Wilson Valdez is Reportedly Not a Big Tipper
Wilson Valdez, an infielder for the Phillies, made $400,000 in 2010, and he’s slated to make $560,000 this year. Yet according to Dan Gross of the Philly Daily News, Valdez is a very, very bad tipper:
tipped only 50 cents on two drinks he paid for with a $100 bill for him and a pal just before last call at Time (1315 Sansom) after last Thursday’s late-ending game against the Cubs.
Don’t you love the dichotomy between a $100 bill (look at me, I’m a high roller!) and the cheapness ($0.50 tip)? [Daily News]
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June 16th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Dear Wilson Valdez,
If the next drink you have tastes like pee. This is the reason.
/s/
Every bartender in the nation.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:51 PM
So we’re starting the porn fetishes talk again???
June 16th, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Maybe the bill came to $9.50, and the bartender gave him back $0.50, 4 $20′s, and 1 $10. What’s he gonna do, tip a $10 bill?
Much ado about nothing.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:51 PM
DICK.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
So we’re starting the porn fetishes talk again???
Only if yelnik will make an appearance. I have a feeling he could take it to the next level.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Roy Williams sees nothing wrong with this.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Maybe the bill came to $9.50, and the bartender gave him back $0.50, 4 $20′s, and 1 $10. What’s he gonna do, tip a $10 bill?
Ask for one of those $20s to be a $10, a $5, and give $1s?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Also not a Big Tipper: Brett Favre
June 16th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
I just caught up on the comments last thread, and pretty I couldn’t handle the next level. There was one description I just couldn’t come to terms with anyone wanting to do. And for the sake of fragile eyes, I won’t repeat the term (which is descriptive enough on it’s own)
June 16th, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Why is everyone in MLB taking Joe Maddon’s lead and wearing those horrendous glasses?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
+4″
June 16th, 2011 at 12:55 PM
It’s on the bartender to do that.
But we can’t judge how bad the tip was without knowing how much the tab was. 2 drinks could have been $30 or $6. Who knows.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:56 PM
maybe the service sucked?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
So we’re starting the porn fetishes talk again???
Anyone ever been a part of an Appalachin Mud Bath?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Don’t you love people that made low seven figures but keep trying to scam the cable company in order to get HBO?
June 16th, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Tiger and LeBron reportedly the worst.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Did I just see what you did there? If so, take as many points as you want.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:58 PM
I agree
June 16th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
He could have bought two Bud Light bottles for $4.50, waited 10 minutes to get them, and dealt with a dickhead bartender.
Who cares that he paid with a $100 bill?
Or any context at all, for that matter?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Scottie Pippen was a notoriously bad tipper in the 90s in Chicago. Waitstaff would avoid him by the end of his tenure.
Got a feeling his bills in Chicago probably just went up the past month or so, too.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Is Weiner a big tipper?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:00 PM
I hope he gets pegged
June 16th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Every bar tender in the city of chicago gives you change back in $1′s. I’ve never not gotten a single back on a drink that requires change in the 10 years I’ve lived here.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
$2? That’s all a guy has to slip up by nowadays to get a mention?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
After re-reading that, I agree with the rest of the people here. He just paid with a $100. What Mike said is entirely plausible.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:01 PM
I’m sure all he had on him was the change he got back from one $100 bill and nothing else to tip with.
Valdez is off the hook!
June 16th, 2011 at 1:02 PM
i mean, personally, i feel like a twat if i leave a shitty tip. but it’s the tipper’s prerogative.
/worked in restaurants for almost 10 years, understand that waiters live off tips…but if you give truly great service, you’ll almost always get tipped well
June 16th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Unless a bartender is a raging prick who is slower than Drew Bledsoe, you tip at least $1 per drink.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
+stolen PPV
June 16th, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Tips aren’t guaranteed but earned, shitty service and they’ll get change from me as well…sadly the credit card has taken some of the fun out of getting your message across since writing out 0.50 isn’t the same as leaving coins on the table
June 16th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
As somebody who worked in the industry, absolutely. Normally tip between 25 and 30% for anything above average.
