Why Tiping Is Important

The server is usually the second person we meet when we first enter a restaurant, after being seated by the host. The server is also the person who is to ensure we have excellent service. Many people eat out often and we may ask ourselves, “Do we leave a tip or not?” Why should we tip our server?” or there are only twelve of us so will $2.00 work?” We may not all agree with tipping, but we should tip. The average customer doesn’t realize how much a server makes hourly. We only see half of what our server is required to do. Servers deserve to be tipped more. Michael Lynn, a reporter, once stated “Tips are voluntary payments made to service providers after they have delivered a service product” (Lynn). Servers hourly wage is below minimum
Jeff Ecker, a reporter from the Daily Collegian, stated “I’ve heard it all when it comes to why students don’t tip. My favorite is not having the money for a tip” (Ecker). If we do not have enough money to tip then we could order take-out or go through the drive thru. Jennifer Jurkovich, a reporter from Nation’s Restaurant News, stated “Assuming people knew how to tip, then maybe forking out more money wouldn’t be so bad, but assume that at least 50 percent of the people out there seem to think 10 percent is acceptable” (Jurkovich). We should not waste our server’s time knowing we’re not going to tip when there is other options available. In conclusion, if we were to tip our servers more it could be beneficial for everyone such as the servers, customers and the restaurant. Considering that server’s hourly wage is below minimum wage we should be more considerate when we dine-in at a restaurant. If we are a party table and we decide to stay in the restaurant for a long amount of time, we need to make sure we leave a good tip to make up for the server’s loss of tables. We should also make sure we complain to the right person when something is wrong such as the cooks time or bad quality of the