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bring liquor in plastic bottles and you wont have to worry about spending lots of money on beer or a tip. I say if you tipped every couple of times you went that would be respectable.
You just paid, minimum, $225 to just get INTO the concert. You have spent likely upwards of another $200 on supplies, tent, gas, etc. If you buy a $6 beer, tip them a buck. You can afford it - and if you say you can't, you're lying.
NEVER tip with change unless it's part of a bigger tip - like I'll buy a few drinks and it comes to $11.50 or something? I'll tip the bartender $2.50. If you give JUST change you're a complete dicknose.
never tip a quarter that is rude if i t were me i would throw it back at you. if you can afford the tip do it because it it a nice gesture if you cant try to use the same server repeatedly. If you gave them a dollar for pouring two beers i would say they were paid well for there thirty seconds of work.
Post by Guiitar Man on May 28, 2010 15:14:02 GMT -5
I think under normal situations tipping just change is rude...but at a festival where there are long lines at the beer stand, I think a quarter is fine...just my 2 cents...pun intended...
Post by lordrockinhood on May 28, 2010 15:24:23 GMT -5
I have a festival rule, $1 for every beer/round/food item I buy, $2 or $3 if they were particularly helpful or friendly to me, I am on vacation and I am a guest in the town, and I am simply glad such great people are there serving me everything I could want and need.
Local organizations seem to run a lot of the food/drink stands, and based on the signs on a lot of the tip buckets , most of the tip money tends to go to things like school fund raisers and other good local causes anyway, so, all the more reason to tip more and not less! IMO
I volunteered as a "bartender" in the Broo'ers Festival tent for two years. It is actually staffed by a local dance studio and all the TIP jar money scattered throughout at each microbrewery section goes to this one dance group. The individual "bartenders" do not receive anything - except a FREE ticket into one of the best music festivals around.
And wow, you're like a walking, talking infomercial to turn people away from Pearl Jam and Ohio State, aren't you? Before you started posting here I quite liked Pearl Jam and was indifferent towards OSU, now I find myself wishing that Eddie Vedder falls down a mine shaft or that Columbus is infested with locusts
I have a festival rule, $1 for every beer/round/food item I buy, $2 or $3 if they were particularly helpful or friendly to me, I am on vacation and I am a guest in the town, and I am simply glad such great people are there serving me everything I could want and need.
Local organizations seem to run a lot of the food/drink stands, and based on the signs on a lot of the tip buckets , most of the tip money tends to go to things like school fund raisers and other good local causes anyway, so, all the more reason to tip more and not less! IMO
Maybe Im crazy, cuz I am all about getting my 20% in every single time. But at a festival? Tipping? Are you kidding? I am not gonna tip a bartender that will be replaced with someone else by the next time I come around to that beer tent/stand. Half the point of tipping is to develop a relationship with ur bartender so he gets to you faster when you need something. AND, that beer is only worth like a dollar, why should I inflate my tip too... Im outtie.
It sucks to spend the extra money but you gotta tip! I throw a dollar on top of whatever I buy at a festival, food-wise. Okay, well maybe not at the grilled cheese stand...
Maybe Im crazy, cuz I am all about getting my 20% in every single time. But at a festival? Tipping? Are you kidding? I am not gonna tip a bartender that will be replaced with someone else by the next time I come around to that beer tent/stand. Half the point of tipping is to develop a relationship with ur bartender so he gets to you faster when you need something. AND, that beer is only worth like a dollar, why should I inflate my tip too... Im outtie.
So do you not tip if you just get one beer at a bar? Or if you get coffee at a coffee shop? What about if you're running a tab? You won't be building a relationship so there's no point in tipping, according to your logic. Why does the service/tip relationship not exist at a festival?
Sure, throw them a buck or 2 every once and awhile.... but don't try to compare a beer tent at a festie to a bar/restaurant. That's just dumb. I tip no less than 20% at a bar/rest.... but turning around and pouring a $6 bud light into a tiny plastic cup doesn't qualify as bartending. Many of the people who service you don't even get to keep the tips. If you are tipping for service... then I assume you will be tipping all the food vendors, taxis, merch vendors, ticket takers and everyone else that serviced you. Unless their service does not warrant your tip. I've spent the better part of the last 10 years waiting tables and bartending ... so I'm not just being a dick.... just realistic. If you've got the extra money, then by all means.... donate it to Bonnaroo(who owns all the beer tents). They would love to have the extra cash.
