You go to a restaurant and you enjoy the food.
Do you tip the waiter/waitress?
How much percentage of the total bill do you put down?
What are the bases of your tip, the quality of the food served, service offered …etc.
Should tip in the first place?
Do you feel guilty if you don't?

Depends.

If he/she has served me well then yeah, he deserves a tip and he'll get it. :)

But what is appropriate? Could you tell me interms of prcentage 'cause in some countries the tip is about 6% of the total bill minimum guys correct me if i'm wrong :confused:

You should tip 15% whether you liked the food or not as long as the service is good. Waiters get by on tips and even when restaurants include a service charge in the bill they never give that money to the waiters.

In Oman people are generally stingy when they tip. They go eat in expensive restaurants and then put a tip of 1 rial on a 50 rial bill. That's just not right.

...my father usually gives tips ( even when he fill petrol) ...

there is no a fixed ammout ..sometimes u can find a box..like in

Pizza Hut.........i think anything would be fine…just to

show that u appreciate their services....

Originally posted by mux
You should tip 15% whether you liked the food or not as long as the service is good. Waiters get by on tips and even when restaurants include a service charge in the bill they never give that money to the waiters.

In Oman people are generally stingy when they tip. They go eat in expensive restaurants and then put a tip of 1 rial on a 50 rial bill. That's just not right.
So for every 10 Rials i should atleast leave 1 1/2 Rials ok but i think that's too high for Omani poeple i would say 5% should be ok

i think you should always leave a tip, no matter what.....but the rate depends on the type of food you ate, the waiters attiude...etc
but you should never leave the place without leaving a tip that my moto...

When I go to a restaurant and enjoy the food:
Do you tip the waiter/waitress?
Yes.

How much percentage of the total bill do you put down?
I never calculated it by percentage, maybe UAE Dhs. 10.

What are the bases of your tip, the quality of the food served, service offered …etc.
For the service.

Should tip in the first place?
Yes, as compliment for the waiter/waitress who served me.

Do you feel guilty if you don't?
Yes I do.

I usually leave a tip when I eat at a restaurant. Hmm. Well if I spend about 14 rials on the food I'd leave around 1 rial..

umm..well it depends on the place..

if it is a high class restaurant, then we should leave at least 3 or 4 RO, but if its a normal restaurant they we should just leave 1 or 2 RO..

For example..in kargeen whenever i go there i give them a tip for 1 RO..and i think its too high for them sara7a..coz they take their tasks a9lan and they chare it to you in the bill...
that tip is just for the waiters, coz they serve u, plus a9lan they are taking their salaries...

And sara7a if the service is not that good and they are very lazy in the restaurant .. i dont put any tips..even BZ 100, i get angry at these ppl..they just wanna take tips without serving costumers

I usually tip in the restaurants and hotels around 10%.
But somehow I hesitate when the room service guy or the waiter
is Omani (I cannot predict their reaction!).

I do tip sometimes when the service is good and the waiter/waitress was good to me and smiling:) .

Once I went to a resturant in New York with friends and some couples. My friend's dad tipped $500 that is 192 Omani Rials :confused: That was ridicolus. The waitress was daaaaaaaaaaaamn happy. Isn't she lucky!! That is like her salary for 2 months if not more.

The tip in most countries is usually around 5-10%. My criteria for tipping is a helpful/cheerful waiter/waitress even if I didn't like the food because food is more to do with your taste rather than the restaurant's fault or something!

If it is an Omani I'd go for a higher tip!! That is because I feel proud of them for taking the job! However, I agree that many people are not sure what to do when it is Omanis because they wonder if they'll accept.... I think they do!

For example, I went to wash my car and paid 1 R.O but then when I went out the other side an Omani started to wipe my car so I gave him another 1R.O. (100% tip!!) Of course I won't efford to do that with a 50 R.O meal. But my tipping goes beyond 10% in very low paid job!

I tip my hairdresser..... so I think tipping is not only for restaurants! Even if someone helped you carry your things to the car from a Super market.

I don't think Omanis are stingy when tipping .... but I think tipping is an 'etiquette' and not everyone masters it!!! Afterall, it is not taught at school and you learn it if you are a traveller or your parents are travellers!

In the US the minimum wage is around $5.5 per hour (if I'm not mistake). It's the lowest you can pay a person to work. But when it comes to waiters you are allowed by law to pay them less than the minimum wage because they get tips. Most waiters are part timers who work around 6 hours a day and thus make around 700 to 1000 dollars a month on wages and the rest from tips.

However in some states they are required to pay an income tax based on their wage + their expected tip. What this means is that even if you don't tip a waiter they still have to pay tax on the amount you didn't tip. Which is why if the bill is very large and you don't tip the waiter ends up paying to serve you. I saw this on Oprah once many years ago when a waiter followed a customer outside a restaurant and shouted at a customer "thank you for making me pay to serve you" and the customer got pissed off. But it's true, when people in the US go out in a large group and order lots of food and wine the bill might come out to hundreds of dollars. If they put a small tip then the waiter would be paying a large amount of his/her income to compensate for your stinginess. 15% is the minimum acceptable tip. If you're feeling generous give more because these people live on tip, not on salary.