Once you’re outta college and have a decent job, time to pay up for all those times you screwed delivery drivers and the waitstaff so long as the service is good.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Even for a $1 drink? $2 drink? $3 drink?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:04 PM
#27 is spot on. I’ve probably got about 6 years of waitstaff service under my belt. I never leave shitty tips unless your service is unquestionably bad. The worst tip you can leave a server is a single penny. It’s worth than nothing at all.
My friends make fun of me when I give cabbies a $10 for a $7 and change cab ride.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Always tip big when you’re at a packed bar, and it takes 10 min for the tender to get you. The waits will get shorter.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Super late on this, but that picture of the couple getting it on in the midst of a riot is awesome.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Especially for those. If you’re drinking in a metropolitan setting and you’re getting those prices, it’s a special. Help the guy/gal out.
I always leave a buck after getting a drink. Always. It is much easier to just open up a tab now though with your card.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Yep, definitely. If I buy 4 drinks I’m tipping $4, maybe $5.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
Great point. Tip extra nice on the first round and they’ll be attentive the rest of the time you’re there.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:07 PM
I mean I usually leave a buck no matter what too, just because its easier. But Im not gonna fault anyone who actually follows the 20% rule to the T.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:08 PM
He should’ve left the entire change from the $100. It’s probably half his per diem anyway.
/loves spending other people’s money
June 16th, 2011 at 1:08 PM
I hate opening a tab with a card. I have had to come back too many times the next day.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Anyone else jonesin’ for college football?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:09 PM
One of my friend’s grandparents used to go into restaurants with a stack of $1s, and anytime the waiter screwed up, he would deliberately look at the guy, and slowly take a dollar off the top.
Even if it’s an urban legend that never happened, I try to use this philosophy in regards to tipping. I always start high, but you need to work to keep it here.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Exactly. It’s a give-and-get. Also the pathway to the occasional complimentary shot or two.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:10 PM
If you sit at a table with 3 buddies, and the four of you drink 20 beers total while watching a game at $2/per, there’s no way in hell you would tip $20 at the end of the game.
But because you save them the trouble and walk yourself up to the bar, you’re gonna tip $1/per beer?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Very true. If Im at the bar to watch football on a Sunday, we open a tab anyway and we definitely tip 20% most the time. I dont see why its different if you pay for a drink one at a time.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:13 PM
TIME doesn’t have any beers priced under $5, and I suspect they don’t have any mixed drinks under $8. It’s a crappy tip for sure. But it’s not even remotely newsworthy. If he tipped $2 on a $200 tab, fine, let’s hear about that. But one bad tip on a couple of drinks…a waste of our time to hear about.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
I always follow the 20% rule at restaurants when eating, but bars and drinks are a totally different animal.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
This.
I normally tip around 15-20%, unless the service is shit, where they get a dollar.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Oh, and TIME is a pretty cool bar in a pretty crappy block. Definitely in top 3 or 4 in Philly in terms of whiskey selection.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Exactly. It’s a give-and-get. Also the pathway to the occasional complimentary shot or two.
It’s also the pathway to getting poured a Dewar’s on the rocks with a generous scotch to ice ratio in an actual rocks glass rather than one of those thimbles they use normally.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Why? Unless the bartender is going all Tom Cruise in Cocktail and putting on a show for you.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
I feel like I’m watching Curb You Enthusiasm with this tip discussion.
/new season next month!!
June 16th, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Nick P is a bust of a tipper.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:19 PM
Oh, and bad tippers are the worst, because they usually demand a shit load of work be done for their meal. Whenever I waited on a needy table, I knew it was going to be a shit tip.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:20 PM
I would base it on the level of work…mixed drinks (especially blended) are much different than opening a bottle.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:20 PM
And they are the types that constantly remind you that your service will affect your tip.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:20 PM
maybe the drinks sucked and were watered down.
maybe the service sucked.
probably should have left at a buck or two, though.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Shatner, did you get my Louisville recommendations the other day?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:22 PM
I worked at Olive Garden for 3 years, and made bank- I always tip 20% at a restaurant if the service was solid. More like 25% if it was excellent.
