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Quotes About Gratuity

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.
~ Kevin McCarthy
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
~ Kelly Ripa
Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
~ Mary Lou Williams
In Canada, good waitresses are tipped well. I learnt that the harder you work, the more money you make.
~ Katherine Ryan
So don't applaud. Just send me the check.
~ Broderick Crawford
THAT A FREE MAN IS A SOVEREIGN, BUT THAT A SOVEREIGN CANNOT TAKE "TIPS.
~ William Graham Sumner
if one thinks about the relationship between nature and grace in terms of natural human desires in an Aristotelian sense and what would fulfill them, human states become the focus for discussion in ways that hamstring efforts to show the gratuity of grace.
~ Kathryn Tanner
Also, if you bring up ten Cuban midnight sandwiches, with extra pickles, Mr. Sevastyan will tip you extravagantly. Please put that gratuity in with the total. Excellent. Thank you for your help!
~ Kresley Cole
Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don't tip, as a service charge is typically included in the bill. Make sure you're not over-tipping by doing research before traveling.
~ Gillian Tans
Si te parabas a buscarla, podías encontrar belleza casi en cualquier parte; sin embargo, muchas veces, la batalla para llegar al final de cada jornada te hacía olvidar que existía ese lujo, y que era gratis
~ Robert Galbraith
Las prímulas y los paisajes, explicó, tienen un grave defecto: son gratuitos. El amor a la Naturaleza no da quehacer a las fábricas.
~ Aldous Huxley
As flores do campo e as paisagens têm um grave defeito: são gratuitas. O amor à natureza não estimula a atividade de nenhuma fábrica.
~ Aldous Huxley
The word 'tip' comes from the mid-eighteenth-century innkeepers' sign 'to insure promptness.' Patrons deposited a few coins on the table before ordering a meal or drinks and were served faster.
~ Dorothea Johnson
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
~ Carl Rogers
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
~ Paul Lynde
I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.
~ Murray Walker
I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.
~ John Fante
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.
~ Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
~ R. Kelly
Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.
~ Phil Donahue
In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.
~ Zach Braff
I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
~ Curtis Granderson