I tip everywhere. I tip the guy at the movie theater who pours me a beer. I tip the guy who make my falafel wrap at 4 AM when I'm coming home from work. And yes, at Roo, I tipped everyone. I also ask them if they get it or the festival gets it or they split tips - because that matters. I tip every single time. Last week I had a car pick me up from work and I had no cash and asked if they were picking me up afterwards - they said yes. I hooked them up with an appropriate tip thusly. Working the last 12 years in the service industry has made me soft. That said, REALLY shitty service will make me not tip in a heartbeat. Very good service will make me overtip.
Tip the taxi driver at Roo. Shit, if I were in GA, I'd try to befriend them and get their number - give them a big tip at the start of the festival in the hopes that you can text them when you need a ride. That's worth a tip.
I got a bottled water at a stand a couple of years ago, planning to fill it up at the refill stations, and the woman took and kept the cap. I asked her if I could have the cap, because I planned on using it. She looks at me and says, "How about a tip first?" So I placed the tip I was going to give her, back into my pocket and gave her a finger instead. Other than that, yea, a buck or two per round.
Many of the people who service you don't even get to keep the tips. If you are tipping for service... then I assume you will be tipping all the food vendors, taxis, merch vendors, ticket takers and everyone else that serviced you. Unless their service does not warrant your tip.
Yes, I tip the food vendors (except the woman at the root beer float place who would not sell me a root beer float sans ice cream, and then I over-tipped the Ben & Jerry's folks who hooked me up and told me to come back for a refill if I wanted) and taxis (I camp in BFE and it's a huge service. I tip more if they're chatty.).
I didn't tip at the gate when they searched my vehicle and scanned my ticket. Actually, the thought never occurred to me. Then again, I don't tip the ticket-taker at the movie theatre or at the gate at the airport. I don't know that I see that as a tipped position. (I do tip ushers and curb-side baggage handlers, though.)
Similarly, I don't tip the vendors who are selling tee shirts and such. Then again, I don't tip at the counter at Target. Does anybody?
And the festival organizers don't keep the tips, either the employees do or the stated charity that they are working for does. Bonnaroo gets a commission on revenue, I believe, which you are providing whenever you buy anything so they're already getting your money.
Def tip your taxi driver. In fact...overtip. He doesn't just pour liquid in a cup and take your money. He has to actually coexist with your ass for more than 30 seconds.
Post by lordrockinhood on May 29, 2010 20:06:03 GMT -5
When the tip jar sign says something along the lines of, "all tips help support the Manchester Fire Dept," or, fill in the "help support" blank "_____" well, knowing that your tip dollars are going directly into the local economy of the people who invite you back each year? If you don't have the money, you don't have the money, and nobody is going to really judge you for it, but otherwise, I don't understand why this is even a question? The #1 reason we are asked back to the Farm every year, is because we help support the local economy. No better way to make sure that your money goes where it is supposed to, than through something as simple as a tip, I think. These aren't full time bartenders at the hottest trendy club in NYC selling you $20 drinks and pulling down hundreds or thousands a night for opening bottles you know.
These are the people in OUR community, for 4 amazing days a year at least, and the fact they put up with us? Like us? It deserves a freaking dollar here and there. You don't know how strongly i feel about this.
Just to play devils advocate here, do you tip at McDonalds? I'm all for tipping someone who is putting effort into serving, but at a beer tent where they're taking your order, and filling a cup from one of 5 choices, or handing you a bottle (after stealing your cap), how is that any different than counter service at McDonalds? If a bartender is mixing drinks, or you're taking space at their bar, of course you tip, but at a cash and carry beer tent? I'm not even arguing about the food vendors where they're making your food, although you could argue that since they get to set the prices on their food, if they're not making enough profit on the price alone, they're doing something wrong.
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