But if I order a beer for $3 at a bar, and you bend slightly at the waste, put it on the bar and twist it open, I’ll tip you a dollar… but I won’t tip you another dollar until my 3rd or 4th beer. Mixed drinks are a different story, because those actually require some sort of effort and “service”.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Yep, $1 each time for them opening up a $3.50 bottle of beer just doesn’t make sense so if I’m buying one at a time will tip 3 out of 4 or every other…they put some work into a cocktail and they’ll be rewarded for the effort
June 16th, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Yea thanks. I wrote them down. I’m not going to be in Louisville until a few months from now.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Did someone call for a big tipper?
/Greg Oden’d
//oh you said tipper, not tip
June 16th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Butters gets it.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Waited tables all through school. 20% is a standard tip for a meal and a buck for drink if paying cash.
/Thank God for usopen.com
June 16th, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Same way. Tip karma, brah.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:26 PM
I also admit that most places I go to ask if I want to start a tab. I’ve only been to a few places that make me pay by the drink, I felt rushed and never went back.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Everyone should be a server or bartender once in their life. You need to know what those people go through on a daily basis. I refuse to go out to eat with people who are poor tippers or use a fucking tip card that they keep in their wallet.
/has a friend like this
I love the movie Waiting by the way.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:28 PM
No. I did the restaurant thing for one awful summer, so I tip well.
But I hate people telling this man should how he should spend his money just because he makes the MLB minimum.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Homer, on his side, is buying some kind of Jamaican hat.
Clerk: Dude, karma.
Homer: What?
Clerk: [pointing at the tip jar] Karma, karma.
[pause]
Homer: [neuter] Oh, I get it. [walks away]
June 16th, 2011 at 1:29 PM
One of the few sane things I’ve taken away from Jim Rome – his view on tipping. Start out at 25% and deduct if something happens during your meal that warrants it (bad service, order mixup, wrong drinks, cleanliness, promptness). It generally works out well. When I used to have a full time job and went out to eat a couple times a week, I always tipped well and if it was a place where I was a regular, I’d tip extra for some of the girls I personally knew who bust their ass 6-7 days a week
June 16th, 2011 at 1:30 PM
I have a friend that used to tip 5% no matter what, busting out change. I refuse to go anywhere with him that involves a sitdown restaurant or bar.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Did you happen to punch him in the face? I would
June 16th, 2011 at 1:32 PM
Oh, and don’t overtip the waitress that’s cute but screws up everything or is horrible at her job. She’s not going to sleep with you just because you gave her that extra ten percent.
/The Extra Ten Percent is a good porn name
June 16th, 2011 at 1:34 PM
We’ve thought about it. Instead we just cut off eating with him. Also the same guy who would ask everyone pay equally when he had the most expensive meal.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:35 PM
The cuter the waitress, the lower the service. Give me your average lookin waitress that provides stellar service over the piece of ass who would rather flaunt it than bring you your damn food.
/fuck you applebees
June 16th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
If I’m out with a group of friends, I make sure everyone pays for what they give. None of this pay equally bullshit unless everyone got the same damn thing
June 16th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
“You obviously need this more than me”
/What are you gonna mail me a fuckin sundae?!?!
June 16th, 2011 at 1:36 PM
/nods, clinks highball
June 16th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
My mom is almost 80, and she loves going out to eat, and tips like it’s 1963. I always have to sneak cash to the server.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
i personally absolutely fucking hate whenever any group does this…it’s shitty to make people who ordered less pay more so the people who ordered more can pay less. the only exception is going out to someone’s b-day or anniversary, etc where someone isn’t paying.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:40 PM
It’s also the same guy who took part in this:
It was my friend Mike’s Bday, and he had to work that day. He was a waiter at Outback. All of us (ten people) went to the restaurant and made him wait on us as half a joke and half him getting a huge tip. This guy bought a bowl of soup and didn’t tip anything.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Wait.. people actually do this? That has to be a sick joke.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Well it was either a bowl of soup or some sort of really cheap appetizer. All i remember was being really pissed off.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:41 PM
I HATE people like this. I’m not going to sit here and wait for you to calculate out exactly what you drank/ate and give me the exact change. Unless you got a salad and everyone else ate lobster, it’s not going to kill you to throw in a similar amount to what everyone else owes.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:44 PM
i guess if it’s a party of more than 6 but if it’s less than 6, it’s really not that big of a deal.
