At first I want to apologise in advance as some may find this post not that much convincing. If I am wrong, I am totally open to discuss. My thoughts are not always perfect.
I am gonna start with a little story here. Once it was raining and a man became very hungry He wanted to go to a fine restaurant to have some soup and also Khicuri( Bengali food). The restaurant was not that much far from him home. So he took a rickshaw (Bengali vehicle) to go to the restaurant. After reaching the restaurant he gave the rickshaw puller 30 cents. The rickshaw puller said with respect that it was raining and he didn't got many customer and also he got drenched in the rain. It would be very kind of him to give some more cents. He man became kinda rude and told it's the exact money and he won't give any. I am gonna go a bit extreme, he actually got angry in the chit chat and a bit arguement and slapped the rickshaw-puller. He proudly entered the restaurant winning over the argument and saving a few cents. Then he ordered the food, ate and while paying bill he gave half a dollar more and told the waiter to keep and change and returned home.
I think some of you got from the story what I am going to say in the article. And I don't know if here is someone who is doing any part time job in a restaurant or not.
So I am gonna start from the beginning here. What does "Keep the change" actually means. In short, when you are getting a minimal amount in return, then some people don't want to take that small changes. That's why this term is actually used. It's generally used while paying bill in any shop or restaurant. In restaurant, some actually pay tips with the bills saying "Keep the change" or some may give it directly saying "Here's your tip".
But why do you tip a waiter/waitress actually?? Is it actually for thanking them or saving your own dignity there and following the tradition?
Everyday you go to many places, buy many staffs from store. Go to shopping and buy fruits and vegetable. Believe me or not sometimes people tells them to reduce a bit cost or to give a little bit discount. For example: Some went to buy a carrot, the shopkeeper said 30 cents per KG but the buyer continuously said he would not give more than 25 cents. It's very very common in life and there's nobody who will deny this fact. Forget about the discount, think you bought some fresh vegetables with the proper value. How much did you tip them? How often do you tip a shopkeeper for serving you?
May be it's fair to speak against tipping a waiter/waitress. They are serving you food. And also consider your reason is that you are happy with them and not saving your dignity.But why they are there in the restaurant? Why they are caller waiter/waitress and what's there job??My dad never got any tip after fixing a file? It was his job and he got a wage for that. Same goes for them too. They are performing their job and they get a healthy amount of wage by the shop owner. This trend is getting stronger and stronger. Once they never asked for tips. If anyone give them, they keep but if anyone don't give, they just moved on. But now they are speaking back like everyone is giving tips and why you shouldn't. Yesterday I faced the same situation and my friend had to give some. It was like hijacking.
But see, everyone is serving you. Everyone. I am keeping family and personal life aside and talking abiut professional life. Your teachers are standing, talking laud, writing on board, preparing topics and paper. You tip them after every class? Then you are buying vegetable. They have to go to a lot of trouble to grow those crops, protecting them, collecting them and manufacturing them, selling them. They doesn't deserve your thank you tip after every buy. The rickshaw-puller in that story deserved slap instead of a tip for his service. But a waiter/waitress deserve every time though they are kept for providing services and getting a wage for that.
But their effort and serve doesn't make us happy. Only the effort of waiter/waitress does.
Some may compare this with tipping articles and ask now, why do we tip articles then? We get the amount from the rewarder( Well I don't believe that completely but I am happy) but still why we give tip. Read Cash is a community and in this community, we all are neighbours. And neighbours share happiness with each other and stuffs so strengthen their bond. We share a lot of thing with each other to strengthen our bonds and give a hope that "Carry on, you are doing good and I am here to support you." It's not the same. When you like an article, then you give tip. When you want to give someone support to write more, then you tip. It's not mandatory and the person doesn't ask too. It strengthens bond. So please misunderstand. Both are different. Here we put our hands together to support each other.
In the end, I am not gonna say don't tip. I want to say that a waiter is serving you but he is getting good cloths, good and tasty foods, and also wages for it. But if you want to give a thank you tip, I support you. But giving tip to saving our dignity is a bad idea. And also want to say to recognise all's effort if you want to recognise them actually. It's unfair if you are recognising a waiter's effort but not the one's who are serving the best, it's not fair. But you can't do both the things, I just want to say
Well, that's for it. If I am wrong, please enlighten me. Thank you very much😊😊.
It nice