That said, there are countries like Malaysia and Singapore where restaurant bills have "Tipping not encouraged" written on them. I still tip.

Originally posted by mux
In the US the minimum wage is around $5.5 per hour (if I'm not mistake). It's the lowest you can pay a person to work. But when it comes to waiters you are allowed by law to pay them less than the minimum wage because they get tips. Most waiters are part timers who work around 6 hours a day and thus make around 700 to 1000 dollars a month on wages and the rest from tips.

However in some states they are required to pay an income tax based on their wage + their expected tip. What this means is that even if you don't tip a waiter they still have to pay tax on the amount you didn't tip. Which is why if the bill is very large and you don't tip the waiter ends up paying to serve you. I saw this on Oprah once many years ago when a waiter followed a customer outside a restaurant and shouted at a customer "thank you for making me pay to serve you" and the customer got pissed off. But it's true, when people in the US go out in a large group and order lots of food and wine the bill might come out to hundreds of dollars. If they put a small tip then the waiter would be paying a large amount of his/her income to compensate for your stinginess. 15% is the minimum acceptable tip. If you're feeling generous give more because these people live on tip, not on salary.

That said, there are countries like Malaysia and Singapore where restaurant bills have "Tipping not encouraged" written on them. I still tip. Thanks for sharing those valuble info mux

Originally posted by mux
There are countries like Malaysia where restaurant bills have "Tipping not encouraged" written on them.
I noticed so 2.

Originally posted by Azure

You go to a restaurant and you enjoy the food.
Do you tip the waiter/waitress?
How much percentage of the total bill do you put down?
What are the bases of your tip, the quality of the food served, service offered …etc.
Should tip in the first place?
Do you feel guilty if you don't?


Well it really depends - it can me 1 or 2biz ... it really depends how much is my change i won;t tip that much ... its out of being polite for that person who served us for the day!

So who tips and who doesnt? and why?

For all you 'yes' people, how much do you usually tip?

How much are you supposed to tip, anyways?

I normally tip 10-15% (in the UK or Oman). In the US the situation is different; for it to count the same I guess you should increase it to 20%, and that's what I went for when I visited that country. I never take any notice of the "12% service included" or whatever on the bill. That's just an annoyance; a sneaky addition to your bill and the profit margin - no help, compliment or acknowledgement to the waiter.

10% would be good .
obviously he needs to deserve it .
I encountered many rude waiters/ waitresses, they didnt get a red cent.
but now a days , a service charge is included in the bill , so I dont think we need to tip !

Frankly.... I only tip if the Restaurant doesnt charge Service Tax.
Coz I deem that's a tip itself.

I tip when I feel the service was exceptional and the waiter went out of his/her way to make me comfortable. Otherwise I look at the bill to see if there is a service charge then I don’t tip at all….most of the time I am confused as to what would be considered as enough tip!?!?!

If service charge is included then I don't tip. If it isn't then I always calculate 10% of the bill and leave that as a tip. The only other time I don't tip at all is if the service is particularly bad.

I always tip..even when there is service charge.. It just doesnt seem right to me to give them back the bill empty. how much? .. depends on the service i guess.

I always tip..even when there is service charge.. It just doesnt seem right to me to give them back the bill empty. how much? .. depends on the service i guess.


Iam the same... Except if the service was REALLY bad and they were rude.. Then they dont even get a smile.

Yeah, I 4got...
When baizaz R left, I give em as tips..
But if the balance are Rials I take em away :p

are you sure they don't get service charge???

if it's Omani i'll tip big time

if not then if there's service charge no tip (was told that they get money form there)

but if the person is really friendly then i tip

I tip everyone who comes to me in hawasna nice ppl there

OK, here's another question. How many of you tip Omanis? I don't know why but I'm always soooo embarrassed to give an Omani a tip. When it's at a restaurant it's alright but when I go to the car wash, for example, it feels awkward to give the Omani who's just scrubbed my car clean 200 Baisas. Do you think they really appreciate the tips or do they also get kinda embarrassed to recieve tips from other Omanis??

I tip Omanies wherever i see them and i make sure it's more then 200 bz

i make sure it's more then 200 bz
Really? Regardless of how much the bill is? So if you went to a car wash and paid R.O. 1 to have your car washed, how much would you tip the dude who wipes your car? (Is it rude to ask??)

well bout 400

ask who me or him?

him i'd guess rude me nah

I tip the ppl at hawsna 200 even if i ordered smthin that costs 150

I tip more if the service and the food is really good...However, I tip at other times too..I just feel like I have to...don't know why, maybe because I was brought up in an environment where both my parents used to tip everytime and everywhere...
Also, I don't know about other countries, but in the UK, waiter's wages are amidst the lowest...so tipping feels right to me!