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babyturtlelover
Citizen
Username: Babyturtlelover
Post Number: 53
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 10, 2005 - 10:17 pm: |     |
I promised my girls I would take them one night this week to the chinese buffet on route 10. they love the place me personally i cant stand it but anyway how much would you tip at a buffet? the waiters clean the table and serve your drinks. |
us2inFL
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 1326
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 4:25 am: | |
$1.50 to $2 per person is more than adequate. Ever notice that for the most part Asian people who eat there rarely leave anything, other than huge piles of crab leg shells.
One waiter who we became conversational with said that the staff rarely expects any gratuity from their Asian guests. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 72
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 9:32 am: | |
Babyturtlelover-Do you go to the one on Rte 10 in the Marshall's plaza up near Home Depot? We found that it is much nicer than the one before it on the westbound side that is in a little strip mall that has a tile store and next to a futon store. The one by Marshall's is nicely appointed and clean...the food very fresh and a nice assortment.
I tip $1.00 per person for 2 of us because I figure if I was alone I would tip a $1.00.
Hope you find something you like!
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babyturtlelover
Citizen
Username: Babyturtlelover
Post Number: 54
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 9:53 am: | |
BGS Yes we go to the one near Marshalls. We have been to the other one but I like this one so much better. The other one closed about a year ago. thanks for your help. |
us2inFL
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 1327
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 6:24 pm: | |
me thinks.... a buck is sorta cheap. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 76
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 4:12 pm: | |
us2inFL-We are talking about buffets here...there is no service of food...some clearing of dishes and bringing a soft drink. I think a dollar a person is quite sufficient. What do you suggest?
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luv2cruise
Citizen
Username: Luv2cruise
Post Number: 397
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 4:18 pm: | |
If you checked the above post, you will see that us2 posted 1.50-2.00 per person.
When we go to a buffet, we give 2.00 per person if the dirty dishes are cleared promptly and drinks are re-filled.
Like any other restaurant, it depends on the service we receive.
We once left a server 10.00. He was fantastic. Very attentive, etc. There were 4 of us. It's not a big deal to leave 2.50. It won't break me. |
villagenative
Citizen
Username: Villagenative
Post Number: 182
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:01 pm: | |
"It won't break me"--that's exactly what people choosing a buffet as their trip out for the week are thinking. YOU ARE PATHETIC! TIP stands for: to insure promptness....if you want good service you should pay for it. we know your 1-1.50 tiping type and sometimes wish we could SHTI in your food! Happy Eating! |
us2inFL
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 1328
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:10 pm: | |
BGS: We were regulars at the Royal Buffet and Grill pretty much from the day it opened. We had been going to Kevin's (the place a bit further west on Rt 10) until Royal opened. That's probably the reason Kevin's place is no longer in business.
We have been out of the area since April 04, but if I remember correctly, Royal was $10 weeknights and $13 weekends. A family of four, on a Friday night would total $58 with four dinners and four soft drinks.
I still think a four dollar tip (which amounts to 7%) is really chintzy.
PS: Do you tip beyond 15% for good service in a quality restaurant? |
Analog01
Citizen
Username: Analog01
Post Number: 133
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:45 pm: | |
If they clean up and bring drinks, I leave around 10%.
In a real restaurant, I generally tip more than 15%, usually around 20% if the service was snappy. |
Analog01
Citizen
Username: Analog01
Post Number: 134
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 5:49 pm: | |
Oh, Villagenative - TIP does NOT mean " to insure promptness".  Give it some thought, you leave the tip AFTER the work has been done, so how can that ensure promptness? Check out this site:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990317 |
luv2cruise
Citizen
Username: Luv2cruise
Post Number: 398
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 8:47 pm: | |
I have to laugh. What a proper name. Village"negative" sure has me beat. 
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bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1793
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 9:42 pm: | |
To assure good service in the future, tip well everywhere you go.
It's "served" me very well to tip highly, and if you can possibly lower yourself to the level of immigrant, college student, or anyone who must perorm this service for you - you would understand that they depend on tips for their living. Your perceived $1 per person X 4 equals $3 bucks an hour for your server (who never sits). Yes, you linger over your coffee (who pours this?) and delectables selected personally (you had to get up!?!??).
Sorry, if you've never done it, you don't understand it. But understand this: 15 percent is for average service. That means at LEAST 20 percent for above-average. Excellent deserves 100 percent, but realistically, throw a few bucks more onto the 20 percent. Waitstaff work as hard as you and I do and if they give you good service you should give them a good performance review: the tip.
Buffett style dining is unique and never exactly the same. Would you tip $1 per person for buffet service at Sunday brunch at the Essex House? |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 1893
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 10:04 am: | |
I'm with bets on this one. If the service is lackluster they get 15%, good service gets 20% and if they are especially accomodating to my son (i.e. bring food out that's not piping hot after our request to serve it cooler) they get 25%+. Most times I round up to the nearest dollar or even five dollars. Its the accountant in me.
Three receipts in my wallet - the average tip is 28%.
As an aside I think everyone should be forced to wait tables at one point in their lives. Good character builder. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 79
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 10:29 am: | |
us2infl-We always tip 20% in a restaurant where we are served a meal...There is a big difference between serving a meal and taking away dirty dishes. The wait staff has to take a drink and food order and ensure that the proper food, wine, soft drinks etc. and all the little extras that one ususally asks for, are brought to the table. May have to take additional orders for coffee and dessert, may have to bring "doggy bag" food back to table...a myriad of duties. That service commands a good tip in my book. I promise you that no server has ever called my tips chintzy.
I, too waited tables growing up and remember the nickles and pennies from college students who thought they were being funny.
It was a thrill to see any type of green on the table in the form of a tip in those days!!!!
ps- and Bets...there is no comparison between eating at the Essex House and at a chinese buffet.Even though the meal is buffet at Essex House you are still waited on throughout the meal and at a place like that I would imagine that you linger over your meal...that is a totally difference experience. |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1807
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 11:31 pm: | |
Exactly my point, BGS, but I think more than a $1 is appropriate, even in the Chinese buffet. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 84
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 9:11 am: | |
Bets-so now I think that it would be fun if we all met at the Royal Buffet and had dinner together and then we could discuss the fine art of tipping at that establishment while enjoying some crab legs!
:-) |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1813
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 11:44 am: | |
Yummm, crab legs! Where's Royal Buffet again? I like the place in the Essex Green shopping center, but can't remember the name. Signs of aging, I suppose. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 86
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 1:44 pm: | |
Royal Buffet is in the Marshalls strip mall on Rte 10 just before home Depot. Have never been to the one at Essex Green. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 7559
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 1:54 pm: | |
Miss Manners, who does extensive research, has debunked the myth that says "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." Besides the falsehood, it's also bad spelling of the word "ensure."
Her take on tipping is interesting. She concedes that it is a messed up system (not her term) that some types of workers rely on the whim of customers for their normal expected income. However, we, as customers, are powerless to change the system, and it is certainly not appropriate to undertip as a way of communicating our distaste to the management our displeasure with the system. So we do owe it to servers to tip them, because it's not a bonus, it's their salary.
With that said, I don't know what is appropriate at a buffet restaurant.
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