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Having owned a bar in the past I can tell you right now the most wealthy people either didn't tip at all or very little. Fellow service industry people tipped t

Having owned a bar in the past I can tell you right now the most wealthy people either didn't tip at all or very little. Fellow service industry people tipped the best.

somuchfordonor 4y ago
RHSeeger 4y ago
I would argue it's more likely that most wealthy people that are the type to let you know they're wealthy either didn't tip at all or very little. There's plenty of wealthy people that tip very well, but many of them don't flaunt it in any way.
- ecommerceguy 4y ago
  I figured this would be a response. I knew just about everyone pretty well, it was in a very nice area of town and is a small rural community.
  - RHSeeger 4y ago
    Interesting. I haven't seen this in the areas I've lived in. I wonder if it's more of a "big fish" type thing, where people that are the "big fish" in an area tend to tip worse (and expect people to be impressed / overly thankful when they tip well). If you're in a small area, people that are wealthy may very well map to the people that consider themselves to be the big fish. For areas with a higher population, being wealthy is much more common, so doesn't really mark one as "special" in the same way.
jankyxenon 4y ago
How can you tell? Most wealthy people - in my experience - don't dress the part.
- freedomben 4y ago
  In my case I delivered pizzas, and a person's house is often (though importantly not always) an indicator. My experience was that wealth doesn't seem to matter much for tipping. When I first started I always hoped for the order to the big houses, but as I gained experience I realized it really doesn't matter. Some wealthy people gave generously, as did many poorer people. One of my favorite customers was an illegal immigrant living in a trailer park. Every time I delivered it was a $5 tip (which in those days was a great tip). On a side note, when an order for this guy came up I always made sure the cooks did a great job, and I took his order first.
  - soco 4y ago
    Because the poor know best the value of 5$? Even if often they wouldn't afford tipping. But the wealthy won't really know that, 5$ would be nothing for them so why bother tipping. Unless they actually care about the delivery guy, an attitude which is definitely not a given - some would also think that "poor deserve it for not working hard like us" so again why tipping a "slacker"...
  - rufus_foreman 4y ago
    From my pizza delivery experience...there are different kinds of rich people. Some people are rich because their parents were rich, or they married someone rich, or some other random reason. They have no idea about money. It's a banana, how much could it cost, ten dollars? They just have no idea. None. I couldn't even have gotten mad if they didn't tip or gave a shitty tip, young man yells at sky. Then you could deliver to the same house and someone else answers and it's the person that started the business that paid for the house, and they will tip. Because they know how to motivate workers, and that's money. In my ancient pizza delivering days 2 dollars was a good tip, 3 dollars meant the next time I'm out on a run with three stops, yours is the first. If you don't tip, Greg gets your order. Greg's the kid that only got hired because his dad is friends with the owner, and he tends to get lost and we have to send someone out to rescue him. Money makes the world go around.
- Mikeb85 4y ago
  > How can you tell? What kind of credit card they have. How they decide what to order. Their mannerisms. Even the most low-key wealthy people act differently than poor people. Spend enough time around both and you can tell, even if they're dressed identical.
4bpp 4y ago
This leaves me wondering what percentage of a typical service industry worker's salary is usually spent on tipping, and whether it couldn't be the case that if they stopped giving and taking tips entirely they would be better off in aggregate. I guess it depends on what fraction of their income is spent on "tippable" expenses. I know that in my own case there was a period in grad school where it was only slightly below 50%, implying that almost 10% of my wages were spent on tips... what exactly are the "best" tip percentages that service industry people leave like?
strix_varius 4y ago
I'm curious how you determined whether or not someone was "wealthy."

Having owned a bar in the past I can tell you right now the most wealthy people either didn't tip at all or very little. Fellow service industry people tipped the best.

somuchfordonor 4y ago

RHSeeger 4y ago

I would argue it's more likely that most wealthy people that are the type to let you know they're wealthy either didn't tip at all or very little. There's plenty of wealthy people that tip very well, but many of them don't flaunt it in any way.

ecommerceguy 4y ago
I figured this would be a response. I knew just about everyone pretty well, it was in a very nice area of town and is a small rural community.
- RHSeeger 4y ago
  Interesting. I haven't seen this in the areas I've lived in. I wonder if it's more of a "big fish" type thing, where people that are the "big fish" in an area tend to tip worse (and expect people to be impressed / overly thankful when they tip well). If you're in a small area, people that are wealthy may very well map to the people that consider themselves to be the big fish. For areas with a higher population, being wealthy is much more common, so doesn't really mark one as "special" in the same way.

jankyxenon 4y ago

How can you tell? Most wealthy people - in my experience - don't dress the part.

freedomben 4y ago
In my case I delivered pizzas, and a person's house is often (though importantly not always) an indicator. My experience was that wealth doesn't seem to matter much for tipping. When I first started I always hoped for the order to the big houses, but as I gained experience I realized it really doesn't matter. Some wealthy people gave generously, as did many poorer people. One of my favorite customers was an illegal immigrant living in a trailer park. Every time I delivered it was a $5 tip (which in those days was a great tip). On a side note, when an order for this guy came up I always made sure the cooks did a great job, and I took his order first.
- soco 4y ago
  Because the poor know best the value of 5$? Even if often they wouldn't afford tipping. But the wealthy won't really know that, 5$ would be nothing for them so why bother tipping. Unless they actually care about the delivery guy, an attitude which is definitely not a given - some would also think that "poor deserve it for not working hard like us" so again why tipping a "slacker"...
- rufus_foreman 4y ago
  From my pizza delivery experience...there are different kinds of rich people. Some people are rich because their parents were rich, or they married someone rich, or some other random reason. They have no idea about money. It's a banana, how much could it cost, ten dollars? They just have no idea. None. I couldn't even have gotten mad if they didn't tip or gave a shitty tip, young man yells at sky. Then you could deliver to the same house and someone else answers and it's the person that started the business that paid for the house, and they will tip. Because they know how to motivate workers, and that's money. In my ancient pizza delivering days 2 dollars was a good tip, 3 dollars meant the next time I'm out on a run with three stops, yours is the first. If you don't tip, Greg gets your order. Greg's the kid that only got hired because his dad is friends with the owner, and he tends to get lost and we have to send someone out to rescue him. Money makes the world go around.
Mikeb85 4y ago
> How can you tell? What kind of credit card they have. How they decide what to order. Their mannerisms. Even the most low-key wealthy people act differently than poor people. Spend enough time around both and you can tell, even if they're dressed identical.

4bpp 4y ago

This leaves me wondering what percentage of a typical service industry worker's salary is usually spent on tipping, and whether it couldn't be the case that if they stopped giving and taking tips entirely they would be better off in aggregate. I guess it depends on what fraction of their income is spent on "tippable" expenses. I know that in my own case there was a period in grad school where it was only slightly below 50%, implying that almost 10% of my wages were spent on tips... what exactly are the "best" tip percentages that service industry people leave like?

strix_varius 4y ago

I'm curious how you determined whether or not someone was "wealthy."