/team throw in a $20 and let the cards fall where they may
June 16th, 2011 at 1:45 PM
The problem with the split-the-check system is that occasionally there’s a frequent abuser, like my friend. Then the fun stops.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Nope, happens all the time. I refuse to go out and eat with people that do this though. Thankfully all of my friends insist on paying for what they ordered and factor in tip and tax when tossing money out. That’s also one thing people forget to take into account, the tax. THey will say they ordered an &8.50 burger and $5 beer and toss $15 out thinking that $1.50 covers the tip. Well no, that barely covers the tax cheapskate.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:50 PM
I will not tip $3 because you opened a bottle of beer. I do have a drink I like to get made a certain way (gin + sprite + roses lime juice, straight up) and will always tip well (30-40%), even if they don’t do a great job with it, because it is extra work.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:50 PM
there’s always 1 or two people in a group, not always the same ones, who decide to order something more expensive than everyone else, be it the extra mixed drink, the dessert, the appetizers, the full rack of ribs or NY steak…
then they end up paying less for their whole meal while everyone else pays more for theirs if split equally.
bullshit, cheap ass motherfuckers…they’re normally the people who pipe up saying “let’s split it evenly, it’s easier.”
June 16th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
This guy gets it.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Split all the checks. Problem solved. I’ll give the waiter another buck or two for the extra work.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Or nowadays even if it comes on one big bill they can have each person’s stuff lumped together…any more than 3-4 people and it should be every man for himself
June 16th, 2011 at 1:55 PM
I once saw a fb post by someone who said “don’t come into my restaurant and waste my time if you will tip less than 20%”. So I don’t come into the restaurant. I double the tax (9.25%) in TN, then round up, and add on only if service was great. I can’t tolerate waitstaff who think they deserve a tip for nothing, or are really crappy and expect a big tip. I drink a ton of water when I go out to eat, and if you keep my water filled up, you are getting a good tip. If I get one glass the whole night, the fuck you are getting 20%. For our wedding weekend when we had 20 people going out one night with like 10 diff checks, I gave her like a 100% tip because she was a great waitress and I wasn’t sure what everyone else gave.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:58 PM
I’m a big fan of having friends that you don’t have to worry about it because it always evens out. If you are worried you spent $2 more on your freaking friends, get friends you care about more than that.
Though if it’s bigger amounts, I have a couple cheap friends that I have to ask about paying me back from when I picked up a round of golf, and I hate that. I can’t stand owing ppl money, and don’t understand how people don’t make it a priority to pay them back.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:59 PM
I think I still owe Sportsgal money from the Cup winning thing last year. However, I was told part of our tab would be comp’d because she knew the owners!
/not cheap
//pays his own way, just didn’t have cash that day
///our tab was like $300
June 16th, 2011 at 2:05 PM
I liked this thread better than the one with the pegging.
Buncha youngsters up in here though, splitting checks and drinking at bars.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:05 PM
You do? Well I could use some money so fork it over, buster.
I can guarantee you for a fact I never told you our tab would be comp’d, Mr. I Was Invited and I’m Bringing My Weirdo Roommate Even Though He Wasn’t.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Your monogrammed towels must be a pain in the ass to sew.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:13 PM
I did bring a friend. He paid more than his share. I’ll buy you lunch or something SG. I think I owed like $10 or something.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:16 PM
As long as B happens, A ain’t no problem. And also as long as the friend isn’t annoying as fuck.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:20 PM
Not from what I remember… you don’t have to buy me anything, I was just kidding.