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We all that know that tipping your waiter 15-20% is the standard (though some of you will surely disagree) or that you usually throw the pizza guy at least a couple bucks, especially if he braves flood waters to deliver your order. But what about your tattoo artist, or your salmon fishing guide or your sherpa?
The folks at CouponSherpa.com have come up with a handy reference list of 63 different tips for tipping. Here are some highlights:
*Take-Out Food - 10% when you pay. Make sure you tip based on the entire check if you use restaurant coupons.
*Mom & Pop Coffee Shops – $1 if you’re just purchasing a drink. 10% if you’re running a tab or making a meal-sized purchase.
*Chain Coffee Shops – 25 cents tossed in the tip jar, if they were nice and you feel like it. More if they made you a complex drink and served it pleasantly. Nothing if you got your own cup and filled it while all they did was take your cash.
*Taxi - 10% to 15% is standard and 20% if the driver helps you with heavy bags.
*Stylist, Colorist or Barber – 15% to 20%
Pizza – $2 to $5 depending on the distance the delivery person had to drive. If you use pizza coupons, make sure you tip based on the total price of the check. Check first to make sure a small tip was not already included in the total price, but make sure this isn’t a “service fee” not shared with drivers.
*Furniture – $5 per large item delivered. You may want to tip more if the delivery requires a lot of set up.
*Hotel Housekeeping Staff – $1 to $5, depending on the hotel’s quality and extra services provided. Tip daily as staff varies and put the cash in a sealed enveloped indicating it’s for housekeeping.
* Blackjack Dealers — $5 chip per gambling session (higher at high limit tables). Also, you can set up a side bet for the dealer as a tip, usually at the minimum betting level.
*Salmon Fishing Guides — 15% is the average for independent fishing guides, but not less than 10%.
*Museum Guides — $1 per tour participant.
*Tattoo Artists – 10% to 20%, depending on the difficulty and amount of work performed.
*Movers – $10 to $20 per mover, depending on the amount of work necessary.
*Tow Truck Operators – $3 to $5 per car towed, even if it’s covered by AAA.
*Mail Carriers – Government employees are prohibited from receiving money as a gift or gratuity, but the Postal Service tends to turn a blind eye during the holidays. A $5 to $10 tip is sufficient, unless your mail is delivered by a different carrier each day. Even better, write a letter of appreciation to the carrier’s supervisor.
*Sherpas – Tip one Yak for making it up the mountain and an additional Yak every time the sherpa has to save you from falling off the mountain.
You can check out the entire list at CouponSherpa.com.
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I usually tip 15% – 20% at restaurants but that is not a given. If the service is slow, sloppy, waiter indifferent, etc then I’m not afraid to leave less. Once I left a 2 cent tip. However, after I left the restaurant I did feel some regret as I realized I probably over tipped. And no, I’m not a scrooge. Once, after realizing I had inadvertantly failed to leave a tip, I returned to the restaurant three days later, apologized to the waitress and gave her a larger than normal tip.
Really… WTF wrote this article? And where do you live? Fantasy land? No one tips me for doing my job and I’m unclear why most of the aforementioned duties should require a tip. If you’re unhappy with your station in life.. change it.
One they didn’t mention and might apply to some people is if you’re paying for some sort of all-day private guide (like an all-day private ski lesson), you should pay for their lunch on top of the tip.
When did tipping become a requirement? Don’t get me wrong, I tip. In cash. But only when it’s deserved. Here’s a tip on tipping: the more the person made an effort to provide over-the-top service, the higher the tip. I’ve tipped anywhere from 0% (i was the only person in the restaurant and I could not get any service at all.), to 25% (i had no Idea what to order, the server asked me a few questions, and had the chef cook something not on the menu especially for me. drinks were refilled without me noticing).
i agree with all but the blackjack and the sherpas…don’t tip a sherpa until you make it down the mountain and don’t tip the BJ dealer until you’re ready to leave…and ahead.
Most importantly, how to tip websites: http://www.urinalgum.com/?p=878
Seems like some people don’t understand that it’s legal for companies to pay certain professions less than the state’s minimum wage because tips are considered part of the wage. Did some of you not make that connection when people mention the state’s minimum wage then say that what they get paid is less?
Certainly, but clearly this list is not based on the minimum wage earning.
eg “*Mail Carriers”
My haircuts cost $15 and I always tip $5. It’s a chain place but the woman does a great job. The same haircut would cost twice as much or more at some other places so for $20 I feel I get a great deal.
I’d like to know just who got together and determined these tipping rules; who gets tipped and how much? I’ve always known you tip your waiter/tress, and for pizza, etc. delivery. I didn’t know until I began reading some of these Consumerist articles that I’m expected to tip the barber. I just had a couch delivered a few months ago; sounds like I was supposed to tip them too. I guess if I’m expected to tip for pizza delivery, I should be tipping for any kind of delivery. And tipping for takeout just sounds absurd, considering I’m the one who spent time and gas driving to the place (usually I get carryout to AVOID paying a delivery fee and tip).
I wish the government would just do away with the separate minimum wage standard for workers that recieve tips. Then we could just tip based on whether we feel we recieved exceptional service or not and not based on arbitrary standards and expectations.
A $1 tip at a mom & pop coffee shop for a cup of coffee? How much is coffee where you live? What is it they do for you that justifies that? And sorry, I don’t tip on takeout food. This is getting ridiculous.
How much do i tip the newspaper delivery person?
I work at a trucking company that also does some moving… Not as a mover but I handle payroll and DoT and etc… The average wage is anywhere from $8-10 an hour…. These guys aren’t very well off but they can definitely survive with out a $10-20 tip, especially considering how easy it is to do their job. Our OTR(over-the-road) drivers work WAY harder, obviously with no tip. Lucky them you net about $4000-5000 a week as a truck driver.
At our restaurant, the take out person is basically your server. We put in the order, the cook throws out the food, we QC it, package it, get drinks and handle payment. Do that for a togo order for 20 people and see if you don’t deserve a tip.
Hmm… why am I tipping my tattoo artist, just because he’s my artist? He owns his chair at the shop (if he doesn’t own the shop as most do), he sets his own prices, and gives you your quote… Tipping, unless something miraculous happens, seems a little excess… And I have lots of ink, and I’ve never heard of this before…. (I actually can’t remember if I tipped or not…)
Does one tip for getting clothes altered?
I worked as a mover in college, $10-20 is about right except on jobs where we’re working 12 hours. $50 would be appreciated then.
Also, for the love of God please clean your shit before movers come in you dirt bags.
Same for Europe?
How did we become a society where everyone thinks they should get extra money from me for doing their job? There are those occupations where tips have to be given, because the people who work these jobs are under-compensated because they are expected to get tips (and I’d rather see them paid properly and eliminate tips totally, even though prices would go up), but in most cases, when you take a job you agree to do that job for a certain pay. To all the people in Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, corner delis, etc. – you’re not providing anything more than you were hired to do, so sorry, but I’m ignoring the crudely lettered cup asking for tips. And yes, the same goes for take out.