my family but my mum are Americans the tipping conversations come up regular, I don't doubt some servers work hard at buffets but I've found it to be the minority.
I saw this at work today, and thought it was strangely apt given this thread!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/fired-applebees-waitress-needs-tips
Interesting POV from a Waitress.
xx
I think the % of tips expected in the US and the expectation that you still leave 10% even if the service is poor is a very alien concept to many. (I can only speak for Brits).
No, you can only speak for yourself. As I said earlier in the thread, if I receive poor service or poor food, I would speak to somebody first to try and resolve the issue before I resorted to reducing the tip. Leaving a tip is not an alien concept to me and I will continue to tip well when I am in the US.