Tipping At Bars

When you go out for drinks, how much do you generally tip the bartender? I usually tip $1 per drink, but some people think that's crazy. Those are usually the people who don't tip at all.

 

10 - 15% on the total bill at the end of the night. 20% if the service was exceptional, and less than 10% if the service was poor.

If I go up to the bar to order a drink, then I'll usually tip $1.00.

I once tipped 100% on a round of drink orders at the bar. I may or may not have thrown a piece of fruit at the bartender, though, and so I think that 100% tip was much deserved.

 

I think it also depends a lot on what you order. I normally order only beer, so I think $1 is reasonable. But for cocktails and mixed drinks then $2-3 at least.

When I go to restaurants, I always tip 20%... unless the service really sucks.

 

Why don't they just pay there staff properly

Then there's no reason for tips

It's a scam, you have I idea how much the staff get paid

With tips, front of house gets more than back of house

Why exactly?

 

What kind of mixed drinks do you like?

 

Generally $1 per drink, although a recent time I went out, some of the bars were using those Square Registers with Ipads and it forces a percentage tip like 15% - 20%. I might have to No Tip a couple drinks in, if I happen to encounter those again and don't have Dollar Bills.

 

I don't drink mixed drinks, though my girlfriend occasionally does. I was saying IF I or anyone else was to order a mixed drink, then it should be a $2-3 tip. I only drink beer when I go out. Occasionally I might have scotch whiskey or cognac, but 95% of the time it's just beer.

 

Because being a bartender is hard work, especially when it gets busy. If you were ever a bartender then you would know.

 

I am waiting for Themnax to respond to this thread telling us why he doesn't go to bars, and why going to bars is stupid.

 

I thought this said tripping at bars; thought of sending op a ticket to come hang out.

 

25 - 30% of the total bill usually. If I only have a drink or two and the tab is just a few dollars I'll tip 50% sometimes.

 

Wow.

 

Yeah, but the guy that unloads the kegs doesn't get tips, the cleaners don't.

Why just front of house?

You don't tip the poor schmuck at McDonald's on $5 an hour, but you tip some bartender who for all you know could be making more some nights in tips than you make.

 

my mom was a bartender and she did every job you mention above. so yes she deserves a tip. (i know its different in different countries but in this one bartenders and waitresses work for tips)

as for the percentage... i dont tip by percentage when i am drinking. why should the bartender get a $3 tip because i like an expensive beer? it is the same amount of work for them to open up a bottle of bud as it is for them to open up a bottle of the great divides yeti chocolate stout.
thats why i go by $1 a beer and then i change it according to service.
if i am eating also it depends on what i eat and how much i drink. usually 15-20% depending on the ration of drinks or growlers or service.

 

Yeah I'm probably an overly excessive tipper but I like to tip well. I've never worked in the service industry but I've had enough friends over the years who worked tip based jobs and I know a good tip can make someone's night, and I know for every lavish tipper there is some asshole who stifffs them because they don't understand servers make $2 an hour coughVGcough

Also I used to go to this bar that would ring a bell whenever someone got a good tip, so I am also pavlov's dog

 

Not that I go to bars anymore, but I generally tip 15-20% at restaurants.

When I did go to bars, and if I'm ordering drink-by-drink, rather than a tab, I'll be sure to make my initial tip larger.

 

$1 per beer normally.

in restaurants, or if i'm keeping a tab, i usually do $5 or ~20%, whichever is greater.

several of my friends are shitty tippers, and i've publicly called them out on it a few times. i've worked for tips before, i feel for those people.

yeah, i don't know what kind of fancy establishments vg frequents, but where i go the bartender is the only employee most of the time, and takes care of all that stuff.

 

if im sitting down ill usually give them a few bucks but if im just at the counter trying to get a drink ill usually just let those fuck faces keep the change ive already been waiting 20 minutes to get two beers im not gonna stand around any longer waiting for change

 

Most beers go for $5-6. So a dollar is about a 15%-20% tip give or take. I don't do mixed drinks that often as you can never trust if a bar tender is gonna make it taste like a sugar bomb detonated in my mouth.

 

Why would I tip someone for doing a job I'm perfectly capable of doing myself?

I'll tip 10-15% a service. Sometimes nothing. If the service wasn't good, no tip given. You want tips? You earn them with respect to your customers.

When I'm somewhere I frequently visit I'll start a tab, that's how they get tips, but I won't tip for single drinks, unless they're going to hand back shrapnel change I'm not interested in, then by all means, go nuts and have the tip.